Didn't see this discussed here...sorry if I missed it. Between the insane flight prices and now this, it's starting to become less and less worth it to stay loyal to one airline.

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I noticed that economy saver awards to SE Asia went from 44K to 60.5K. I didn't see a difference in premium economy and business though. I booked a flight to bkk for the same as last year.

TXCityAggie said:

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Didn't see this discussed here...sorry if I missed it. Between the insane flight prices and now this, it's starting to become less and less worth it to stay loyal to one airline.

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Definitely not worth it to stay loyal. At least for the casual flyer. Probably still worth it for people getting perks like Gold for Life or Global Services....

United is my top choice, but I price out every flight I take. If Southwest is $10 cheaper with similar times I'll fly SW. If United is $50 more but has direct flights I'll fly United. So I place more value on flight times and nonstop than airline.

Just use a credit card that has decent partners for points transfers.

Also, I typically use airline points to upgrade to first class for long haul flights. Haven't really investigated how that's effected by this.

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TXCityAggie said:

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Didn't see this discussed here...sorry if I missed it. Between the insane flight prices and now this, it's starting to become less and less worth it to stay loyal to one airline.

United Mileage Rates Jump

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Just use a credit card that has decent partners for points transfers.

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This! I've always been an airline CC churner, but am now looking into unaffiliated travel cards. Intro offers are lower, point values keep climbing, and airline price differences are getting outrageous. Don't put all your eggs in one airline

looks like this is international only.
In the last month I've booked several flights from DEN for under 10k points.
Den-dfw was 6500 points ea way, on a friday 10am and monday 1pm
Got the whole family to nashville and back on saturdays in october for under 40k ea, neither being the real early flight

It cost me 70K miles to fly my girlfriend to Europe this month. Used to be able to book a round trip for that amount. I think this will be my last year of high status with United, because I don't fly a quarter of what I used to. Covid changes helped me hang onto it for a few extra years which has been nice. But after this year I'll probably cancel my United card and just fly what's cheapest.

rebelag62 said:

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It cost me 70K miles to fly my girlfriend to Europe this month. Used to be able to book a round trip for that amount. I think this will be my last year of high status with United, because I don't fly a quarter of what I used to. Covid changes helped me hang onto it for a few extra years which has been nice. But after this year I'll probably cancel my United card and just fly what's cheapest.

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Was that a business class ticket? Ive looked for flights in several cities in Europe and it seems the standard is 40k one way.

No, it was regular economy. Maybe it's just the destination. Prices were steep. I thought I checked other destinations as well, but maybe not.

Looks like I should've booked the Europe flights we'd been looking at, dang

This morning I found a flight to BKK through Osaka with the SFO>KIX leg on United Premium for 71.5K miles, so I swapped my previous booking over to this one.