Turn Your Wallet Credits into Mileage Plan™ Miles
Oct 11, 2020, 6:26 pm
#91
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2012
Programs: Delta Gold, Alaska Gold 75K, LATAM Black
Posts: 3,393
I learned of the first round around the last day (~Aug. 26) and read somewhere that only people who had agreed to receive email offers had gotten it. So I logged in and changed my NO to YES on email offers, then hoped prayed for another round, which happened today. I was stuck with a $188 wallet which I had been keeping alive since 2017 by buying, extending, and cancelling non-penatly tickets. So I happily converted the whole thing because I live in Charleston SC & rarely go to Seattle! So now I have 13K + 19K = 32K miles toward the 35K needed for a round-trip to the Caribbean on AA!
Oct 11, 2020, 10:56 pm
#92
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: Alaska 100K - MM, defender of shoes on the carpeted bulkhead 4ever, AA LT PLT, Hyatt Glob, HH Dia
Posts: 7,447
same. I would be at about 1 million miles and absolutely no place I can go. I’ll use my wallet funds eventually... 2025?
Oct 11, 2020, 11:30 pm
#93
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,397
At this point, I am long WN Rapid Rewards points for shorthaul domestic travel because THEY allowed conversion of travel funds to points, so bulking up on a good program for international longhaul J/F awards didn't seem like a bad complement to that.
Oct 12, 2020, 1:55 pm
#94
Join Date: Aug 2018
Programs: AA Exec Plat, Bonvoy Platinum, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 621
If you use the funds to ticket something and then cancel it, do you get a new expiration date or do you retain the original expiration date? I'm thinking about the worst case scenario of it getting close to summer 2021 and travel for the second half of the year still looking dicey; I'd feel better about just sitting on the funds if I can book and cancel in June 2021 to get a June 2022 expiration date.
Oct 12, 2020, 2:27 pm
#95
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Programs: AA EXP 1MM, UA Silver, HHDmd, MBvLTPLT, PCAmb/Dmd, HYT Dis
Posts: 1,579
Was on the fence but decided to convert $613.60 for 61,360. My credit expiration was July 2021. Currently assuming winter and next spring travel will still be by car -- so earliest possible flights for my family will be August 2021. But even if they extend the expirations another year, have so many credits to use on other airlines. And even if they devalue figure it will come back to about even.
Oct 12, 2020, 3:18 pm
#96
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Bay Area California
Posts: 395
I totally took advantage of this offer. An AS mile is usually worth about 1.5 cents and up. With this offer it is 1c/mile - which does not come around often. So after cashing in ~$800 I have ended up with 400K miles but i can think of many ways to use them in 2021 and beyond. Let's cross our fingers that the redemption deals on F JP / CX etc will not go away.....
Last edited by HAF; Oct 12, 2020 at 3:18 pm Reason: clarity
Oct 12, 2020, 5:14 pm
#97
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: San Jose, California, USA
Programs: AS 100K, UA MM, AA MM, IC Plat Amb, Marriott Gold, Hilton Gold, Hyatt Explorist
Posts: 3,146
I've been going back and forth over this for the past few days. On one hand, it's a good deal for the purchase of miles, but on the other hand, I feel that I already have a lot of miles that I can't effectively use right now.
Although I did receive the email invitation, since yesterday the Web page to convert miles repeatedly errors out with "Something went wrong, please try again later." I think that's a sign that I should sit tight for now and use the wallet funds in 2021 to help make status....
Although I did receive the email invitation, since yesterday the Web page to convert miles repeatedly errors out with "Something went wrong, please try again later." I think that's a sign that I should sit tight for now and use the wallet funds in 2021 to help make status....
Oct 12, 2020, 5:59 pm
#99
Join Date: May 2001
Location: San Francisco/Bangkok
Programs: Alaska 75K United 1K
Posts: 1,409
Ive been going back and forth
My wallet funds expire Mar 15 2021
Pro brings me up to 200K miles
and no plans to fly as of now
Con Is alaska going to restore much of SFO and OAK service thats been decimated?
SFO MSY? gone for good?
SFO BWI?
OAK-LIH/OGG/HNL/KOA?
SFO-HNL
i wonder if these are gone for long term?
My wallet funds expire Mar 15 2021
Pro brings me up to 200K miles
and no plans to fly as of now
Con Is alaska going to restore much of SFO and OAK service thats been decimated?
SFO MSY? gone for good?
SFO BWI?
OAK-LIH/OGG/HNL/KOA?
SFO-HNL
i wonder if these are gone for long term?
Oct 12, 2020, 7:04 pm
#103
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: PDX
Programs: AS MVP Gold 100K
Posts: 2,329
Oct 12, 2020, 7:14 pm
#104
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: BLI
Programs: Alaska Million Mile Flyer, Marriott Lifetime Titanium Elite
Posts: 3,195
If you use the funds to ticket something and then cancel it, do you get a new expiration date or do you retain the original expiration date? I'm thinking about the worst case scenario of it getting close to summer 2021 and travel for the second half of the year still looking dicey; I'd feel better about just sitting on the funds if I can book and cancel in June 2021 to get a June 2022 expiration date.
Oct 12, 2020, 7:16 pm
#105
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: BLI
Programs: Alaska Million Mile Flyer, Marriott Lifetime Titanium Elite
Posts: 3,195
That's why I only converted 50% of my Wallet balance. But then again, I had $1100 in the Wallet, and that was excessive for my travel plans for 2021, companion cert or no.