United Miles
While I have gone over a lot of my findings on United Stopover and Routing Rules, I have never gone into the nerdy details of what is possibly driving United's engines like this post.
In 2016 when they changed their program I spent a month testing stopover routes and tricks and discovered what I think are some interesting tricks that apply just as much today. I highly recommend reading The New United Stopover & Routing Rules and the new post Good News In United Stopover Rules.
However, this post will not only go over those tricks but also explain United's pricing...
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While I'm going to publish a "Complete Guide To United Stopovers" soon, I wanted to first give some context about the current state of United stopovers.
United plans to make some major changes by getting rid of their award chart in November and going to dynamic pricing (where you don't know the rate until you search). Although it is currently unclear whether or not they plan to do the same for partner flights, or if it will just be United flights. (See details about United Eliminating the Award Chart)
In the meantime, they seem to be testing this by making some domestic flights...
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This may not be as interesting as the Flying Blue Award Maps or the Alaska Miles Award Maps, where maps are better visual displays than Award Charts...
But it's a visual display of both award prices and region definitions at the same time. Hopefully, it's also useful or interesting to someone else.
Below are 3 United Miles Award Maps - economy, business and first.
Read moreChase cards are incredibly generous and the Chase Sapphire Preferred has become nearly every traveler's favorite credit card. There are a number of transfer options, and many posts on things like Hyatt Rewards often come with a recommendation of transferring from Chase UR points. But my recommendation nearly all the time is to transfer to United.
United has gotten a bad rep after the devaluation causing business class and first class prices to go up, sometimes by a lot. Yet, I think you can waste a lot of points transfers to anything except United, most of the time.
Let me explain a...
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