Originally Posted by
DanglyCables
My family (myself, wife and a 5 year old) are planning a 1 week trip to Ireland. I have 80,000 miles on United, and about 500,000 Chase Reward points. The Chase points can be moved to United a 1:1.
A search on the United site shows that we can book 3 business class tickets for 70,000 per person there, and 60,000 on the way back. That does sound like a pretty good price, compared to paying with cash
But the Aer Lingus site shows a business class ticket is 50,000 per person with off peak pricing. I believe United and Aer Linugs are partners, and I can transfer my Chase point to Aer Linuges as well. Can I make this trip happen for 300,000 instead of 390,000?
Thanks!
Welcome to FlyerTalk,
DanglyCables.
Just because United and Air Lingus are partners doesn't mean you can use the Air Lingus mileage chart, you could only do that if you had actual Air Lingus miles. With United miles, you have to use United's chart,
You always have to use the chart of the airline at which you're redeeming, not the chart of the airline which you're flying.
So it sounds like you're already finding the best redemption you can get with United miles (if you did an actual availability search, not just a chart lookup). I would think you might want to book it ASAP if it's a good redemption and a good routing for you, because it might disappear at any time.
Also, be aware that sometimes (in other cases) you can book with fewer miles but much higher fees. So always double-check the fees, not
just the mileage requirement, because the fees may make the redemption ridiculous. This is often the case, for example, with another Chase UR partner, BA, on trans-Atlantic business class redemptions they often have fees in the high hundreds of dollars.