Originally Posted by
ASA_1
this, plus the similar degradation for booking through third party websites (aka Concur when I travel for work), are giving me reason to look at other programs for my flying. When I fly internationally for work, I get to fly business class and always appreciated earning the class of service bonus. But now it’s capped at 25% when booked through concur (at least that’s how I’m reading it, and I’m happy to be wrong/corrected). So I reluctantly flew United this month to London, and I have to say… it wasn’t a bad experience.
Business class is capped at 125% EQM when booking partner rewards through sites not AS, not 25%.
I've been torn by my move to AS after UA made the recent earning requirement updates to their program. The grass isn't always greener. The fact that I can't book most partner itineraries via the AS website is a huge pain. Part of me believes this is a partnership issue where they haven't worked out the rates or codeshare part of the agreement, but part of it feels like just bad IT.