I'm looking at booking SFO-MDZ-SFO for a family member traveling mid-December and early January. We have AA and UA miles and Chase points (for a cash booking at 1.5 cents per point). Cash fare is about $2200 = 150k Chase points. UA non-saver awards are 130k miles, flying Copa with best connection via Panama City.
Has anyone here booked this route recently? Should we go with miles or just use Chase points to buy the cash fare?
CM had fares for around $700 RT a week or two back, I would look for that.. check out CM's website.
If you're going the mileage route UAs mileages are going up on November 1st, so I would book that sooner than later. Remember UA has flights via EWR now as well to EZE.. or look to route via SCL