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How to use my 100k points

Old Oct 11, 2016 | 10:28 am
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How to use my 100k points

I currently have around 110,000 ultimate reward points from my Chase sapphire card, and I'm looking for the best resources to see how far my points can go. I don't have any destinations planned, but it would be nice to see what is available.

I've searched around the internet and there are a few sites that explain how to get business and first class seats for a single person; however, I'm more interested in what I can get for my wife and me ( economy if that is the best we can do).

I know that you can transfer your points to various partners, but is there a place, table, or chart that will tell me 'you can go to xx for xx points with xx airline'?

Im fairly new at this and there's a lot of info, so just looking for the best place to start....
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Old Oct 11, 2016 | 10:46 am
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Originally Posted by semidevilz
... is there a place, table, or chart that will tell me 'you can go to xx for xx points with xx airline'?
You can see a list of Ultimate Rewards transfer partners HERE.

Most of these airlines (excluding Southwest) belong to one of the three international airline alliances:

Skyteam
OneWorld
Star Alliance

Any airline in an alliance can offer award travel on flights operated by all of the airlines in the same alliance. This means that you can use UR points to travel to essentially every destination served by any of these airlines. This does NOT mean that you can transfer points to all of those airlines. For example, to travel on American Airlines you would need to transfer to British Airways, and redeem according to the award charts and fees published by BA (not by AA).

100,000 points will not be enough for two business class intercontinental round trips. It may be enough for two economy class intercontinental round trips. I suggest that you figure out where you want to go, and when, and then ask for specific help if you cannot work out how to redeem.
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Old Oct 12, 2016 | 8:51 am
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Old Oct 12, 2016 | 1:34 pm
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Originally Posted by semidevilz
I currently have around 110,000 ultimate reward points from my Chase sapphire card, and I'm looking for the best resources to see how far my points can go. I don't have any destinations planned, but it would be nice to see what is available.
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I know that you can transfer your points to various partners, but is there a place, table, or chart that will tell me 'you can go to xx for xx points with xx airline'?
Frequent Flyer Programs (FFP) are not equal nor simple to understand.
There is no simple look up table for award cost(miles-points) vs earning vs award surcharges

Frequent flyer miles are not equal to earn or burn between ffp’s. 10,000 frequent flyer miles in 1 ffp may get you a longer award flight than 15,000 frequent flyer miles in another ffp. Each airline FFP has different rules for using (burning) those miles/points for awards and different copay $$ fees. And then there are award cash surcharges with some ffp’s/routes/airlines. With awards taxes are the same for all airlines for the same route and class. Award surcharge can/are different.

Awards assistance tools
Use at your own risk. These may not be up to date. (These are not recommendations)
If a multi segment award check the rules/cost carefully. With some ffp’s it can 2 or more awards.
Some awards/airlines/routes can have cash surcharges, in addition to real taxes.
-AwardAce: Compare Award Redemptions Across Airlines In Seconds -->http://www.awardace.com/
-Economical Excursionist's Tools to compare Frequent Flyer Mile Redemptions --> http://www.flyermiler.com/
-http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ast-miles.html --> http://www.awardhacker.com/

Credit card transfer links
UR http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chase...mes-rules.html
and others
MR http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...l-program.html
TY http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/citi-...-partners.html

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Old Oct 12, 2016 | 1:59 pm
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I'd echo what mia said above. Throw some ideas out of places you might want to go and then we can help point you in the right direction.

UR has a number of strong partners and options (and the CSR also carries the 1.5 CPP benefit as well) so there are a lot of directions you can go.

TPG (and I'm sure other bloggers) have a few articles that might give you some ideas of whats possible with UR: http://thepointsguy.com/2016/08/best...ewards-points/ #5 and #7 might be of particular interest if traveling for two and if if you are unlikely to accumulate additional UR or don't have miles/points built up in another program

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