Chase does not check your relationship. You need to choose Other and then it would bring up input areas for you to input the info required.

For your sister's account to yours, the transfer is initiated from her UR account to your UR account.

Ok, great! Thanks for the information. Didn't realize the Freedom card had it's own UR account but I guess that makes sense. Time for me to buy up all her Freedom Points :)

Yes, Freedom has its own UR program which is inferior than the Sapphire Preferred's UR program naturally since Freedom is a 0 fee card versus Sapphire has annual fee.

You can see the difference when you log in from different cards.

Yea, I read about the comparison/synergy between the two cards on TPG's website. I'm tempted to get the Freedom card myself and also open a checking account but then that's another checking account I need to maintain a minimum balance. Plus I'm still not a 100% sure if the Sapphire Preferred card is the fee card I want to keep. Still up in the air deciding between that and the AMEX SPG and PLAT cards...so many fees haha. Plus I fly mostly AA and with the BA devaluation coming I'm not sure the Sapphire card would be as useful for me to transfer to OW. Sorry I know I got slightly off topic.

Just noticed that in the UR transfer partner page, UA has been taken down. For people who don;t know what I am talking about, UA was up for several days but not really functional. I think they will need some time to sort it out but I am pretty sure UA will be a partner.

Another note is that my bookings through UR did earn me x3 points correctly. I booked AA and DL last month and points were posted once the statement closed.

Is there a price premium for booking through UR vs. airline or aggregate sites like priceline? I know with AMEX Travel there is usually a slight premium.

I booked a flight last night, no extra fees.

Awesome thanks. I also have the Premier Rewards Gold AMEX which gives me 3X points on airfare anywhere so I'll probably stick with that for now. But I probably won't keep it thanks to it's steep $175 fee so I might switch over to Sapphire card then. Sapphire seems to keep getting better. Definitely going to be a tough decision between that and my AMEX SPG card as far which fee card I keep.

I got instant approval on-line less than 3 seconds :) , just took over a week to get that heavy ... credit card.

Mine came in 3-4 days (I'm in San Francisco).

KE is New Transfer Partner
 

Chase added Korean Air as transfer partner. It's good news that Chase is adding more transfer options.

You do realize that this is mentioned conspicuously in post #1 (dated 7/19/11), right?

Unless AMEX gets some new *A transfer partners in there it's as good as cancelled for me. I think TPG suggested they add US Airways and I concur. That would really be an improvement from where they are at now.

Even though I mentioned the AMEX PRG card at the end I was actually referring to the AMEX SPG card. The SPG card has plenty of *A transfer partners including US Airways but of course it doesn't have any bonus categorties and only earns bonus points staying at Starwood category. So I will need to see how my work travel will be before I make a decision on which to renew or keep. Plus I have a couple years history with AMEX and if I cancel my Platinum card along with my PRG I want to keep the SPG to keep my history even though I probably could downgrade my Platinum or PRG to a no-fee green card I believe.

Yeah, I'll pick up the SPG card soon.