GUWonder

Why are you assuming that you are now allowed to get up to $2700 in value again on a 90k award? Is it by getting a Chairman or Smith Barney card or some other way?

iahphx

Check out the new related thread that documents a 3 cent award.

But the later data looks less promising. Still, I guess everyone needs to try!

Any insight as to my original question, though?

flamentch

Thank you for all that participated in this thread.
Just for your information, I called TYN this morning to inquire about the change to $ 1,800 for 90 K.
After I pressed # 1 to get the Travel Reward desk, got on hold 10 min then was transferred - after an other 20 min hold - to an other rep more savvy.
The woman confirmed the change to $ 1,800 - she says Citi did it a week ago - She also said that those who are earning points via a linked Smith Barney account still get $ 2700.
Since I have Citi investment with SB, I inquired if I could get it. She said that the system does not show a linked SB account.
So I went to my Citi/SB invest banker and asked to open a "Financial Management Account". That's a $ 125 fee. I signed the paper work and was told that it takes few days to get this processed.
On line at TYN it says imply that the "FMA card" - a MC - need to be enrolled. So that's the one I am pressuring to get.
Last, I was told by the TYN woman that best time to call and do not get the hold is early morning at 8 AM EST.

mzx

I am in the NYC region and given all the airline options here I don't think I would have a problem using any of the carriers. I have 80K miles, but it seems safer to buy up to 90K biz to keep it entirely domestic (sounds like most intl. fares carry more risk of not being transferable to domestic, etc.).

Would it be safe to say after reading all these posts that the top options for ease of electronic tickets and vouchers are probably 1) CO Refundable 2) Delta non-refundable?

milemission

Please explain more about 1) International to domestic and domestic to international,
2) AA and UA

Thank you!

gv111

Do you know if having a Smith Barney Premier pass card will also qualify?

alfiepaes

Has anyone been able to find non-refundable CO tickets to Hawaii for 140K TYPs ? I'm having a hard time finding these. Almost all the tickets are fully refundable. Based on some earlier posts, I'm a bit leery of booking refundable CO tickets as these may get refunded back to the original form of payment instead of an e-cert.
Has anyone here booked a fully refundable ticket thru expedia/TYN and got a refund as an e-cert ?

Thanks in advance.

ynguldyn

The voucher is the second page of the ticket book.

enigmatic

Sigh I give up 1800$ here I come.
Do we have to pay the taxes associated with the fare?

sy7

I just redeemed a domestic RT ticket (20K points) to close out one account.

The agent will first quote you the taxes that include the 7.5% excise fee. However, it was really easy to ask them to charge you only the expedia taxes (they need to get approval from a supervisor, but that seems automatic). This basically gives you flexibility--if you find a fare that shows as ~$430 on expedia, by all means pay the 7.5% excise fee yourself since it will make it under $400. For fares that show as $398, there is no need to pay the ~$25 7.5% excise fee.

The expedia displayed taxes for fares to Hawaii (or for international fares) are the same as the TYN taxes, so you don't get this flexibility.

enigmatic

I am utterly confused by delighted?? I booked EWR -- YVR and cancelled it?? I called them and I got disconnected. But when I looked my flight says:

! Your itinerary cannot be retrieved because it has been cancelled. You may use the portion of your ticket that has not been flown towards a new trip by selecting the Change Flight link below. A change fee may apply.
This reservation is Cancelled.

It says that an ETC will be sent for the remaining amount after I book a flight.. happy days!~

No CHANGE fee either

I still don't know how long the quasi ecert would last, quasi as in all you do is type in your confirmation # and last name and a credit for about 2000$ comes up.. not secure IMO.
TIA

EDIT: I guess I caught them while they were changing my itinerary, I was on the phone... so they do have the ability to refund the itinerary instantly to the confirmation number. I specifically asked for an ETC though and they said okay its taken care of but be careful... they didn't even have my address, how would they have any idea where to send it to!!!

So I gave them my address and took down the Reps name I hope I get my ETC soon. First thing I will do it to book a weekend trip to CALI on it! 500 extra miles for booking online now too!

friedablass

I believe it's one year.

Edit to add: The $ was stored under your confirmation and since it was a refundable fare the difference between your new and old booking could have been refunded to citi easily - good thing you did it over the phone and asked for an ETC. However, you should have gotten the PIN on the spot and asked for your address to mail it - if they didn't give it to you on the phone they can still change their mind and 'be nice' and refund.

mcgahat

I noticed this on my booking yesterday. I was surprised when the taxes and base fare matched what was online. I actually got caught short (or over I guess) since I searched for base fares slightly above 1K but found an alternate option pretty quickly.

milemission

I redeemed two domestic RT ticket (20K points) that listed as $298 each in expedia last year (before I know about this and the lower I could find was south west $250). Total tax and fee came up to $92 for both. I asked about the tax and fee and was told they could not be reduced.

So did you just ask them to add the tax to the ticket price?
Thanks!

milemission

Which airline was that? Thanks!