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Capital One has made big improvements to its loyalty program over the years. Currently, Capital One boasts 22 total transfer partners (18 airline and four hotel programs). Of these, points transfer to 18 programs at a 1:1 ratio. Although the list of Capital One transfer partners features few familiar U.S.-based airline programs, you can still redeem your Capital One miles for incredible value for flights and hotels — even for award flights on U.S. airlines.
Whether you're just getting started with the Capital One miles program or want to stretch your miles further, let's review the best Capital One miles transfer partner options.
- Earn 75,000 Miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening
- 5X miles on hotels, vacation rentals and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel
- 2X miles on all other purchase
- Fee credit for Global Entry or TSA Pre✔® (up to $120)
- No foreign transaction fees
- $95 annual fee
- 5X miles per dollar on purchases through Capital One Entertainment
- 5X miles per dollar on hotels, vacation rentals and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel
- 2X miles per dollar on all other purchases
How We Picked the Best Capital One Transfer Partners
To determine the best Capital One transfer partners, we considered four factors:
- Transfer ratios: Most Capital One transfer partners offer a 1:1 transfer ratio. However, five programs transfer at less favorable ratios — EVA Air Infinity MileageLands, Accor Live Limitless, Emirates Skywards, Japan Airlines JMB, and JetBlue TrueBlue. Additionally, there is one hotel program — Preferred Hotels — that transfers at a 1:2 ratio, doubling your points. Otherwise, all Capital One miles transfer at a 1:1 ratio. Knowing your transfer ratios is important when considering the value of each transfer partner. You'll need to transfer a minimum of 1,000 miles.
- Competitive pricing: A strong transfer ratio only goes so far if award flights or hotel nights are overpriced. We also considered how competitively each program prices awards compared to other loyalty programs.
- Diversity of usefulness: We considered whether a program offers attractive prices on multiple trip options. Nearly every loyalty program has a few standout sweet spots, but programs with broader long-term usefulness ranked higher.
- Variety of benefits: Are there multiple perks and benefits within the program? As with the previous point, you can find one perk or benefit to nearly every hotel and airline program, but having multiple positive aspects helped us decide which programs came out on top.
Related: How To Transfer Capital One Miles to Airline and Hotel Partners: A Step-By-Step Guide
Air Canada Aeroplan
Air Canada's Aeroplan program may just be the most valuable Capital One transfer partner. As a member of Star Alliance, Aeroplan gives you access to valuable partner award flights with airlines like United, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, and more.
Unlike many of today's airlines, Air Canada still publishes award charts, which helps provide more predictable pricing. Further, it doesn't usually pass on carrier-imposed fees, which means you won't pay an arm and a leg in surcharges when booking award tickets.
Award charts
Air Canada uses hybrid zone-and-distance award charts. See all 10 award charts here (PDF link). Each chart corresponds to one of four regions, and all partner awards follow these charts.
Here's the chart for flights within North America:
Unfortunately, a handful of partners, including United, are now considered “select partners” in these charts and are subject to dynamic pricing. That said, I have used Air Canada to book United flights from LAX to EWR many times, and I've had no issues finding availability at a standard 15,000 rate, only slightly above the starting price of 12,500 listed above.
Taxes and fees
Air Canada does not pass on surcharges, so the taxes and fees on award flights are often much less than other programs. While award tickets booked through other programs can cost many hundreds of dollars in taxes and fees, tickets booked through Air Canada often cost under $100.
Stopover program
Air Canada has a generous stopover policy, costing just 5,000 miles. There are a few rules to keep in mind when booking a stopover through Aeroplan, including:
- Awards are priced per one-way flight
- Stopovers are only permitted for travel outside Canada and the United States
- Stopovers cannot exceed 45 days
- Aeroplan allows one stopover on a one-way award or up to two stopovers on a round-trip booking
This sweet spot lets you book an extended trip for just 5,000 miles more than a single-destination trip. For example, you could fly from Dublin (DUB) to Rome (FCO) for 12,500 miles.
Or you could add a five-day stopover in Frankfurt for just 5,000 more points.
To learn more about Air Canada Aeroplan and some of its sweet spots, check out our dedicated post.
Air France–KLM Flying Blue
Flying Blue, the combined Air France & KLM award program, is one of our favorite Capital One transfer partners.
Promo Rewards
Each month, the program offers Flying Blue Promo Rewards. These awards are 25% to 50% off typical pricing, available for one month, and typically include flights up to three months out. Specific routes are discounted and grouped into short, medium, and long-haul flights.
Flying Blue sweet spots
There are several valuable Flying Blue sweet spots, including on partner airlines like Delta. You can book a short-haul domestic U.S. flight for as low as 5,000 miles each way:
Alternatively, you can utilize partner Aeromexico to book flights to Mexico from 12,500 miles:
Or fly from Los Angeles to Mexico City for as few as 14,000 miles one way:
Other sweet spots come directly from Air France and KLM. Fly business class from the U.S. to Europe for just 60,000 miles each way. While the fees aren't cheap at ~$350, these fees can be lower than those of other carriers, where surcharges often exceed $500.
One thing worth mentioning: these 60,000-point flights can be harder to find, so we highly recommend using award search tools to help narrow down your search.
Flying Blue family account
In addition to promos and sweet spots, the program is also great for families. There are two important perks you need to know about:
- You can create a family account with two adults and up to six children. First, create a free loyalty account for each person. Then, you can transfer miles between family members, making it simple to track each person's account without having to log in separately.
- Award tickets for children ages 2–11 are 25% off when flying with an adult. This means that a family of four can fly from the U.S. to Europe for as little as 87,500 miles one way after you transfer Capital One miles into your account.
Take a look at this example of the child discount. All three of these options are for two adults and two children booked through Air France's website.
- The first flight is with Delta and costs 80,500 miles plus $184 in taxes.
- The second flight is part of Air France's Promo Rewards, which can be stacked with the child discount, making it just 64,624 miles, but the taxes are higher at $558.
- The third flight is priced at the standard rate of 25,000 points per adult and 18,750 points per child, with taxes also costing $558.
Having multiple options for points prices and taxes — and being able to stack discounts — is just one more reason to love Flying Blue.
Japan Airlines (JAL)
As of September 2025, Capital One miles can be transferred to JAL at a 2:1.5 ratio, making this popular program much more valuable. And yes, you're seeing that correctly — it's a sub-1:1 ratio. But we're still including it on our list of best transfer partners due to its sweet spot availability and flexible flight options.
Additionally, we've seen multiple transfer bonuses that make it a nearly 1:1 transfer ratio if you time it right.
Award calendar
One of the most notable reasons for inclusion on this list is that JAL opens its award calendar 360 days in advance, well ahead of many other programs that open 331 days out. This makes it easier to secure JAL's longed-for business-class seats, rather than waiting and hoping there are still seats available to book when partner airlines' calendars open a month later.
According to JAL's award chart, business-class seats start at 55,000 miles plus taxes and fees, which are typically under $200, from the U.S. to Japan.
However, those tickets can be hard to find. More often, you'll see tickets ranging from 70,000–100,000 miles, which is still a solid deal for these premium cabin experiences.
Stopover program
Adding to its value, JAL has one of the most generous stopover programs on the market. JAL calls it a multicity itinerary and allows you to book up to seven stops on round-trip tickets that include Oneworld alliance partners. It can be booked through your Mileage Bank account, under the Oneworld award tab, or through JAL's customer service phone number.
JAL runs a distance-based award chart, which means you can find some great deals. For example, a round-trip itinerary with partner airlines totaling 4,000 miles or less costs only 25,000 miles in economy. Let's say you live in Dallas and want to book a beachy adventure. You could book Dallas (DFW) to San Diego (SAN), then to Los Cabos (SJD), then back to Dallas. This totals approximately 3,100 miles traveled, making it just 25,000 JAL miles to book the entire trip. That's quite a steal.
Other things to know
There are some downsides and quirks to keep in mind as you search and book award flights through JAL.
- Your Mileage Bank account must be open for 60 days before you can book an award flight; however, that number goes down to seven if you're transferring miles from Capital One.
- The JAL website is a bit clunky and outdated, so we recommend practice searches to learn how it works before you're ready to actually book your flight.
- JAL award flights cannot be changed, but they can be canceled for a fee of 3,100 JPY, or roughly $20.
- Award flights must be booked at least 96 hours in advance online or 48 hours in advance by phone.
Wyndham Rewards
This list wouldn't be complete without talking about one of Capital One's hotel partners. Wyndham Rewards may not be known for the glitz and glamour of its luxury rivals, but it shouldn't be ignored. Wyndham has one of the largest hotel footprints of any hotel loyalty program. No matter where you go, you'll likely find a Wyndham property to rest your head.
One reason Wyndham Rewards is among the best Capital One transfer partners is that nightly redemption rates fall within three award categories on the award chart:
- 7,500 points
- 15,000 points
- 30,000 points
Below are examples of good Wyndham redemptions. However, it's not always worth redeeming points with Wyndham. When cash rates are low, using points is less attractive. As a general rule, you're looking for redemptions that save you more than 1 cent per point when transferring Capital One miles to Wyndham.
Wyndham Alltra Punta Cana All-Inclusive Resort
This all-inclusive resort is a steal when booked through Wyndham Rewards for 30,000 points per night, rather than the $500-plus cash rate. That's a redemption value of 1.70 cents per point, well above our recommended 1 cent per point.
Baymont by Wyndham Gatlinburg on the River
Off-season rates can be under $100. However, during peak travel times, such as leaf-peeping season, rates exceed $250. Instead, book for 15,000 points per night, a 1.53 cents per point redemption.
Wyndham isn't Capital One's only hotel partner. Back when JAL was added as a transfer partner, Capital One also added the Preferred Hotels I Prefer Hotel Rewards program. Points transfer at a 1:2 ratio, which seems great at face value. However, the Preferred Hotels program features mostly luxury properties, and award nights often run upwards of 75,000 points.
Even with the favorable transfer ratio, you're still looking at a lot of points per night. Furthermore, Preferred Hotels has a significantly smaller global footprint, so properties are harder to find. For these reasons, we still think Wyndham is Capital One's best hotel transfer partner.
Lastly, regarding hotels, you can transfer Capital One miles to Choice Privileges, but the 1:1 transfer ratio leaves something to be desired. That's because you'll find a better transfer ratio to Choice from both Citi (1:1.5) and Wells Fargo (1:2) — much better than what Capital One offers.
How To Earn Capital One Miles
So how do you earn Capital One miles to use with these valuable partners? Consider any of the following credit cards for their welcome bonuses and earnings on daily spending:
- Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card
- Capital One VentureOne Rewards Credit Card
- Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card
$0
- 5 Miles per dollar on hotels, vacation rentals, and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel
- 5 Miles per dollar on purchases through Capital One Entertainment
- 1.25 Miles per dollar on every purchase, every day.
$95
- 5X miles per dollar on purchases through Capital One Entertainment
- 5X miles per dollar on hotels, vacation rentals and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel
- 2X miles per dollar on all other purchases
$395
- 10X miles per $1 on hotels and rental cars booked via Capital One Travel
- 5X miles per $1 on purchases through Capital One Entertainment
- 5X miles per $1 on flights when booking via Capital One Travel
- 5X miles per $1 on vacation rentals booked via Capital One Travel
- 2X miles per $1 on all other eligible purchases
If you have a small business, you have even more ways to earn Capital One miles:
$95
- 5X miles per $1 on hotels, vacation rentals and rental cars booked via Capital One Business Travel
- 2X miles per $1 on other eligible purchases
$395
- 10X miles per $1 on hotels and rental cars booked via Capital One Business Travel
- 5X miles per $1 on purchases through Capital One Entertainment
- 5X miles per $1 on flights booked via Capital One Business Travel
- 5X miles per $1 on vacation rentals booked via Capital One Business Travel
- 2X miles per $1 on other eligible purchases
What makes these miles even better is that you can share Capital One miles with anyone, helping you combine miles for an upcoming redemption. Moreover, if you have a Capital One cash-earning card and a miles-earning card, you can combine your cash earnings with miles. Thus, any Capital One card can essentially earn miles.
What makes Capital One's cards stand out is the ability to earn higher rates on those “other purchases” than what you'll find on most cards. For example, the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card offers 2X miles on everyday spending, as well as 5X bonus miles on hotels, vacation rentals, and rental cars booked in the travel portal — a standard feature on Capital One's credit cards. It's also possible to earn miles with Capital One Offers.
Related: The 6 Best Capital One Credit Cards for Every Purchase
Bottom Line
Capital One miles don't expire, and multiple credit cards earn miles that can be transferred to a wide range of partners. However, we've highlighted four of the best Capital One transfer partners here. These provide excellent opportunities to redeem your miles for flights or hotel stays at outsized value.
But don't forget that you can also use Capital One miles to cover recent travel purchases on your card, helping you use miles for travel beyond flights and hotels. These fixed-value redemptions offer a simple option, but redeeming through the partners we've highlighted here can unlock a more valuable use of your miles.
“Although the list of Capital One transfer partners may not feature familiar programs like Air Canada or British Airways…” I was like, whoa, did those 2 programs drop Capital One? Well, I just logged into my Capital One account and it is showing that I CAN transfer my Capital One points to both Air Canada and British Airways.
Thanks for flagging that Stephen. That was an oversight in our update of this post and has been corrected now!
I see this was last updated in July 2023, but it doesn’t look like Turkish award chart is up to date. I don’t see 7,500 anywhere. It looks like 15.5k one way to Hawaii. Or can someone direct me in the right direction if I’m missing it?
Hi Leeann, are you looking here? https://www.turkishairlines.com/en-int/miles-and-smiles/redeem-miles/redeem-miles-on-flights/turkish-airlines-award-tickets/ You’ll see a part that says “domestic flights***” and that economy flights are listed for 15,000 miles, and the notes below say this is round-trip pricing. Thus, 7,500 miles for a one-way economy ticket within the same country. Hope that helps 🙂
Don’t they also partner with Turkish? I’d have to put them in the top given their extensive network and reasonable redemption rates. Fuel surcharges are fairly reasonable too.
Great deal if you are wanting a new credit card. Love the extra bonus points.
Not a fan of Capital One but more competition is always good.
Question though, firstly does booking award tickets count towards lifetime miles flown? Or do those need to be paid fares? (United specifically)
And secondly, what is that same answer if booking a United ticket using partner miles and not United miles?
Hey Jackson, great question. It depends on how you book. Award tickets booked through United or a partner program don’t accumulate lifetime miles. So if you transfer Cap1 to Avianca and book a ticket on a United-operated flight, that won’t count. However, you will accumulate lifetime miles by using Capital One’s fixed-value miles redemption feature. Just book your paid ticket and redeem Cap1 miles for a statement credit. More on that here
Really hoping to see Capital One Canada offer transfer partner options too!
I am looking to use points on Cathay Pacific but I don’t think that I would get the Venture card.
The Virgin Australia case is truly the wild card. Thanks.
Lifemiles, Wyndham rewards and Cathay Pacific are great partners with some intriguing possibilities. Lifemiles is the best Star Alliance partner for getting to Europe with out ridiculous surcharges. Wyndham has some surprisingly valuable redemptions like BOnnet Creek at DisneyWorld.
Etihad has some nice redemptions which makes it a top transfer partner for capital one!
How easy/hard is it to book Cathay round the world tickets?
Cathay’s Multi-Oneworld carrier awards are going to be a fair bit more complicated than the average award booking. The degree of difficulty is going to depend on how many stops you want—since you’ll need to find award space in your desired class of service for all segments of your trip. You can find the rules for these awards here.
Having done several trips of the same route, ANA First Class and Asiana Business Class (LAX-ICN) look like my favorite for now. I need to dig up my Capital One Card and see how many points I have left there–a forgotten activity during COVID. Thank you for the great article!
Thanks for the step-by-step instructions! So I followed them and I can confirm that the no-AF version DOES have the option to transfer rewards to partner programs. However that is where I stopped going down the rabbit hole, so I have no idea if the conversion rates are better for the Venture as opposed to the Venture One. When I finally cash in my rewards I’ll scope it out and report back.
Thanks for the follow-up! It should transfer at the same rates as the Capital One Venture. We haven’t seen any indication that the transfer rates would be different.
It is so sad to see Capital One continue to expand is product in the US, but a painful regression in Canada…
Sounds good but I do not need to have another credit card. Good partners but no one I really want to deal with right now.
CapOne is upping their game by adding some solid partners, but they still have a long, long way to go to be in the same league as Chase or Amex. They are nipping at Citi’s heels a bit here though. Hopefully they can keep adding partners over time and give the other cards a run for their money.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to do any oneworld round the world business class trip soon.
Thanks, this is an interesting post. One thing to consider is that Avianca miles can be purchased at around 1.2 cpm which means by using Avianca, you are getting 2.4 c per dollar spent. Is that the max value you can get out of Capital One miles ?
I think there are two ways to think about mile value. Your analysis above relates to what it would cost to buy those miles (albeit during an all-time best LifeMiles sale – most of the time it costs more to buy them).
I generally think of mile value as the amount saved on travel. We share the equation we use for our mile valuations in this post: https://awardwallet.com/features/awardwallet-mile-valuations/
This is a great summary! Agree that Avianca has an awesome partner program
Wow. This is really useful. I have a ton of capital one rewards miles lying around and will utilize these options!
Time to consider Capital One Credit Card now!
Where can you find out more information about the other transfer partners not listed in this blog post?
We have a full guide to the Capital One transfer partners in this post: https://awardwallet.com/credit-cards/capital-one-rewards/capital-one-transfer-partners/
I thought Turkish was a transfer partner? 7,500 mile flights from Newark to Honolulu?
Yes, that is correct! We strongly considered putting in Turkish. Hawaii is still a great deal with Cap1 transfers. However, with the 1,000:750 transfer ratio, they aren’t useful for as broad a range of trips. Ultimately, we wanted to try to keep this post a bit shorter for folks who find so many options overwhelming.
@Erik, and I for one thank u for making the judgement calls nesssary to come up with such a short, quality clist of “the best” transfer options. It’s exactly what I rely on AW to do on multiple fronts. Sort thru the myriad of options and point me in the right direction.
Thank you for this overview. It’s definitely more complicated to search around for deals like this but it can really pay off.
Although I’m partial to Chase Ultimate Rewards seconded by Member Rewards, I think the “How We Picked the Best Transfer Partners” portion of this article is useful to everyone.
An unpopular opinion perhaps, however I am a big fan of Wyndham hotels
I just recently signed up for the Platinum card so I need to find your write up on that. CapOne is getting better but they’re still not there.
Hey Darren, congrats! Here are a few resources:
https://awardwallet.com/credit-cards/amex-membership-rewards/amex-platinum/
https://awardwallet.com/credit-cards/amex-membership-rewards/amex-platinum-airline-credit/
Thank you so much Erik!
Erik, a followup if you don’t mind. I asked on the page you linked but don’t even see my comment yet. Since I just signed up, am I eligible for the monthly PayPal credits?
Replied to the other comment (now published).
This used to be a vanilla essentially cash-back card that could only be used for travel redemptions. So I didn’t care.
Now it is the best travel card on the market.
Curse you Capital One for never granting me a card!
Those of you who can get this card should definitely do so. Before you get too many other cards so to be forever locked out of this one.
Does anyone know if the ability to transfer miles to partners is a benefit of the no-AF Venture One card? I have to no-AF card, and am trying to figure out if it’s beneficial for me to upgrade.
Based on everything we’ve seen, you should be able to transfer miles from the no-annual-fee VentureOne card to transfer partners. If you have the card, I’d love it if you could confirm this for us! If you log into your Capital One account, you should see a “rewards miles” balance. Clicking on that will get you into the Rewards section. On that page, you hopefully will see “Convert Rewards Transfer miles to rack up rewards with one of your travel loyalty programs.”
With that said, it may be beneficial to upgrade anyways to earn 2X miles on purchases rather than 1.25X. That’s a pretty significant step up in return.
Didn’t realize the transfer partners could be such a beautiful thing!
Transferrable currency is the best currency.
Don’t they also partner with Turkish? I’d have to put them in the top given their extensive network and reasonable redemption rates. Fuel surcharges are fairly reasonable too.
Yep! Only cut to keep it short & simple. Check out our guide to all the Cap1 partners for more: https://awardwallet.com/credit-cards/capital-one-rewards/capital-one-transfer-partners/
This sounds like a great offer. Do you know if this offer applies if I convert my VentureOne card to this Venture Rewards card?
Generally, product changes aren’t eligible for a new cardmember bonus. Some issuers do offer targeted bonus offers to change cards to select customers (esp. Amex). But I haven’t heard of Cap One offers of that nature. You could still get approved for the Venture as long as you haven’t opened a Cap1 card in the past 6 months