Miles to Upgrade Issue
Jun 30, 2011 | 2:23 pm
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: HSV
Programs: Silver MileagePlus, Diamond Hilton
Posts: 696
Miles to Upgrade Issue
Just used miles to wait list for NJ to Orange County round trip. One way is the usual 15,000 miles but return is 17,500. I've never seen this before, why is one way more miles than the other?
Jun 30, 2011 | 2:28 pm
#2
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: DCA/IAD
Programs: UA*S/Club, Hyatt Plat, Marriott Silver
Posts: 485
http://www.continental.com/web/en-US...wards_2011.pdf
Jun 30, 2011 | 7:15 pm
#3
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: LAX/TPE
Programs: United 1K, JAL Sapphire, SPG Lifetime Platinum, National Executive Elite, Hertz PC, Avis PC
Posts: 47,227
15k to 17.5k is nothing - take a look at the major gouge for sub-W fares - it's now 20K miles each way, a whopping 5K increase!
Jul 1, 2011 | 5:13 am
#4
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Frozen in Carbonite
Programs: UA Aluminum 0.6MM, Bonvoy Life Sentence, Hyatt Eliteist, AA Super Plutonium
Posts: 2,878
Big devaluation of miles, but maybe ill get more EUAs now -- those silvers might think twice about wait listing when they have to fork out another 2,500-5,000 miles each way.
It's a lot harder to amass those miles when you only have a 25% bonus.
It's a lot harder to amass those miles when you only have a 25% bonus.