United has announced that beginning November 15, 2019, they are eliminating award charts and instead using dynamic pricing, similar to Delta’s mileage program, where the price to book an award ticket changes based on availability, demand, and pricing.
As an example, currently if you wanted to travel one-way in economy from the U.S. to Europe using United MileagePlus points, you know that it would cost you 30,000 miles. However, with the new dynamic system, you have no way of knowing in advance how much it will cost (a Delta award ticket using dynamic pricing for a similar flight can be between 25,000 and 130,000 miles, with most tickets coming in closer to the latter).
This move devalues miles for MileagePlus members and also hurts the value of Chase points, if used to transfer points into this program.
The good news is that you have until November 15th to burn miles currently in your account, which is what I’m hoping to do.
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