United No Longer Partnering with Points.com
 

Went to check to see what options I had for converting MP points to gift cards. Well, turns out, today was the day that United cancelled partnership.

Via Points.com:

United Mileage Plus has made the decision to no longer participate on Points.com for Redeem, Exchange, or Trade. If you have further inquiries regarding this decision, please contact United Airlines Mileage Plus directly.

Wonder what this means...

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A501 Safari/9537.53)

Thats okay. A bit annoying because sometimes I like to trade TO United. Rates are Godawful anyway.

I suspect it means that Chase is tightening it's choke hold on UA. They really don't like customers getting UA miles at favorable rates from other partners.

I wonder if they'll offer that option on united.com the same way delta's redemption for gift card works with Skymiles on their website

United MileagePlus and points.com
 

It appears to go well beyond what you are seeing. As of several days ago, accumulated miles from a MileagePlus account no longer appeared on the points.com landing page, and adding a MileagePlus account was no longer an option.

With this development—and, the fact that Southwest Airlines and points.com do not have a relationship which allows a flyer to track miles—I find that their site is losing substantial value as a tracking tool. Who will next drop off the summary page?

I'm not sure I follow, as I'm not sure who ever got anything at 'favorable' rates on points.com.