canadiancow

I called again, and it took a supervisor, but I have them back. Apparently one of the changes to the ticket was done quite manually, so it lost the FRC association.

Pretty good experience too. The call dropped, and he immediately called me back. Then he said there was a long wait for a supervisor, so he let me go and called me back when it was done.

psiachp

Just had my Chase statement close yesterday finishing the 50K spend. How soon did you see any evidence of acknowledgement that you're now SE? T

psiachp

Just wanted to flag that two days after my Oct statement close (where I'd hit the $50K spend), I'm now seeing the LevelUp Benefit (so I guess I'll be SE on 1/1?)

newbie_flyer

For my 50K certificates, I'm trying to understand the downside of booking Flex fare over Latitude fare. I get that Latitude fares are instantly refundable so the certs go back to my account. But for Flex fares, it looks like I can do an any-time change to a different ticket without a fee. And I can do that for different airports/dates, correct? If so, it sounds like my cert is always needs to be attached to a ticket, but that I have the same flexibiility as a Latitude fare in that I can change it to whatever future ticket I want. What am I missing?

Adam1222

due to a schedule change, a flight I had booked using a combo of miles and welcome flight reward was cancelled and refunded today. I see the miles, but I don't see the welcome flight reward anywhere in the refund receipt, and it is not available for use in booking. Someone above suggested waiting 72 hours, but is that tracking currently or should I already assume I need to call?

TalkingPoint

It's weird that they still haven't figured PYB out yet and people are about to hit the second year AF on a benefit that was promised to them at signup and told would be available early 2022.

Adam1222

Update: I indeed needed to call back. The second agent first didn't know what I was talking about, but figured it out, got the "help desk" involved, and the certificate was restored my account after I got off the phone

MillennialMiles

I don't think it will be exactly on 1/1 so then we get to double dip on the benefits for 75k then again once you get bumped up to SE.

gigafishing

I'm also hopeful for the opportunity to try to double-dip, but I'm not counting on it. My gut feeling is that Aeroplan is a bit more on top of it than last year, but given this is the first year that this new benefit will be applied, who knows what will happen.

EJRofChicago

Can confirm that I had a Flex fare booked with my 50k certs (for myself and spouse), and I was able to change the booking to adjust our travel date (though identical routing), and only had to pay the difference in points (so agreeing with you there was no change fee). Unfortunately it did require a phone call, and the agent seemed a little uncertain of all the back end steps involved, but when all was said and done our booking was moved to the newly preferred travel date.

kayexalate

I wonder if the same would hold for adding an additional leg within the same travel zone to an existing itinerary? I'm looking to book from SFO-CAI with 4 seats in business as soon as they're released (360 days). . However the final plan is to actualy just do a 2 week "stopover" in CAI and then add on for 5k a CAI-AMS flight (So final itinerary would be SFO-YYZ-CAI (stopover)-AMS. I don't want to wait for the CAI-AMS flight to open up and book the whole itinerary at once because I'm worried the one or all of the 4 biz seats from SFO-CAI will be gone by that time

Do you think If I'm using certs + miles I can get first book the SFO-CAI portion (currently at 97.8k in business) , then when the CAI-AMS opens up 2 weeks later call in to get the CAI-AMS flight added on and pay the fare difference (strangely when I test it out its not just 5k more but more like 13.7k miles,, which is still ok by me).

gigafishing

https://onemileatatime.com/deals/cha...ransfer-bonus/

Who else is going to be double-dipping UR points transfers to Aeroplan in November? If you have both a UR card and Aeroplan card you can convert 250,000 UR points to 350,000 Aeroplan with the 30% transfer bonus and the 10% Chase Aeroplan card bonus.

kayexalate

thanks for pointing this double dip opportunity out. I do have some plans for travel using my Aeroplan miles so this timing works out well.

with the 10% chance or bonus for Aeroplan card holders it says it may take up to 72 hours or even seven days. Since that promo has been active for a while does anyone have any data points on how long the bonus miles actually take to post?

and if I am transferring over more than 100,00 UR points it seems like in order to take advantage of the 10% bonus. I need to do that in increments of 50,000 at a time instead of 100,000 at once.?

gigafishing

For the 10% bonus you have to transfer at least 50,000 points in a single transaction for it to trigger. You don't need to piecemeal it in 50,000 increments but if you do less than that you won't get the bonus.

kayexalate

awesome. I thought I read somewhere it has to be in 50k increments so I’m glad I can just do 100k at once.

Would be great if some one made an online calculator to determine how many miles I need to transfer with the double dip option to get the number of miles needed.