FlyerTalk Forums - Card selection assistance

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Originally Posted by joelmeu (Post 8259550)

And dollars are the ultimately flexible point scheme (and you can invest them as you earn them).

I forwarded this information to my coworker who has a similar spend as I do and prefers cash.

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Originally Posted by mia (Post 8259697)

UA makes this impractical. Only the Chase Mileage Plus cards offer $1 = 1 mile. Every other USA-issued card has been eliminated or crippled to protect Chase from competition. Starwood comes closest, but it's only $20000:12500 miles. I don't know anything about the nitty gritty of Star Alliance status or award availability, but you would have increased transfer flexibility if you credited your UA flying to US (or another Star carrier).

I've heard US is pretty hard to redeem with and has less inventory than other partners (like UA) for * alliance redemption, but I'm sure that varies for different routes. I do debate switching to US quite often being based in CLT. At my status with United I get 100% redeemable miles. The equivalent status on US does not get 100%, but rather 75%. My flying right now is actually US credited to United.