What to do with UA Miles
Mar 27, 2003 | 4:15 am
#31
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Go to the UA forum and search under "chapter 11". There's plenty of material already posted there about their bankruptcy filing.
Mar 27, 2003 | 6:34 am
#32
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I know it is not a lot of miles, but I do believe that 25K (50K in some circumstances) may be protected by moving them to Amtrak's program. From there the miles may be moved to CO or Midwest Express (or what ever they are calling themselves these days).
Mar 27, 2003 | 9:32 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by El Boocho:
I know it is not a lot of miles, but I do believe that 25K (50K in some circumstances) may be protected by moving them to Amtrak's program. From there the miles may be moved to CO or Midwest Express (or what ever they are calling themselves these days).</font>
I know it is not a lot of miles, but I do believe that 25K (50K in some circumstances) may be protected by moving them to Amtrak's program. From there the miles may be moved to CO or Midwest Express (or what ever they are calling themselves these days).</font>
Mar 27, 2003 | 8:54 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cAAl:
Unfortunately, you got that backwards. You can trasfer CO miles to Amtrak Guest Rewards (and from there, into UA or other partners), but you cannot transfer UA miles to Amtrak. It's a one-way street.</font>
Unfortunately, you got that backwards. You can trasfer CO miles to Amtrak Guest Rewards (and from there, into UA or other partners), but you cannot transfer UA miles to Amtrak. It's a one-way street.</font>
Mar 28, 2003 | 9:54 am
#35
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There are people ( see my post on Coupon Connection) still interested in UA miles as they can redeem them for LH-intra-europe.
The best redemption strategy for UA if you don't want to fly yourself now is to echange them for an later-time award on another airline
The best redemption strategy for UA if you don't want to fly yourself now is to echange them for an later-time award on another airline
Mar 28, 2003 | 2:51 pm
#36
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How does one do that concering the above post about transferring an award to an international carrier without having a specific date requested. Sorry for my ignorance. I am just a leisure traveller with about 150,000+ ua miles and my husband with 200,000+ ua miles. Thanks
Mar 28, 2003 | 3:17 pm
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First, I do not have any crystal ball knowledge about UA's future, as some seem too.
We are holding on to our UA miles and using them are usual. Yes, well more that 1/2 million. I will likely "go along" on a trip to London in June (likely will pay full points, for Bus or FC, as the dates are never firm until the last minute with my wife's travel). We also have booked our trip in FC to MEL in August. It is likely she will compile enough miles this year to replace those awards, so we will still have a pile.
We passed on the Hilton transfer of any, as we have a large cashe of those points transferred from AMEX to Delta then to HH.
So in answer to the orignal post, you can just ignore the growing risk of airlines Chapter 7's as one alternative, and keep everything crossed. There is the case that no airline will go Chap 7, or even if, that they may have there ff program taken over by someone else with some compromise value assigned.
In our case, we do not take this as a head in the sand decision, but a best case result for us.
We are holding on to our UA miles and using them are usual. Yes, well more that 1/2 million. I will likely "go along" on a trip to London in June (likely will pay full points, for Bus or FC, as the dates are never firm until the last minute with my wife's travel). We also have booked our trip in FC to MEL in August. It is likely she will compile enough miles this year to replace those awards, so we will still have a pile.
We passed on the Hilton transfer of any, as we have a large cashe of those points transferred from AMEX to Delta then to HH.
So in answer to the orignal post, you can just ignore the growing risk of airlines Chapter 7's as one alternative, and keep everything crossed. There is the case that no airline will go Chap 7, or even if, that they may have there ff program taken over by someone else with some compromise value assigned.
In our case, we do not take this as a head in the sand decision, but a best case result for us.