Sep 11, 13, 7:42 am
Last edit by: SpammersAreScum
Prestige cardholders: the current value of points is $0.016 if redeemed for flights on American Airlines, or $0.0133 on other airlines.
The redemption value on all airlines changes to $0.0125, on July 23, 2017. This is the same value as Citi Premier and Chase Sapphire Preferred. Discussion is in this thread:
Citi Prestige benefit and reward changes
If the TYP portal is not showing the lowest fares you've identified on Google, an OTA, or the airline directly -- call Citi TYP and then ask to get Connexions on the line. Doesn't cost extra to do book that way....but will take longer and manual bookings will NOT show up in your TYP MyTrips tab.
TYP portal pricing should be verified for every flight, it cannot be trusted to show the lowest fare. Also scroll over all the way, since some carriers are not on the main screen, and may have lower fares/points than their preferred carriers.
The redemption value on all airlines changes to $0.0125, on July 23, 2017. This is the same value as Citi Premier and Chase Sapphire Preferred. Discussion is in this thread:
Citi Prestige benefit and reward changes
If the TYP portal is not showing the lowest fares you've identified on Google, an OTA, or the airline directly -- call Citi TYP and then ask to get Connexions on the line. Doesn't cost extra to do book that way....but will take longer and manual bookings will NOT show up in your TYP MyTrips tab.
TYP portal pricing should be verified for every flight, it cannot be trusted to show the lowest fare. Also scroll over all the way, since some carriers are not on the main screen, and may have lower fares/points than their preferred carriers.
TYP flight redemption: Prestige $0.0133 - $0.016/pt until 7/2017, Premier $0.0125/pt.
Feb 26, 11, 1:47 pm
#46
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I cannot think of any reason that Citi or the site operator would intend to offer discounts of this magnitude on tickets purchased with money. It is perfectly plausible that they intended to increase the redemption value of the points from $0.01 to (say) $0.0125, but because they allow mixed points + cash redemptions their implementation has an unintended effect.
Feb 26, 11, 2:48 pm
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Feb 26, 11, 2:51 pm
#48
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Yes, and that's the value I have seen on my own exploration of the redemption engine, but my speculation is that (if anything) Citi only intends to raise the redemption value to $0.0125 to match American Express and Chase, but the implementation has been botched.
Feb 26, 11, 2:54 pm
#49
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For those with copious amounts of flight points, it makes purchases go to 2.66 cents per dollar spent. If you spend on groceries or gas, it bumps up to 5.3 cents per dollar spent.
I wonder how long this will last.
Feb 26, 11, 7:05 pm
#50
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My account, with the regular PP card without an annual fee, does not give the 25% discount. My husband's account, which has the Amex Platinum linked ($125 annual fee) along with a regular PP, gives the 25% discount.
Feb 27, 11, 6:42 am
#51
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Is this only valid with PPE holders? or do the regular non-annual fee users also get this discount?
For those with copious amounts of flight points, it makes purchases go to 2.66 cents per dollar spent. If you spend on groceries or gas, it bumps up to 5.3 cents per dollar spent.
I wonder how long this will last.
For those with copious amounts of flight points, it makes purchases go to 2.66 cents per dollar spent. If you spend on groceries or gas, it bumps up to 5.3 cents per dollar spent.
I wonder how long this will last.
Feb 27, 11, 8:13 am
#52
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I tried to book a multi-city trip in Asia too, I think one of the city in any segment has to be in US, so I was able to book: DFW-ICN and MNL-DFW as two multi-city segments. But it failed when you tried to add ICN-MNL segment in between, or even tried to book it as one-way. So, my theory is that it requires all segments have US city involved. I am not sure if this is the same experience other people have on this board.
Feb 27, 11, 11:15 am
#53
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And to add a layer, could you use CP with this ticket?
Feb 27, 11, 1:48 pm
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Feb 27, 11, 4:32 pm
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Feb 27, 11, 5:16 pm
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The programmers messed up. They wrongly thought the 25% increment on the 0.01 means the same thing as a 25% reduction from the ticket price. Going up from a 1, does not equal to coming down from a 1, percentage-wise. I have seen people constantly trip on this type of math.
Feb 27, 11, 7:36 pm
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The programmers messed up. They wrongly thought the 25% increment on the 0.01 means the same thing as a 25% reduction from the ticket price. Going up from a 1, does not equal to coming down from a 1, percentage-wise. I have seen people constantly trip on this type of math.
Last edited by GUWonder; Feb 27, 11 at 7:54 pm
Feb 27, 11, 10:12 pm
#58
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15% applies when you call Spirit Incentives and use your TY credit card to pay for the trip. Here 25% applies when you use part or all of the TY points to pay for the trip, which is redeemed through thankyou.com.
Feb 27, 11, 10:17 pm
#59
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Which credit card to charge?
If I want to pay part of the ticket price when redeeming TYP, do I have to use the registered ThankYou credit cards, or any card? When charged on credit card, does it show ThankYou/Citibank, or airline directly? I wonder if I should use my airline-affiliated credit card to pay for part of the ticket.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Feb 27, 11, 11:25 pm
#60
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Citi getting burned on thank you points for flights? Botching an implementation?
I'm stunned. Just stunned.
