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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by dcAA
While US sells lots of cheap miles to customers, I doubt they compare to how many miles UA has sold to Chase. I suspect that UA's devaluation has more to do with the fact that UA stopped its partner award blocking, while simultaneously making it possible to book awards with almost all partners online.
Depending on who you believe, there's talk that UA may have reinstituted StarNet blocking on top of the devaluation.
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