Fly Nonstop Between NYC And Tel Aviv For 33.6K Points In Coach, 50.4K Premium, Or 62.4K Business When You Transfer Citi Points To Qantas!

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Earlier today I wrote about the 25% bonus for transferring points from Citi to Qantas.

You can also transfer Marriott points to Qantas at a 60K:25K ratio.

Qantas partners with El Al and is a great way to book award travel to Israel as they don’t charge any fuel surcharges for travel on El Al.

As you can see from this miles expiration post, Qantas points won’t expire as long as you earn or redeem 1 mile every 18 months.

To book with Qantas, just login on Qantas.com from a computer and select “Use points – Classic Flight Rewards only.” Searching for JFK will include Newark in the results:

Newark to Tel Aviv for 78K Qantas points+$9.60:

You can get 1,250 Qantas Points for every 1,000 Citi ThankYou points that you transfer by 4/13.

With this promo that means a transfer of:

• 34K Citi ThankYou points will become 42.5K Qantas points, which is more than enough than the 42K Qantas points needed for one-way coach award ticket between NYC and Tel Aviv.
• 51K Citi ThankYou points will become 63.75K Qantas points, which is more than enough than the 63K Qantas points needed for one-way premium economy award ticket between NYC and Tel Aviv.
• 63K Citi ThankYou points will become 78.75K Qantas points, which is more than enough than the 78K Qantas points needed for one-way business award ticket between NYC and Tel Aviv.

How does Qantas point requirements compare to El Al?

El Al Matmid points are hard to compare, so for simplicity sake, I’ll multiply their requirements by 50 to convert it into a number that is easily comparable with regular airline miles. You can transfer 50 AMEX points into 1 El Al point, so that ratio will make sense for a comparison.

Of course that doesn’t account for fuel surcharges that El Al adds onto their flights. Those are estimated in the chart below, though won’t always be exact.

The El Al rates in the chart below are for Executive members. A transfer of just 5,000 AMEX points from the US AMEX Membership Rewards program to El Al’s Matmid program will earn El Al executive status for a year. Points transfer instantly from AMEX to El Al, though it takes about a day after the transfer for the executive status to take effect on your El Al Matmid account.

El Al will devalue Matmid yet again on 4/1/19, so I’ve included rates under the current program and the future program rates starting 4/1/19.

The chart below includes rates for round-trip travel, though both programs allow for one-way travel at half of the round-trip rate.

Not all routes offer a premium economy option, so those have been excluded from the chart below.

Prices vary by travel season with Matmid points, so cities are broken down by season.

It’s worth noting that Miami-Tel Aviv flights don’t show up on Qantas site for some reason, so you would need to call Qantas to book that route.

• The 1st column is the amount of Citi points you’ll need to transfer for a round-trip award when transferring with a 25% bonus.
• The 2nd column is the amount of Qantas points you’ll need for a round-trip award.
• The 3rd column is the amount of Matmid points you’ll need before 4/1 for a round-trip award, multiplied by 50 in order to show the number of AMEX points you would need to transfer for the award.
• The 4th column is the amount of Matmid points you’ll need as of 4/1 for a round-trip award, multiplied by 50 in order to show the number of AMEX points you would need to transfer for the award.

Will you transfer Citi points to Qantas with a 25% transfer bonus?