A weak spot of Capital One’s miles program is that it’s lacked a U.S. airline transfer partner for some time — but that’s just changed, with Capital One recently re-adding JetBlue as a transfer partner.
While JetBlue has one of my least favorite mileage programs in the U.S. and the partnership right now isn’t greater (1,000 Capital One miles only gets you 600 TrueBlue points), Capital currently has an offer where if you transfer 1,000 Capital One miles you’ll earn 5,000 bonus TrueBlue points, for a total of 5,600 TrueBlue points.
Since I’m sitting on about 275,000 Capital One miles, I decided it was worth taking advantage of this promotion even though I’ve never redeemed TrueBlue points before and haven’t flown JetBlue in years. My rationale was that since TrueBlue points never expire, the chance that I’ll use the extra 5,000 points in the next five years was enough to justify spending the 1,000 Capital One miles.
The transfer, along with the bonus points, only took about 10 seconds to post to my JetBlue account, which was a great user experience on my end.
While I normally am against speculative transfers, I think the 5,000 point bonus is high enough that I’d encourage you to take advantage of this deal if you have extra Capital One miles.
