If you fly a lot and are not loyal to one airline, you can end up with small amounts of air miles scattered amongst several air miles rewards programs. This makes it difficult to redeem the miles. Fortunately, there are ways of converting those small amounts of air miles into one program, enabling you to cash in your air miles for a rewards flight or upgrade.
Use a free Hilton HHonors rewards account to convert your air miles into HHonors points and then into another airline's miles. Miles must be converted into HHonors points before conversion into other airline's miles.
Convert your air miles into Diners Club Rewards points and then into another airline's miles. As of March 2010, American Airlines AAdvantage miles are the only miles that can be converted to Diners Club Rewards points. There are 19 options for converting Diners Club Rewards points into air miles.
Sign up with Points.com and convert your air miles directly into another airline's air miles program. As of March 2010, 21 airline rewards programs are listed with Points.com. With Points.com you can convert directly from air miles to air miles.
