United blocking partner awards | Coffee Break Ep07 | 4-16-24
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Tragically, United appears to to be blocking saver award space from Star Alliance partner bookings. In this coffee break episode we'll talk about what that means.
(0:59) - Overview of United's recent changes
Read more about these United changes here.
(01:09) - Why it matters
(07:11) - Research findings - what we've found out digging a little deeper...
(09:50) - Are United miles now more valuable?
(14:19) - Are United credit cards now more valuable? (extra award space)
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Music Credit - Beach Walk by Unicorn Heads
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're |
| 0:22.5 | calling coffee break. Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to |
| 0:28.6 | miles and points. And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy. |
| 0:37.5 | Welcome to today's coffee break. On today's coffee break, we're going to discuss United |
| 0:42.6 | Blocking Partner Awards. If you want to use United's partners miles to book United |
| 0:48.9 | flights, you might have a hard time with that. |
| 0:53.3 | Ouch. |
| 0:59.0 | Some negative changes there where we'll talk about what those changes really ultimately mean. |
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| 1:09.3 | So United is blocking partner awards, partner |
| 1:12.3 | redemptions. They're making it impossible if we're difficult at the very least, if not impossible, |
| 1:17.9 | to book with partners. Why does that matter? Why do we care? Yeah. Boy, there's several reasons |
| 1:23.9 | why this is pretty big for the U.S. audience in particular. |
| 1:35.3 | For one, if you want to fly United, now we can't use most transferable points to book United. Because in the past, if you wanted to fly United and you had American Express membership rewards, for example, you could transfer to Air Canada or to Life Miles and book |
| 1:47.5 | those United flights when they're available to partners. But if they're all going to be blocked, |
| 1:52.7 | then we can't use those points to book. And so since Amex points don't transfer to United, |
| 1:59.4 | you know, you're out of luck. |
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