Originally Posted by
craigthemif
Alaska or United. 50% more miles goes a long way, unless you've discovered a real sweet spot.
But if you've moving up the scale to a nicer hotel, you might want to consider just going for one of the real top-end hotels that will only cost 20K Starpoints per night from August until December. Forget the miles...
Actually not just the high end SPG properties, but also how many hotel nights you may need and at what point costs, and how much are the balances in your various FFPs.
After spending some time earlier today to go over some countries / destinations to see how the charts look like - now and after August 1st - it seems to me for our travel needs, keeping a good chunk of points for hotel stays might work better for us than redeem as many TPs as possible, despite the huge devaluation of TP. Would still redeem 1 TP but it is going to Aeroplan versus the most popular AS. I am not comfortable with the CX availability trend as well as the long over due devaluation on both CX and JL charts. With our current AS balances enough to cover 2019 and beyond, we should be in burn mode instead of add mode with the how the things currently are going at AS.