birdiedouble

I normally try to stick to Southwest but I was looking to book a trip to Montana later this year and signed up for this card using this offer. Bought the tickets and two days later the $250 statement credit posted. It will also help me avoid $120 in baggage fees on that trip alone. My nearest Southwest city is at least a 90 minute drive so this card might have me on United or at least considering them more than I do now.

halamadrid

Any recent data points as to how long the card takes to arrive? I was just told that they couldn't expedite b/c something needs to happen on the United end first. Thanks.

P.S. This was probably targeted, but I was able to get 50K miles after $3K spend + $100 statement credit after first purchase (AF waived for the first year). Offer (small banner near the top of the search results page) came up while I searching in order to make an award booking (oddly, the banner only came up when I was searching for J seats, but not Y [searches in Y offered the 25K + $250 mentioned in another post]). I wanted to get business card, but the statement credit and extra benefits swayed me.

cheaptom

Wife and I are Private Clients, and we each received a 50K offer mailer offer to open the Chase United Explorer card. Neither of us has had this card in about 5 years. Wife has a current Sapphire.

We are both at about 20/24 from opening various Amex and Citi credit cards. So my question is: Is this mailer targetted, like a form of pre-approval? Or does Chase just mail these to anyone, without pre-knowing their 5/24 status?

I hesitate to go into a branch to ask, because I tend to get reps who know less about the 5/24 rules than we do here. "Oh, let's run an application. I'm sure you'll be approved as a Private Client with 800+ credit score" Never works.

sdsearch

It takes a different amount of time to arrive depending on where you live. Here in SoCal, it always takes over a week for me with all banks (including Chase) that send through normal mail, but it might take fewer days if you are significantly loser to the bank's mailing location for new cards.

pallhedge

Unfortunately, this is the answer.

cheaptom

Yes, not surprising. The truly unfortunate part to me, based on several real examples, is that if I went in to see a Chase private client banker in person, they would tell me the exact opposite of what you just said.

halamadrid

Thanks. I was just wondering whether the Explorer card took longer (in terms of Chase sending the card) because of this background channeling taking place with United first. My experience in terms of shipping time for cards lines up with yours.

pallhedge

Private Client bankers seem to exist in some Utopian universe where facts aren't important.

sdsearch

I don't think this backchanneling takes "long", it just is a step that prevents them for expediting, since they have a "semi-expedite" (ie, wait they day or whatever until the United confirmation is done, then expedite). They apparently can only "expedite now or never", and for all you know the backchannel with United might take only 20 minutes longer but by that time you can't call in again to "expedite", and before that you can't get on a list to "expedite". So I don't think it causes a material delay, it just happens at a later step and thus eliminates the only "expedite" option that they have.

(That's assuming that the line about United wasn't simply an excuse to explain why they didn't want to offer you an expedite option on this card.)

halamadrid

Thanks again, The card did arrive within a week of approval and everything happened exactly as you outlined. I guess a made a whole lot out of nothing, but when I called for the expedite the agent made it seem like a drawn out process.

Matt Rich

Just got approved for this card.

When does the increased award availability kick in? From some screenshots I've seen, it should show in the details of a flight, but so far nothing.

findark

As soon as your mile expiry says "thank you for being a Chase cardmember".

SuperKirby

It all depends on the routes and availability. Most of the time where I travel I will see the bold statement pop up.

Matt Rich

Ok, so today I see the statement beneath a bunch of flights. Nothing seems to have changed, but I'm guessing that the flights I'm looking at aren't yet at a place where I would need this feature.

Maybe closer to the flight time.





It seems like the feature is more availability, not fewer miles, so I guess not.

Ali380

Can this card be product changed up to the Club card?