Originally Posted by
madbrain
I have yet to see anything that makes sense in terms of the Chase UR points really being worth more than the base 1.5 cents. It does not appear to be the case when transferring to partners and redeeming for economy tickets. And those awards' availability tend to have limited inventory and blackout dates.
Doesn't UR transfer 1:1 to United?
So when I booked a business class round trip to Alesund Norway from LAX with 140k UA miles (originally reserved as AC via Toronto both ways across the pond, but a day out I was able to change the outbound to an LH nonstop to FRA), when I was considering a $3000ish LH premium economy ticket as an alternate backup in case I couldn't get it with miles, how is that not worth
at least 2+ cents?
(Now, I didn't transfer UR to UA, I already had more than enough UA miles. But if UR:UA is 1:1, what's the difference whether I had actually transferred or not?)
I generally don't use miles for economy flights, so I doubt I see cpp worse than that on my typical redemptions. Though the cpp is harder to calculate for most of my travels where if I couldn't get a business class redemption with miles, I simply wouldn't go on that trip at that time (because I can't afford to pay cash prices for most of the business class trips that I fly). So how exactly do you value "priceless" in cpp?