gottalovepluto
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All righty, I've decided I'm going to try to get my multi-quote on today...
Are you making sure you are logged into your UA account when searching? They have slightly more availability if you're a UA cardholder- VERY slightly more but still it's something.
The Venture denial scarred me too! I was like 6/24 at the time. I'll keep an eye for other DPs on this card as well but hitting all 3 bureaus really added to the pain of that denial...
ETA... I take back my popcorn, some of those comments are just so angry and dumb it's kinda depressing. I think I'd better stick to Reddit and Twitter for my popcorn dramas!
I was worried about Amex until someone here mentioned it's basically like Oprah and the "you get a car! you get a car! You get a car! Everybody gets cars!" episode back in the day. That's Amex with cards. I don't know why, despite everyone's assurance's I'd be fine, I needed that visual to get comfortable with apply for Amex cards. (I now have 4, oldest is 8 months- maybe I got too comfortable!)
Are you making sure you are logged into your UA account when searching? They have slightly more availability if you're a UA cardholder- VERY slightly more but still it's something.
Just wanted to say do not transfer those miles until you see the availability you want, I don't see any advantage to that since as you mentioned you can't put them back. I booked a UA award a few months ago. I found the award, transferred from Chase and the miles were immediately available at UA. I think I had to log out and log back into UA but that was it.
The Venture denial scarred me too! I was like 6/24 at the time. I'll keep an eye for other DPs on this card as well but hitting all 3 bureaus really added to the pain of that denial...
Do you have status in another program that might auto-match status to AA or something? I think you're the 2nd person we've heard of this from, I believe @calypso726 had this happen as well?
I'm not too concerned at this point. If it doesn't re-activate in a couple months then I'll believe it.Hope DoC's wrong, hope DoC's wrong, hope Doc's wrong...
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/chase-sapphire-reserve-referral-bonus-offer-has-concluded/
ETA: Not affecting me at the moment. Existing link works and I generated a new one from the app that works too. Haven't tried the general RAF page yet. Maybe that's where this issue is?
ETA2: Yep. I can't figure out how to RAF from my account so I tried the general page and when I put in my CSR info I get that message.
Try their link anyway to see if it works! I went over there to check mine and clicked some other's links and a good chunk of them are still working. If you get the offer concluded/not available message I'd shot them a DM and see if they can use the app to generate a new link.
I think they just ran a refresh on some of the links and also screwing up their RAF site.
ETA... I take back my popcorn, some of those comments are just so angry and dumb it's kinda depressing. I think I'd better stick to Reddit and Twitter for my popcorn dramas!
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) we usually book one way award flights. If I wait for the return flight to load 355~ days out, seats in first may have disappeared for the departure. If you are flexible with the airport and date, you have a lot more options. I posted recently about my struggle to book award flights to Scotland using a companion voucher with British Airways. I had been stalking the BA site on an off for months, then I was checking right at inventory loading for weeks before I had to book. I was becoming increasingly alarmed over the fact that they simply were not releasing first class flights out of Miami. Mind you, in the past I could count on 4 first class awards seats being released for each flight. So, I had to get flexible with the airport and date. I wound up looking up every airport BA flies out of from the Midwest to the east coast on a 3 cabin plane. Once I had my choices narrowed down, I started to look for patterns out of each airport. I wound up booking us to depart a day earlier than we were planning, flying out of JFK even though I live in south Florida. I booked an evening JFK-LHR flight of course and couldn't book the connection to EDI until the following day since those flights weren't released yet. I also wound up doing something slightly convoluted for the return since my dates were not flexible on that end and the flights times would not work and we are also flying back home from London to JFK. My flights to/from MIA and JFK were unable to be booked until well after I completed the booking for the return flight from the UK to the US. Those flights would have been on US airlines and their inventory doesn't load until 330~ days out. I wasn't worried because there are plenty of flights to and from south Florida to New York across several airlines. We have enough points and miles in various currencies that I'd be able to pick whatever was convenient. I mention all this so that you and anyone else following along that booking award flights up front isn't always easy or convenient. In my case, the goal wasn't getting to Scotland however possible, it was using the BA companion voucher because the opportunity arose. BA taxes and fees when connecting in London are not worth paying unless you are all the way up front. I'm sure many would argue that they aren't worth paying even all the way up front. I think they count toward EQDs for AA status purposes. Still trying to figure out how all that works, so I may be wrong.
I read it when he posted on DoC and read it again when he reposted it there cuz that's just awesome.
Haha. I keep thinking that I need to get on top of that and get better about it, but just haven't had the time. Fortunately I don't have much because other than UR, I just have Marriott, Hilton, and AA miles. But I really need to write it down and I want to keep track of my redemptions too. I'm just awful with spreadsheets and keeping up with them!
p.s. Disney trips are SO much better when you've used your travel hacking skills to go for cheap!
