Hilton not accepting UA after midnight
Mar 21, 2003 | 11:51 am
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Have no personal info on this, but there is a suggestion that United to Diners Club might be also under threat or indeed cancelled:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/018549.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/018549.html
Mar 22, 2003 | 10:46 am
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The abruptness of the shutdown of the UA redemption windows (both HH and DC) is regrettable in that it feeds panic in the frequent flier community. People who felt reasonably comfortable holding their mileage balances may then start a "run on the bank" which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, unnecessarily creating a redemption crisis. I sure hope this doesn't spread to other airlines.
Mar 22, 2003 | 9:00 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by nsx:
I sure hope this doesn't spread to other airlines.[/B]</font>
I sure hope this doesn't spread to other airlines.[/B]</font>
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Mar 25, 2003 | 4:56 pm
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Mar 25, 2003 | 7:11 pm
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Actually no. It seems thar by several transfers you CAN get MP miles into HH, on a final 1=1, but there is a cap of 50K a year into Diners from UA.
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Mar 25, 2003 | 7:19 pm
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To be more specific:
10,000 UA miles -> 10,000 DC points -> 5,000 AA/HA/CO miles -> 10,000 HH points
Some indeed may be happy with the half amount of CO/AA miles, but the way both of those are going lately .......
10,000 UA miles -> 10,000 DC points -> 5,000 AA/HA/CO miles -> 10,000 HH points
Some indeed may be happy with the half amount of CO/AA miles, but the way both of those are going lately .......
Mar 25, 2003 | 11:51 pm
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UA claims that there is an annual cap of 50k miles into a DC account, but in reality, there is not. I've transferred miles from 3 different family member accounts totaling over 200,000 miles a couple of years back into DC without any problems. Last year, as well as the current year, I've transferred UA miles into DC well over the 50k limit with no problems as well.
Mar 27, 2003 | 4:50 pm
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Unfortunately the UA to DC option appears to also have been shut down. When checking on a transfer that hadn't posted I called DC. I was told I would have to call UA as the transfer is noted on my DC account but was halted. Called UA and was told currently all transfer from UA to another program have been halted "currently".
Mar 27, 2003 | 6:37 pm
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Wow. Has anyone esle been advised of this, or might it just be a UA agent confusing it with iDine etc?
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Mar 28, 2003 | 10:10 am
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Unfortunately or fortunately depending on the view I was given some inaccurate info on the DC transfers. Today I called and was told no problem doing the transfer but also no explanation for why it had been rejected the first time. Time will tell.