topic Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced in Credit Cards

UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

Shadowfactor — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:10:24 GMT

United this morning quietly changed their websites and award FAQ. Partner awards charts will move to dynamic pricing on November 15 as well.

This was a suspected move when UA announced a change to their own chart, but at that time they stated partner charts would not be affected. Turns out this isn’t the case.

Chase UR will be seeing a devaluation in my book. UA was the only worthwhile program chase had for int’l long haul and now that partner bookings will reflect the crazy prices of Delta some day soon. Some trial bookings I did to Cairo have already increased 10K miles and they changes haven’t even hit yet.

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/mileageplus/awards/award-travel-updates.html

If you go to the last FAQ. It’s contained in there.

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:16:12 GMT

They will not stop until everything is 1cpp. Maybe this will encourage chase to do more bonus transfers. lol

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

wasCB14 — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:15:40 GMT

It definitely shrinks the set of situations where URs can beat MRs.

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Loquat — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:06:39 GMT

As much as I don't want it to be true...I believe that it won't be long for American does something similar.

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

redpat — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:23:03 GMT

At then of the day Amex MR is king.....Classic story of the Tortoise and the Hare.......

Rakuten is better than Chase's portal, so kudos to Amex for that coup and MR being able to be used w/ Rocketmiles is also a nice addition.

All these MR changes makes transfer bonus offers much more valuable.

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

wasCB14 — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:28:22 GMT

@Loquat wrote:
As much as I don't want it to be true...I believe that it won't be long for American does something similar.

I don't know exactly what has been confirmed, but there was a lot of chatter a few months ago (April-June) about AA going dynamic.

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K-in-Boston — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:37:50 GMT

I don't know know enough about Star Alliance (I'm a closet Delta fan but don't tell anybody), but is using a tranfer of URs to KrisFlyer miles with Singapore for United and other partners not still a decent option? Last I knew they were still using an award chart:

https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/pdf/ppsclub_krisflyer/charts/Star%20Alliance_Round-trip%20Award_Apr19.pdf

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:46:38 GMT

@wasCB14 wrote:
It definitely shrinks the set of situations where URs can beat MRs.

I don't actually see it that way, the airline industry point devaluation is happening everywhere, this makes two things more attractive for many, if not most, people:

1. transfer bonuses

2. an excellent fixed value .... like 1.5-1.6cpp of UR.

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

wasCB14 — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:29:47 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@wasCB14 wrote:
It definitely shrinks the set of situations where URs can beat MRs.
I don't actually see it that way, the airline industry point devaluation is happening everywhere, this makes two things more attractive for many, if not most, people:

1. transfer bonuses
2. an excellent fixed value .... like 1.5-1.6cpp of UR.

Amex does far more transfer bonuses.

Schwab Platinum gives me a 1.25 cpp floor in the form of cash deposits at Schwab. Not amazing in itself, but a lot of my spend goes on BBP where I earn 2x MRs. So for fixed value, I'll take that over 1.5 cpp on 1.5x with CFU/CSR.

I do have more off-category spend than many others do.

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:22:11 GMT

@wasCB14 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@wasCB14 wrote:
It definitely shrinks the set of situations where URs can beat MRs.
I don't actually see it that way, the airline industry point devaluation is happening everywhere, this makes two things more attractive for many, if not most, people:

1. transfer bonuses
2. an excellent fixed value .... like 1.5-1.6cpp of UR.
Amex does far more transfer bonuses.
Schwab Platinum gives me a 1.25 cpp floor in the form of cash deposits at Schwab. Not amazing in itself, but a lot of my spend goes on BBP where I earn 2x MRs. So for fixed value, I'll take that over 1.5 cpp on 1.5x with CFU/CSR.

I do have more off-category spend than many others do.

Here is the hope Chase does more bonus transfer too, .

BBP is a gem, I run business spending through it as much as I can. I do separate business and personal spending clearly, so I am not running everything through it. Plus lot of my personal spending does not accept amex, aye.

Re: UA Dynamic Partner Award’s Announced

Loquat — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 02:25:35 GMT

@wasCB14 wrote:
@Loquat wrote:
As much as I don't want it to be true...I believe that it won't be long for American does something similar.
I don't know exactly what has been confirmed, but there was a lot of chatter a few months ago (April-June) about AA going dynamic.

@wasCB14 I do remember some chatter about it now that you mention it. I just tried a google search and there hasn't been anything new and I'm hoping it stays that way. But what I did get this evening was an email from American saying that they're ending their partnership with Alaska Airlines starting March 2020. No more redemption on Alaska via AAdvantage and vice versa for Mileage Plan.

What's interesting is that they're still partnering on lounge access which is still a perk for AAdvantage Executive cardholders but it does suck that I won't be able to burn AAdvantage miles on Alaska as they have a couple of non-stop routes from here to Sea-Tac and San Diego that I use a few times a year.