Feb 18, 2024, 9:13 pm
Last edit by: WineCountryUA
While it had appeared to be true, it has been unclear for some time if the improved award available for MP branded credit cards was intentional or would continue -- however in May 2017, UA started posting in award searches for credit card holders
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Exclusively available to you as a MileagePlus Premier® member and MileagePlus Chase Cardmember
so this appears to be intentional
Appears to apply to all present and legacy MileagePlus branded cards
Provides better available is for JN, YN, XN(FN?) BUT not IN
Previous threads
Checking for award booking - something new? noting expanded inventory for elites & CC
Premier members who have Chase-issued credit cards are eligible for award ticket upg.
Archive: Better award availability with United credit cards (as well as elites) {Archive}
Quote:
Exclusively available to you as a MileagePlus Premier® member and MileagePlus Chase Cardmember
so this appears to be intentional
Appears to apply to all present and legacy MileagePlus branded cards
Provides better available is for JN, YN, XN
Previous threads
Checking for award booking - something new? noting expanded inventory for elites & CC
Premier members who have Chase-issued credit cards are eligible for award ticket upg.
Archive: Better award availability with United credit cards (as well as elites) {Archive}
Better award availability with United credit cards (as well as elites)
Aug 30, 2024, 6:38 pm
#136
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https://www.theexplorercard.com/rewa...rds/club-card?
https://www.theexplorercard.com/rewa...explorer-card?
Aug 30, 2024, 6:45 pm
#137
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Aug 30, 2024, 6:57 pm
#139
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So three UA accounts: the first one is Premier Platinum without a UA card, second one is a Gateway cardholder (downgrade from Explorer) with no status, third is an Explorer Business cardholder also with no status.....
The latter 2 have access to XN space at a lower price than the Premier Plat account. One SFO-HNL-LIH itinerary was 25k in XN for the card holders vs 27.5k for the Plat, down from a strikethrough price of 56.7k.
The latter 2 have access to XN space at a lower price than the Premier Plat account. One SFO-HNL-LIH itinerary was 25k in XN for the card holders vs 27.5k for the Plat, down from a strikethrough price of 56.7k.
Aug 30, 2024, 9:02 pm
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There are at least two separate discounts: First, there is the 10% off economy awards for certain credit card holders (which is probably to remain competitive with the Amex offer for 15% off DL award flights) and then there is expanded access to saver award space for Premiers and certain credit card holders, which, due to the fact that anytime awards have a very wide range of costs, can offer an effective discount range from 5% to more than 50%. The way pricing is displayed now it isn’t obvious whether the pricing is a saver price or not. Some routes have a minimum saver coach price while others go very low when the cash price is very low. All domestic routes seem to have a 30k minimum First class award price.