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May 1, 2020 | 7:55 pm

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I think UA is the program I love to hate

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Originally Posted by uastarflyer

but what do all these credit card posts have to do with partner awards?

Stuck in front of a PC doing work for a while and then just hanging at at FT - got to do something and say something, even if inane .....

Fundamentally, miles are currency - you pay to get the card miles - when they devalue they raise costs for holders of cards who spend on them as well as people who get them from flying (a smaller and smaller part of the whole amount) .
I think even if you have to fly UA - no choice due to schedule or company, you still have a choice of spending to get value from cards - get cash

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Originally Posted by SunLover

At the new award level (and the nominal 2cpm cost) it is more cost effective to book a r/t revenue ticket and earn some miles while you are at it. You do lose the easy change of itinerary functionality though. SL

AND the miles you earn with the revenue ticket are also worth ~10% less now

Before you give up too easily, I have to admit - try using the same AA miles to go to EU - no space on AA only there on BA
On BA you get 350$ taxes each way min; or even 500 if coming back from UK

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Originally Posted by WindowSeatFlyer

Partner award from the US to Europe using AA miles: 57.5k miles
Partner award from the US to Europe using US miles: 77k miles
Yeah, I'm going to use my UA credit card instead of my AA credit card to collect miles.

UA miles so far had 5$ going out on UA and about 200-300$ coming back w APD
So going outbound use UA - better pay 22k miles vs paying 400$ more
Coming back use AA = 22k miles more expensive than paying 200$ extra taxes

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Originally Posted by jsloan

Of course this is dynamic pricing. I'm reminded of the recent topic about whether or not this was a good time to use award miles. It is always a good time to use award miles, because they depreciate constantly. This is just another example of that. I'm not happy that the prices are changing, but I'm certainly not surprised.

ZImbabwe almost did not do as much damage with their dollar devaluations

Last edited by WineCountryUA; May 1, 2020 at 8:25 pm Reason: merged consecutive posts by same member

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