Devaluation Affecting Miles + Co-Pay Upgrades
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Devaluation Affecting Miles + Co-Pay Upgrades
Will the upcoming devaluation result in more miles being required to upgrade using miles + co-pay? Any chance the devaluation will result in diminshed R space or have any other adverse effect on the ability to upgrade using miles + co-pay? Thanks in advance!
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Anything is possible. But right now; its the same # of miles + copay to upgrade. This "devaluation" only affects *A award bookings; which while it sucks, i get from a business standpoint.
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AA charges 110,000 for round trip business class ticket on CX between N.America to N. Asia and
how much UA charge for the new rate on *A partners?
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The point is that the devaluation is not as whopping for UA metal (not that I or anyone like them).
Hence cash/co-pay/miles needed does not seem to be impacted. If they were, then logically, a GPU would
also then to be a higher fare class than W.
Last edited by aacharya; Jan 13, 2014 at 1:32 pm
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You said "only." That is not accurate. Also, I would hardly call 15-20% increases "marginal," particularly since they are now materially higher than AA's redemption rates for the same routes.
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Also 110k biz roundtrip is extremely difficult to find at least for the dates i looked on Aa.com between june and september.
It remains to be seen what AA's redemption rates will be after the merger.
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a] like the poster below you pointed out; i was talking about UA award metal. UA now charges close to what AA charges for their award flights. But thanks for reading carefully what i wrote.
Also 110k biz roundtrip is extremely difficult to find at least for the dates i looked on Aa.com between june and september.
Also 110k biz roundtrip is extremely difficult to find at least for the dates i looked on Aa.com between june and september.
And you can use 110000 aa miles for CX........
I am talking about CX award by using AA miles and you can't see or book CX award on AA.COM
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You can see and book them on BA using Avios though
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The changes to the United saver/standard award chart arent horrible. Basically in many cases theyre just matching the highest rates charged by other major US airlines. In many markets rates stay the same, and mostly were seeing increases of 2,500 to 7,500 MileagePlus miles one-way.
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Actually, mileage upgrades have received a HUGE devaluation because the upgrade fee doesn't count for PQD, which means while you're HALF paying for a business ticket, you're getting zero PQD credit for it.
Not good that your PQD balance can be drastically different based on whether you book a higher M fare and upgrade with miles or a lower L fare and upgrade with miles. Same expense, UA just shafts you on PQD for not playing the upgrade lottery if your upgrade has to waitlist.
Not good that your PQD balance can be drastically different based on whether you book a higher M fare and upgrade with miles or a lower L fare and upgrade with miles. Same expense, UA just shafts you on PQD for not playing the upgrade lottery if your upgrade has to waitlist.
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A number of these posts are irrelevant: the OP asked ONLY if the devaluation applied to, or affected, upgrades-with-co-pay. Nothing to do with the value of full award tickets.
So, the answer to OP is (as of right now) -- no change to any upgrade-with-co-pay.
So, the answer to OP is (as of right now) -- no change to any upgrade-with-co-pay.