@Anonymous wrote:I recently booked a United flight through the Chase portal because it was a better deal and I see better deals through the portal all the time. The flight through United was $300 round trip, or 50K miles. The same itinerary through the Chase portal was $253 or just under 17K UR points (I get 50% additional value on UR points booking through Chase). I don't feel like transferring points at 1:1 to another travel partner is always a better deal, many times not. I must be the one missing something.
For economy flights sometimes its not usually the best deal . If you try and redeem for international J or F flights its usually a lot better deal i feel. I just used some UR to UA to fly eva business RT. used 160k UR for 4800 flight so not bad value.
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I recently booked a United flight through the Chase portal because it was a better deal and I see better deals through the portal all the time. The flight through United was $300 round trip, or 50K miles. The same itinerary through the Chase portal was $253 or just under 17K UR points (I get 50% additional value on UR points booking through Chase). I don't feel like transferring points at 1:1 to another travel partner is always a better deal, many times not. I must be the one missing something.
For economy flights sometimes its not usually the best deal . If you try and redeem for international J or F flights its usually a lot better deal i feel. I just used some UR to UA to fly eva business RT. used 160k UR for 4800 flight so not bad value.
Yes. And with the CSR 1.5 (vs CSP 1.25) using UR points at the portal will be at least an OK option more of the time (avoiding the need to have award avaiilabilty, earn miles on the flight etc). But for international premium cabin, transfers is really the only way to go.