{"id":8560,"date":"2009-09-30T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/?p=8560"},"modified":"2009-09-30T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:00:25","slug":"new-mileage-plus-options-and-new-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/new-mileage-plus-options-and-new-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mileage Plus Options and New Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am no fan of United Airlines.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There service stinks, their Mileage Plus program deceptively blocks you from using partner awards, and dealing with them is often infuriating, even by airline standards.<\/p>\n

It is largely for those reasons that I do not recommend any United Airlines Mileage Plus credit cards.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, some people, like me, have a few miles left.\u00a0\u00a0 Even if I was able to find an award ticket on United, I really would prefer not to subject myself to them ever again.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, there is a new way to dispose of United Mileage Plus miles without flying United Airlines.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You don’t even have to try to book one of their blocked airline “partner awards”, the ones that can only be booked over the phone.<\/p>\n

Now you book rental car and hotel awards<\/a> with your remaining Mileage Plus Miles.\u00a0 Over at the Upgrade Travel Better blog<\/a> they ask the question if these awards are really worth it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of course they are not worth accumulating miles towards these awards with your credit card.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyone who knows anything about Mileage Plus could have told you that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He does the legwork and determines that you might get a mere .75 cents per mile from the hotel awards, far below what you would expect from any cash back card.<\/p>\n

How About Rental Car Rewards?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I plan on using some of my left over miles for a rental car award, a mere 10,000 miles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Think about that for a second.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Suppose I actually flew 10,000 miles on United, (an intolerable fate I will try not to imagine.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Surely such tickets would have cost a few thousand dollars.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For that, I can redeem a compact rental car worth maybe $30-$50.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Had I actually spent 10,000 dollars on a United Airlines Chase card, I would be getting a pitiful .3 -.5 cents per mile in value .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If I had used a 2% cash back card, I would have had an easy $200 cash, good for a week’s car rental.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Worse, these rental car awards are not changeable or cancelable, unlike most rental car reservations.<\/p>\n

The clear use for this new program is so that you can use all of your orphaned United miles and never have to deal with them again.\u00a0\u00a0 And with United, that may be their best reward.<\/p>\n

New Rules<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love Bill Maher’s Real Time program, especially the “New Rules” commentary at the end.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New credit card rules from the fed are not as entertaining, but they are useful.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Washington Post writes today<\/a> that the Federal Reserve is working to draft new rules on credit cards as required by the CARD act.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The new rules include no rate hikes in the first year of your credit card.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a great thing, as what is the point of comparing interest rates if they can change at any time for no reason.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Another new rule will force card issuers to get your consent before charging a fee for going over your limit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is another no-brainer type of rule banning one of the classic tricks and traps of the trade.<\/p>\n

Really this is just the implementation of the CARD Act, and it is not unexpected. \u00a0\u00a0 Nevertheless, it is satisfying to see this actually happening in the same way in feels good to watch a long anticipated construction project rise from a job site.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For a long time, we were told “Change” was coming.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now it is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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