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[nicname]

Goddamn, AA charging for tranferring pts from me to wife or vice versa is maddening.

[steve dave]

Yeah dude, you can’t do that with almost any airline (BA will allow pooling of points amongst family members though). Some hotels allow it. The cost to transfer rarely makes it worth doing.


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Goddamn, AA charging for tranferring pts from me to wife or vice versa is maddening.

Why would you even be doing this?

[nicname]

Goddamn, AA charging for tranferring pts from me to wife or vice versa is maddening.

Why would you even be doing this?

Cuz im dumb. I only have 21k AA pts.

Edit: trying to get Winters a plane ticket. cancelling transfer. i think crisis gonna be avoided.

You dont get my 76 bucks AA!!

[nicname]

Phew, cancelled that bs.

im just gonna book the flight from DEN to ICT one way w my pts.

Then book the one back from ICT to DEN one way w hers.

 

[TheHamburglar]

Delta Amex upped the new member bonus for October.  Gold at 60k and platinum at 75k.

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By Andrew McIntosh  – Staff Writer, Puget Sound Business Journal
3 hours ago
Alaska Airlines is overhauling and scaling back its partnership with American Airlines, saying it has outgrown its 20-year-old relationship with the Dallas-based carrier.

Effective March 1, 2020, Alaska Airlines mileage plan members will no longer be able to redeem miles for domestic or international flights on American Airlines, and they won't earn miles on international American flights any longer. Alaska customers can also still earn miles on some American domestic flights to a limited number of destinations under a revised code share agreement between the carriers, subject to government approval.

American Airlines AAdvantage mileage plan members will no longer be able to redeem their miles on Alaska Airlines flights after that date, according to Nat Pieper, Alaska Airlines' new senior vice president of fleet, finance and alliances.

"Like in life situations, airline partnerships only really work if both parties have objectives that are aligned," Pieper said. "You only have so much time and so many partners you can focus on. The utility we got from the American Airlines partnerships was low. "

Alaska Airlines contends the impact of its decision will be minimal: Only three percent of its mileage plan frequent flyer members earned or redeemed miles on American Airlines in the past year. Additionally, this will free up more reward flight seats on Alaska flights for its own mileage plan members.

Pieper said that when Alaska first cemented its partnership with American two decades ago, it was a much smaller regional airline that carried 18 million passengers a year.

After Alaska Air Group's $2.6 billion takeover of Virgin America, Alaska became the nation's fifth largest carrier, and it flew 46 million passengers in 2018.

The SeaTac-based airline emphasized that over the past four months, it's added key partnerships with two foreign airlines, including Aer Lingus of Ireland and El Al Airways of Israel. They joined six other foreign partners Alaska has struck deals with since 2015, giving Alaska 16 foreign airliner partners from Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and Asia

Mileage plan members with frequent flyer status won't see as many changes, Pieper said. Alaska lounge members can still access more than 50 American Airlines Admiral Club lounges around the world when flying either an Alaska or American flight.

[steve dave]

I can confirm that this does, in fact, suck crap

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Airport lounge pak'n in both airports via CSR, hoping there's a 9am KSU game that Saturday going up and will house tons of free booze for 3 hours before boarding.

[michigancat]

United completely exploded MileagePlus right after I get Premier Gold.

https://onemileatatime.com/united-airlines-status-changes/

I think I would still get gold this year but it would be closer.

[steve dave]

Hyatt is the only program I know of that has never significantly devalued the stuff. It’s coming probably but I’ll stan for them forever for how long they have held out.


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[steve dave]

starting on 2020/21 companion pass x 2. sw just changed the policy to require 125k a year instead of 110k. not a big deal, especially with the bigger sign up bonuses. Can't believe they still allow this.

Plan:
-Mrs dave has 70k biz card coming. Complete the $5k spend in Jan so it posts then
-I'm over 5/24 until late Nov when I have 2 falling off. Get the same biz card for myself in early Dec
-Get her and myself personal cards around March (exact date tbd as I have to make sure we haven't gotten the bonus in the last 24 months and it would have been right around this date).

Should have 2020/2021 companion passes by around April or May. Going to keep kicking the can a little further down the year because of the 24 month bonus requirement which stinks. But, I doubt the companion pass is still this easy to obtain come 2022 anyway so not going to stress on that. Do need to rush a bit as we have some travel in May that I want to use these on. Will book the kids on points and then cancel them getting the points back and adding them as companions.

Still the best deal in travel for families. My kids probably have 20+ flights between them over the last 2 years absolutely free and will do that again over the next two.

[steve dave]

And that’s not including the value from the 250k’ish SW miles.


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