Want input on 2 things:
1) I'm at 4/24 right now until next May, so if I want back in the game before then, I have to get the CSR first. I was going to wait a while to get it as I don't have any travel purchases to make for a bit, and I'm not even halfway through my current year of CSP that I paid annual fee for, but I'm sick of waiting to get the CSR before I can keep churning Alaska and get that Barclay AA.
Do I need to move all my CSP points over to my INK and cancel my CSP before applying for the CSR?
2) I'm down to 26K SPG, with nothing on the horizon as far as using them or earning a bunch more. AA is again doing the transfer bonus where I could flip 20K SPGs to 29K AAs.
Assuming I won't have any need for those SPGs until they get converted to Marriott points, good to use them to get extra AAs now before I expect they'll become way less valuable after the Marriott conversion?