Frequent Miler on the Air · Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Citi has added Japan Airlines' JAL Mileage Bank to its Thank You Rewards program, offering a 1:1 transfer ratio for cardholders of the Strata Premier, Strata Elite, or Prestige cards. This move comes amidst recent changes to Citi's transfer partners, including devaluations of its transfer ratios to Choice Privileges and IHG's I Prefer program.
“City Adds Valuable Transfer Partner, Japan Airlines.”
“So City realized that and said, whoa, hold on, let's back up the truck here. And they, they reduced the transfer ratio to Choice Privileges. So it's no longer 1 to 2. Now it's 1 to 1 and a half.”
“Well, but the bigger boo probably out of that. Well, I don't know if it's even bigger. But they also reduced the transfer ratio to I prefer and instead of being 1 to 4, that's now just 1 to 2. I thought that was a much bigger boo.”
“Well, now they've added Japan Airlines as a transfer partner and transfers are 1 to 1 for those of you with all of those cards that we just mentioned. That's a big yay. That's big yay.”