https://loyaltylobby.com/2019/01/19/united-airlines-mileage-plus-now-unable-to-book-singapore-airlin...
Wanted to point this out to those in the community that this could become an issue for those with UR points hoping to fly to Asia using United Miles.
I just upgraded my fiancée’s CSP -> CSR to finish building up enough points for a partner J award through United to Asia. If this pans out, I will see it as a huge devaluation and it will cause me to downgrade the CSR to a freedom as soon as the AF posts.
Let’s have some discussion on how you were able to redeem UR points for greater then 2CPP. I’m interested to see how everyone redeems UR points
Wanted to point this out to those in the community that this could become an issue for those with UR points hoping to fly to Asia using United Miles.
I just upgraded my fiancée’s CSP -> CSR to finish building up enough points for a partner J award through United to Asia. If this pans out, I will see it as a huge devaluation and it will cause me to downgrade the CSR to a freedom as soon as the AF posts.
Let’s have some discussion on how you were able to redeem UR points for greater then 2CPP. I’m interested to see how everyone redeems UR points
That sounds bad but I don't think its really that bad for me since i never really use UAL miles to book either SQ or TG. If i am going to fly SQ i will use their own program which is available on UR,MR , or TYP. I have never found the need to book TG so it probably doesn't affect me as much.
It does stink that a lot of UR partners have been devaluing recently especially the star alliance partners, I have been also unhappy with KE being dropped, adding of jetblue wasn't a real good replacement. I don't know how comfortable I would be going full MR . I will have to see how everything plays out.
To be fair sq doesn’t even have a lot of availability with their own krisflyer miles for ewr-sin
This is another example of why people should not earn points without specific redemptions in the future in mind. Changes like these can happen suddenly. I rarely book redemptions with united miles and I don't think I have ever used Chase URs towards united. For what it is worth SQ is increasing their redemption costs on their own metal and there is a rumor of an upcoming marriot devaluation. All these things chip away at the value of Chase URs. Between 5/24 & limiting people to signup bonuses once every 48 months or whatever on the sapphire family the ability to earn large point balances via signup bonuses with chase have taken a major hit
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@Anonymous wrote:
Wouldn’t call it devaluation quite yet.
It seems temporary due to backend issues:
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/united-temporarily-blocks-award-bookings-on-singapore-thai-tap-air-portugal/
I agree; let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is what United is saying about the situation: “Some partner award tickets are not being confirmed by select airlines’ reservations systems. In order to minimize the impact to customers, we’ve temporarily removed the ability to book on these specific carriers until this is fixed.”
Sounds like a temporary problem rather than a permanent devaluation...time will tell.
@ridgebackpilot wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Wouldn’t call it devaluation quite yet.
It seems temporary due to backend issues:
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/united-temporarily-blocks-award-bookings-on-singapore-thai-tap-air-portugal/I agree; let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is what United is saying about the situation: “Some partner award tickets are not being confirmed by select airlines’ reservations systems. In order to minimize the impact to customers, we’ve temporarily removed the ability to book on these specific carriers until this is fixed.”
Sounds like a temporary problem rather than a permanent devaluation...time will tell.
This is why I have the word possible in the subject line. Hopefully it’s only a temporary problem.
How does everyone here redeem their UR points ? I’m looking for different ideas on how to use the UR points I’m building up