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Not as great as 90K bonus in branch last month, but still better than current 70K points online, $95 Annual Fee as usual
I am not a professional churner, but manage to get about 40 millions UR points over the years so doing pretty good so far... see pic:
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T&C
Earn 80,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months after account opening,* that's $1,000 in travel rewards when you redeem through Chase Ultimate RewardsÂŽ.
This product is available to you if you do not have any Sapphire card and have not received a new cardmember bonus for any Sapphire card in the past 48 months.
More ways to earn
New! Earn 3X points on dining, including eligible delivery services, takeout and dining out.*
New! Earn 5X total points on travel purchased through Chase Ultimate RewardsÂŽ, excluding hotel purchases that qualify for the $50 Anniversary Hotel Credit.*
New! Earn up to $50 in statement credits each account anniversary year for hotel stays purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards.*
Earn 2X on other travel purchases.*
New! Earn 3X points on online grocery purchases (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs).*
New! Earn 3X points on select streaming services.*
Plus, earn 1 point per dollar spent on all other purchases.*
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Which is horrifically low compared to actual value for flying in the pointy end of the plane.
Getting 4-6 cents in business, or 6-8 points in first, isn't terribly challenging.
Even getting 2-3 cents a point for coach or hotel rooms isn't hard.
Typically business is 2x, not 3x, of coach points wise... but often a LOT more than 2x for cash.
That's where a lot of the value is.
I'm flying to Japan later this year- arriving after a 14 hour flight, fully rested and ready to go, (on top of well fed, etc) is essentially buying me a full extra day of vacation on both ends of the trip instead of being exhausted for 1-2 days each way from spending 14 hours each direction in coach.
But again, even if you DO fly coach, you can do 2-3 cents a point typically, so taking the garbage 1 cent cash value is still setting $ on fire unless you just never travel at all, which sounds boring AF.
As for business, it's definitely 3x or more. Example above, business class, same route and date (different airline but lowest price on Chase portal) is $4586 which is 4x the economy price.
If you're finding business tickets that are only 2x economy or finding 2:1 value conversions, good for you, but I've never seen such a conversion from Chase.
Maybe I'm young (not really) but I'm ready to roll after a 14 hr economy flight with a transfer in between
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You don't use the portal. The portal is garbage- especially for the pointy end of the plane.
You transfer to an airline. Where business is just about always 2x economy, and you can easily get 4-6 cents a point on the low end for business, 6-8 cents for great redemptions.
I'm flying ANA business from NYC to Tokyo, returning Tokyo to LA, for 85,000 points, which is a $7000 cash ticket roundtrip--- even discounting the taxes on the ticket I'm getting almost 7.5 cents a point.... or compared to your other example tickets I'm paying roughly the SAME amount (if I treated the points as 1 cent each for cash) as your coach redemptions but instead getting to fly in business class in one of the best luxury products in the sky.
If you're still looking at portal values you need to do some reading before trying to discuss the topic further- value via transfers is massively higher than the portal for anything outside budget airlines in coach.
Also any tips on where you can search for using ana points for business class?
Earn up to 75,000 bonus points per year
You can get 15,000 bonus points for each friend who gets the Chase Sapphire PreferredÂŽ Credit Card.
yes, the best value of using UR points is transfer to Airline partners for best redemption if flying premium cabins or transfer to hotel brand for hotel staying, There are a few urgent travel trip that I use portal to book because Partner airline did not have seat available. occasionally I also redeem for Apple product when they have 1.5x bonus redemption, i.e Iphone 14 promax 1TB only use 100k UR points vs retail of $1500
I sent you a DM hondaman82 if you're able to check
Your problem is that you're discounting what people care and don't care about on their vacations. Whereas I understand people like yourself who value what seats and what plane you're on, I really don't. My wife just flew ANA business from SFO to NRT. It's nice, but I'm not her and I don't care about that experience. To me, cash is king.
By the way, anything that has high margins for a business, such as business class fares for airlines, by definition has higher perceived value (the price they show on a website) than intrinsic value (the cost of providing that flight). So they can discount the fare through points and make it look like you got a good deal but instead you just overpaid less. This is exactly why economy conversions have lower ratios because you weren't overpaying to begin with.
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Earn up to 75,000 bonus points per year
You can get 15,000 bonus points for each friend who gets the Chase Sapphire PreferredÂŽ Credit Card.
Her page says 75k sign up 15k referral. When she copied it, the link told me 60k and 15k.
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Not sure where you get "over $1300" from, my total taxes on the reward flight was 763.05 USD.
And I already mentioned that in the math- that's how I got ~7.4 cents a point, I subtracted the cash cost first. If you left that out it'd be well over 8 cents a point.
If you don't think $300 total to fly 14 hours, each way, in business instead of coach is worth it you've never flown anything but coach.
More importantly though it totally debunked your original actual claim that it's 3x the cost to do so, or that points are only worth 1.5 cents.
Now you're just moving goalposts after your original claims were disproven.
They haven't done that for years
Also looks like this is being offered by Chase Business Checking, at least according to the original post.
A little more context would be useful here, because I'm also seeing 60k + 15k .
Edit: Using the "direct link" gets me to an 80k page....but doesn't land on the same place as the refer-a-friend link does. I need to be able to generate an 80k referral.
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You don't use the portal. The portal is garbage- especially for the pointy end of the plane.
You transfer to an airline. Where business is just about always 2x economy, and you can easily get 4-6 cents a point on the low end for business, 6-8 cents for great redemptions.
I'm flying ANA business from NYC to Tokyo, returning Tokyo to LA, for 85,000 points, which is a $7000 cash ticket roundtrip--- even discounting the taxes on the ticket I'm getting almost 7.5 cents a point.... or compared to your other example tickets I'm paying roughly the SAME amount (if I treated the points as 1 cent each for cash) as your coach redemptions but instead getting to fly in business class in one of the best luxury products in the sky.
If you're still looking at portal values you need to do some reading before trying to discuss the topic further- value via transfers is massively higher than the portal for anything outside budget airlines in coach.
Points guru, how are you transferring to these points to airlines? Like you make an account with airlines and tell chase to transfer or there is a credit card offered by airline and chase together to transfer to ?