JetBlue Points match for Elevate members
Jun 25, 2016, 10:24 pm
#47
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If you live in a Jet Blue city, it's a great deal, I think. Eventually Virgin miles will become AS miles, in all likelihood. AS has already made their recent major deval with Emirates F, so another deval soon isn't as likely, IMO.
For me, if I'm going to transfer SPG points to airline miles, I'm transferring to AS. That's just me. Since that's the case, this opportunity makes sense for me. I think the chance of AS making a better than 1:1 transfer ratio with Virgin is better than another deval. My 2 cents.
For me, if I'm going to transfer SPG points to airline miles, I'm transferring to AS. That's just me. Since that's the case, this opportunity makes sense for me. I think the chance of AS making a better than 1:1 transfer ratio with Virgin is better than another deval. My 2 cents.
But I've overloaded on SPG miles that I'll want to whittle away before the merger does whatever it will do to them, so I see them going to airlines anyway. This accelerates that a little, but gives me a nice bump in the process.
Frankly, Hyatt's status match really worked for me, and I'm shooting for Hyatt Platinum this year since I like it so much, so that means I'm burning far fewer SPG points.
Jun 26, 2016, 5:31 am
#50
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Don't forget the Cathay deval there also.
But I've overloaded on SPG miles that I'll want to whittle away before the merger does whatever it will do to them, so I see them going to airlines anyway. This accelerates that a little, but gives me a nice bump in the process.
Frankly, Hyatt's status match really worked for me, and I'm shooting for Hyatt Platinum this year since I like it so much, so that means I'm burning far fewer SPG points.
But I've overloaded on SPG miles that I'll want to whittle away before the merger does whatever it will do to them, so I see them going to airlines anyway. This accelerates that a little, but gives me a nice bump in the process.
Frankly, Hyatt's status match really worked for me, and I'm shooting for Hyatt Platinum this year since I like it so much, so that means I'm burning far fewer SPG points.
Jun 26, 2016, 7:12 am
#51
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Don't forget the Cathay deval there also.
But I've overloaded on SPG miles that I'll want to whittle away before the merger does whatever it will do to them, so I see them going to airlines anyway. This accelerates that a little, but gives me a nice bump in the process.
Frankly, Hyatt's status match really worked for me, and I'm shooting for Hyatt Platinum this year since I like it so much, so that means I'm burning far fewer SPG points.
But I've overloaded on SPG miles that I'll want to whittle away before the merger does whatever it will do to them, so I see them going to airlines anyway. This accelerates that a little, but gives me a nice bump in the process.
Frankly, Hyatt's status match really worked for me, and I'm shooting for Hyatt Platinum this year since I like it so much, so that means I'm burning far fewer SPG points.
Having said that, I'm not hesitant to make a transfer like this for a deal like this. I can see us transferring a good portion of our Starpoints to airlines before the merger anyway. I manage a group of accounts with collectively over 1M Starpoints, so to make a single 40K transfer here isn't going to make much of a dent in our stash.
Jun 26, 2016, 8:42 am
#52
Join Date: Jun 2016
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I got my an email confirming I'm enrolled in the points match. I sent in my request around 6PM EDT Friday and heard back at 12:18AM EDT Sunday. Looks like there definitely is someone there doing matches over the weekend or maybe they've outsourced it?
Jun 26, 2016, 9:15 am
#53
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Thx for the data point. Still waiting here...
Jun 26, 2016, 10:07 am
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On the Cathay issue - I didn't realize that the deval from Alaska was a mistake. So ignore that. They had changed the award chart, but I guess that turned out to be an IT problem, not a deval. Too bad for me and Alaska - it caused me to not credit miles there recently, even though it wasn't correct.
Jun 26, 2016, 11:12 am
#57
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Do you have a link for your data point?
Jun 26, 2016, 11:38 am
#58
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It was a comment on VFTW, most likely from a toll as several people report being approved with no segments on VX.