United raising awards

[ual902]

Can anyone confirm this is accurate?

Goal: Fly LH F on old rates on, say, 5/15/14.

Book LH F on 1/31 for 2/15.

In the days leading up to and following 2/15, do nothing and let the plane depart with rezzie intact.

On, say, 5/1/14, call UA and use the old PNR to pay a single change fee to change to 5/15/14 (if/when LH opens).

I wonder if on 1/31 all LH F wont be available to book for the week from 2/1 to 2/20, due to everyone attempting to redeem their old awards?!!!! would it be wise to start booking LH F now for flights past 2/1?

 My Actual goal is to fly LH F A380 and LH F 744 my routing is NYC(Anywhere USA JFK, MIA, IAH)-FRA-NRT in May 2014.

[Dan]

Sure, book it for tomorrow and cancel.
Officially you need to complete travel within 12 months of ticketing though it's loosely enforced.

[AJK]

Problem is that until we know that routing changes are allowed or not allowed under old pricing scheme, you'd have to pick the routing now and hope to get lucky.

[jj1000]

Chase replied to my PM about the award raising:

"Dear JJ1000,

Thank you for contacting Chase regarding your United
MileagePlus® credit card account.

On Friday, November 1, United announced a change to their
Travel Award Redemption levels, which will be effective
for Saver & Standard awards booked on or after February 1,
2014.

While serving you is our number one priority, your inquiry
regarding this change needs to be handled directly by
United. Please contact them at 1-800-421-4655 or by
visiting www.united.com/contactmp.

If you have any further questions, please reply using the
Secure Message Center.

Thank you,


Customer Service Specialist

1-800-436-7927

Account is owned by Chase Bank USA, N.A. and may be
serviced by its affiliates."

[myb821]

Chase replied to my PM about the award raising:

"Dear JJ1000,

Thank you for contacting Chase regarding your United
MileagePlus® credit card account.

On Friday, November 1, United announced a change to their
Travel Award Redemption levels, which will be effective
for Saver & Standard awards booked on or after February 1,
2014.

While serving you is our number one priority, your inquiry
regarding this change needs to be handled directly by
United. Please contact them at 1-800-421-4655 or by
visiting www.united.com/contactmp.

If you have any further questions, please reply using the
Secure Message Center.

Thank you,


Customer Service Specialist

1-800-436-7927

Account is owned by Chase Bank USA, N.A. and may be
serviced by its affiliates."

got the same

[jj1000]

got the same

Pretty lame reply...

[AJK]

Chase's response = "We don't give a sh*t. Not our problem. Bark up another tree."

 

[Freddie]

I opened my Mileage Plus Explorer card back in July (for the first time.) I was going to wait longer before closing it for the next churn, but now I'm thinking maybe I should close it as a protest statement. Al derech moshol, like they always say, always file a police report even if the cops will never get your stuff back.

Does anyone have any opinion/advice/guidance on this matter?

[sky121]

I'm heading out to Venice with a few friends in mid-July. I'd like to know if anyone has any advice on where to stay - spcifically over Shabbos. The hotels that we've looked at near the Jewish Ghetto are over $200 a night, and those are the cheap ones!

On another note if anyone has any general advice on sightseeing in Paris, Venice, Rome and London (that's our itinerary), please post so we can make our trip memorable.

Thanks

If you do close it would definitely be great to say you're closing because of the award devaluation. Couldn't hurt.

[how]

Chase replied to my PM about the award raising:

"Dear JJ1000,

Thank you for contacting Chase regarding your United
MileagePlus® credit card account.

On Friday, November 1, United announced a change to their
Travel Award Redemption levels, which will be effective
for Saver & Standard awards booked on or after February 1,
2014.

While serving you is our number one priority, your inquiry
regarding this change needs to be handled directly by
United. Please contact them at 1-800-421-4655 or by
visiting www.united.com/contactmp.

If you have any further questions, please reply using the
Secure Message Center.

Thank you,


Customer Service Specialist

1-800-436-7927

Account is owned by Chase Bank USA, N.A. and may be
serviced by its affiliates."

I got the same 

[MEIR613]

Chase replied to my PM about the award raising:

"Dear JJ1000,

Thank you for contacting Chase regarding your United
MileagePlus® credit card account.

On Friday, November 1, United announced a change to their
Travel Award Redemption levels, which will be effective
for Saver & Standard awards booked on or after February 1,
2014.

While serving you is our number one priority, your inquiry
regarding this change needs to be handled directly by
United. Please contact them at 1-800-421-4655 or by
visiting www.united.com/contactmp.

If you have any further questions, please reply using the
Secure Message Center.

Thank you,


Customer Service Specialist

1-800-436-7927

Account is owned by Chase Bank USA, N.A. and may be
serviced by its affiliates."

got the same

I got the same 

May I ask, what were you trying to get?

[how]

First Chase to complain to united - which may be happening
second bonus compensation miles

[moish]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2013/11/01/united-ups-mileage-needed-for-many-frequent-flier-tickets/3344437/

from this article it seemed they had a legitimate option to discontinue partner awards.

is that even possible?

[Dan]

UA used to do Starnet blocking in the PMCO days, they could have returned to that.

[Chaikel]

If someone has a nice list of emails for a Chase EECB, please PM me.

I have a say in roughly $2mil per month CC spend, I wanna give them a piece of my mind (for what little chance there is)

[aj26]

That's a lot of money

[Chaikel]

That's a lot of money

If only it was being paid to me

To clarify my earlier statement: I have a say on what cards it gets spent on, not where it goes

[Drago]

To clarify my earlier statement: I have a say on what cards it gets spent on, not where it goes

Think that Chase will care all that much about the influence you're telling them about? It's not nearly as concrete as spending the actual money.

[Chaikel]

Think that Chase will care all that much about the influence you're telling them about? It's not nearly as concrete as spending the actual money.

Under my instruction, a few hundred k (per month) has been moved over to Chase, and they were slowly moving everything over (Chase makes it much harder for a company to start spending 500k+ per month than Amex does). Now I'm advising them to move back

[itsyehuda]

Under my instruction, a few hundred k (per month) has been moved over to Chase, and they were slowly moving everything over (Chase makes it much harder for a company to start spending 500k+ per month than Amex does). Now I'm advising them to move back

I'm in a similar situation. There's still Korean though, so UR is not worthless yet.