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Old Nov 19, 2024 | 3:44 pm
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bunsofsteel
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NYC
Programs: DL, UA, B6
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Angry Difficulty of using Travel Bank credits

I tried to book a flight over a holiday for two members of my travel pool using a combination of points, travel bank credits, and a jetblue credit card. I'm a mosaic 2.

PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!

1) The website was criminally slow. I had to edit my wife's contact info every single time. It took minutes to click through the whole thing.
2) I tried to pay using points, but it said that my travel bank credits couldn't be applied. No explanation for WHY.
3) I called customer service, and they helpfully told me that you can only use two forms of payment. So if you have a $50 travel bank credit, and the taxes are $100 on the flight, you are SOL. I didn't want to pay $25 per ticket to have her book two flights to take advantage of a $50 travel bank credit that I was told was 'just like cash'.
4) So I broke the trip in half -- this was suggested on the website!. In one leg I paid cash + travel bank, and on the return trip I paid cash plus points. Again, I had to click through a billion slow screens trying to upsell me on products I didn't want,and in some cases couldn't use (like a hotel in my home city)
5) To avoid having issues with the seats getting taken, I attempted to check out at the same time from two tabs on my browser. The first flight went through, but I promptly got a fraud alert from the Jet Blue credit card complaining about the purchase that they suggested on the jet blue site.

So now I had to go validate myself and check out again.

TLR small travel bank credits are nearly useless. Don't settle for them! Jetblue website is way worse than DL or UA and much slower/quirkier. A better booking system would attract a lot more corporate / high end travelers.


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