Announced: SPG Flights -- use Starpoints for flights

[KeithMEL]

http://www.spgflights.com/travel/arc...TY_SPG_FLIGHTS

Starwood Preferred Guest has just launched SPG Flights, which allows SPG members to redeem their Starpoints on flights. Amount of Starpoints required for a ticket directly corelate to the dollar value of that ticket. Interestingly, tickets are booked as 'revenue' tickets and not as award redemption tickets. Tickets can be booked into economy, business or first class and on most major carriers. See above link for more details.

[Savage25]

Haven't looked at it in detail, but seems poor value for Starpoints at first glance, even with taxes and fees.

[jjpb3]

seems poor value for Starpoints at first glance, even with taxes and fees.

I agree. The figures confirm for me that hotel points are (given my preferences and constraints) best used for stay redemptions, and airline points for flight redemptions.

[milehighj]

Haven't looked at it in detail, but seems poor value for Starpoints at first glance, even with taxes and fees.

I agree. The figures confirm for me that hotel points are (given my preferences and constraints) best used for stay redemptions, and airline points for flight redemptions.

Yeah I second that. Personally the best value for me continue to be redemptions (cash + points or 5th night free) at Cat 4 and above hotels which normally cost USD300 and above per night.