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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who fly United, any tips for transferring Chase points to United? Do you try to find a flight and then transfer? Or transfer and then look for the flights? [/quote]

Find the flight and then transfer the points. Try to book about 330-350 days in advance of the flight you want for the cheapest points, or last minute. You can google to see what the typical saver award flights cost to see if you're getting the "best" deal. If you have a United credit card (any of them), you'll see the cheapest points fares. Another tip is to try to book a United flight through one of their partners (Air Canada for example), you can often get even better deals this way.

Playing the points game is a decent amount of work and effort. There is a learning curve. For those of you suggesting the portal, you're not getting the most out of your points. If that method works for you, there's nothing wrong with it. But the Chase Sapphire Preferred has a $95 annual fee, and your points are worth 1.25 cents in the portal (the Reserve is 1.5 but it's a $550 fee). A bit of research will show you that people easily and often exceed 2 cents per point all the way up to 5, 6 and 7 cents per point by transferring directly to airlines and hotels. [/quote]

We got tix to Hawaii last year for Presidents Day week for like 27K roundtrip on United; we booked it only about 6 weeks out due to some [b]special being run by United if you had status + a United card[/b]. The value was 5.5 cents per point. It was absurd. [/quote]

That was almost surely XN award inventory that you had access to- it's economy award inventory that is more frequently available than general population X award inventory.  XN is available to any United elite or any United card holder- even the $0 annual fee Gateway card.  It's a great perk and yes can save tens or hundreds of thousands of miles if booking for a family.  [/quote]

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