Bruin1K

i meant in terms of united and flying benefits.

Howard

Please clarify - when you say "Manage Reservations", where did you go from there? Did you click "Redeem Upgrade" and then "Buy Up to United First"? When I tried that approach this week, it wanted to charge me $549 to upgrade, when a new ticket would have been only $177, and the upgrade was only $71. The $549 price happened to be the difference between the K fare I purchased and the B fare, but of course I can't be certain that's the pricing logic it used. With Change Flights, it wanted to charge me $271 ($71 + $200 change fee), so the only way to pay only $71 was to call (and even then, having to argue with them about GG BUYUP so they would waive the $200 fee).

I would love to be able to upfare on united.com using my Select card because of the PQMs for united.com purchases.

findark

Yes, that's correct, and correct about being the difference to a B fare. There's a pervasive bug where Premiers will see the difference to an M/B fare most of the time rather than cheapest available. Sometimes, however, you get lucky and see the right price there (IIRC I might not even have had status at the time). But I usually called and rarely had to wrangle agents that much to waive the change fee.

Bruin1K

I have the booklet for the benefit and nowhere it says there is even secondary coverage for rentals. Does anyone have written proof that the select card (not the platinum card) DOES HAVE rental insurance coverage?

emcampbe

It's the first benefit listed in the benefit guide I have for the Select, Auto Rental CDW. And definitely specifies secondary.

Bruin1K

It's weird. I just read the booklet cover to cover and no mention. Even the link that people have provided doesn't show anything

notquiteaff

Have you seen http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chase...11-1-13-a.html

It has a link to a benefits brochure from 2013 that still works and has the car rental benefits.

Bruin1K

Thanks! This is a completely different booklet than I have. Strangely I have this one for my explorer card but not the select card.

IADFlyer123

Reviving this thread. Just booked a United vacations trip on my MP select card. Anyone have any experience with such a booking? The airfares included are published fares and not bulk fares. So would I get 3x united miles? The CC entry shows United vacations and not United.com.

LHCVG

I've never had occasion to book UA Vacations travel, but IME everything that codes as "United" gets 3x. The issue is whether they deem "UA Vacations" to be a separate entity, like how Hilton sells their points via Points.com so you don't get the bonus for buying them, like you would if you bought UA miles on your Select card.

IADFlyer123

One can hope

WineCountryUA

UA Vacations is a separate company (an independent travel agency) unrelated to UA except that pays UA a fee for use of the brand. It is not UA.

emcampbe

this. I haven't booked through UA Vacations either, but there's about a 0% chance the select benefits of purchasing from United (3 x RDM, 1 x PQM on united.com) will be given if it's listed as United Vacations, especially if it's one line for multiple package items (I.e. Airfare and hotel). For TAs that book an airfare septately, at least the bigger ones often use the carrier's merchant account and so will look as if directly coming from United and will get 3 x miles on the select. But doesn't sound like that will happen based on the merchant description.

IADFlyer123

My statement closed today and I DID receive 3X RDM for my United vacations purchase. I will have to wait until March 31st to see if i did get my 5K PQMs. Keeping fingers crossed

LHCVG

Excellent! To the points above, it always gets tricky with these separate companies d/b/a for marketing purposes. But always good when it works out!