United
Recently I wrote about ways around United's new status devaluation, and one of the ways is to fly on United's partners and credit to United. However, United not wanting anyone to benefit from their rewards program has had recent devaluation on partners.
But more importantly for people who fly United, and the best routes for their life or work is the question of what mileage program to credit United flights to. So I decided to make a chart this time for crediting miles.
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March 1st is around the corner and people are planning out their next status move, so it's about time I wrote something on United's new status system and the huge devaluation of earnings.
The bad news is that United moved to a (mostly) revenue based system. Which means that all earnings of miles and status' are determined by the dollars you spend and not the miles you fly. To show how bad this is for people like us, my last paid international flight would have earned me 1,000 miles....
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The other day I saw a tweet from saianel who said that he had less award availability now that he canceled the credit card. It also seems that every year Star Alliance award availability to Europe gets worse and worse. Finding a ticket in the summer requires advance notice or some flexibility.
Since I have one account with the card and one account without the card, I figured it would be pretty easy for me to test. So here's what I found.
Read moreSo I said open-jaws on stopovers were illegal. But, I did share the exceptions, and I did tell you back tracking is possible... but I didn't connect the dots, yet.
Recently I published the Complete Guide to United Routing Rules. I'm extremely proud of this post partly because it's just good, and partly because a lot of the research is mine. United doesn't publish their routing rules, and I didn't see anyone else researching the most powerful zones, connection limits, test stopovers and open-jaws and all that crap.
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