FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - United pushes JPM on Sapphire Reserve
View Single Post
Old Jul 4, 2019, 6:14 pm
  #264  
PsiFighter37
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NYC (Primarily EWR)
Programs: UA 1K / *G, Marriott Bonvoy Gold; Avis PC
Posts: 9,005
Originally Posted by 747FC
Will that be the headline...when UA no longer participates in UR? Or, creates a redemption rate that makes using UR-cards a less attractive alternative than UA cards (say 4 UR--> 1 UA).

Someone posted that Chase and UA have a six year agreement on their co-branded cards (IIRC). That agreement does not necessarily have anything to do with their UR agreement.

Stay tuned, the other shoe may drop sooner, if not later.
Sure, if UA wants to be the man that bites the dog (or if Scott Kirby feels like trying). Lowering UA redemption rates from UR would be the single-fastest way to kill that relationship.
PsiFighter37 is offline