Chase’s Ultimate Rewards program allows cardholders to transfer to a number of travel partners at a rate of 1:1. On August 25th Chase will lose the Korean Air SKYPASS program as a transfer partner.
You can still make transfers to Korean Air SKYPASS until August 24th. Chase’s transfer partner list will be as follows:
| Chase Travel Partners (All Transfer 1:1) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Airlines | ||
| British Airways Executive Club | Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer | Virgin Atlantic Flying Club |
| Flying Blue AIR FRANCE KLM | Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards | Aer Lingus |
| United MileagePlus | Iberia Plus | Emirates |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | ||
| Hotels | ||
| Hyatt Gold Passport | Marriott Rewards | |
| IHG Rewards Club |
It looks like the above warning message only appears if your internal clock is set to August 15th or later, otherwise the warning message won’t appear.
Hat tip to @spencerformiles
Hi William or anyone out there, I need your advise on a Chase screw up this Saturday: Both my wife and I had 48,000 points on our Skypass accounts and I figured I would top both of them off at 50,000. I transferred 2,000 UR points to my account and that worked fine. Then I called to transfer 2,000 UR points to my wife’s accounts because her last name did not match her skypass account. The chase rep changed the name and then proceeded to transfer 50,000 UR points!!!! I called this morning and they are escalating. Do you have any experience with this process? If there is a recording I am ok because I clearly stated I wanted 2,000 points transferred, but they were not sure. Thanks in advance for your help!
I just transferred 800k to Korean Air. Hopefully, they bring back Korean Air.
Hey Doc, what’s going on with Chase and specifically the UR program…another thing I’ve realized is not only has Chase ended the referral program for CSR but today I just tried to refer the Freedom and it also concluded?!! Is something on the horizon?
Not that I know of, referral links come and go that isn’t anything new
Let it go to Amex.
i was planning to transfer 90k UR to Korean Air for two round trip 1st class flights to hawaii … in 2020. Any thoughts on preemptively transferring 90k UR for this reason?
Are you dead set on that decision? If you were already planning (and have committed) to using KA miles for your trip, then you could consider it as the miles do not expire for 10 years. However, due to the inherent risk of a devaluation by that time, there’s always the chance you end up with too few miles by the time you could actually book.
If you aren’t 100% set on that plan, then you could always save the UR points and wait and see any potential transfer partners that Chase picks up while you accumulate enough for an alternative flight plan.
Has anybody noticed that this action coincides with the second anniversary of the Chase Sapphire Reserve card.
Aw this makes me sad
I was planning to transfer 90k UR to korean air to book two 1st class on delta US to hawaii for my honeymoon in 2020…. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of award? is there decent award availability? Is it worth locking in 90k to korean air this far in advance?
Thanks in advance
My friend has done it for first, though only for himself (never for 2 people). I’ve booked coach. It’s tough, but doable if you are flexible in dates and originating airport. Your biggest hurdle is that you are relying on Delta saver award space availability. On top of that, DL has no published award chart, so it’s tough to even know what constitutes a saver award. I try to figure it based on looking at the monthly award calendar on DL’s site and when I find the lowest award price over a period of months and presented in green, I figure that as “saver” space.
KE’s award booking site leaves much to be desired. It can return phantom availability and often fails to show the entirety of availability which KE phone agents can see. Still, if you can match up a route shown on KE’s award site to DL’s award site, then you have found an award that you can book and have found what constitutes a “saver” award for your timeframe.
Now the good: KE’s phone agents are generally awesome. They are the first airline I have ever had where the agents have been willing to take a desired itinerary, end the call, search for availability and call you back with options (obviously YMMV). Also, as mentioned before, in my experience KE agents have been able to see space which is not present on their own site, and sometimes not presented on DL’s site. You will need to be ready to pull the trigger if they present something that works, as KE recently did away with placing award itineraries on hold.
TL/DR: It’s going to be a process, but it is doable and worth it IMO
Love how they purposely only give 10 days notice.
Better than nothing I guess
no biggie…no UR points and never used Korean Air…