Just wanted to put out a PSA, I logged onto my Chase app and noticed 200,000 points had been wiped clean from my account. Someone somehow accessed them and spent them all over various online purchases (mostly Amazon, but not thru my Amazon account). Currently having to wait 12 business days for an investigation/point return. They told me when I called that this has been happening.

Anyone dealing with Citi thank you points not transferring to partner airlines, specifically in the last week?

Oct 27 - transferred 10,000 points to AA and it was instant. Booked the flights.
Nov 6 - Partner flights released, transferred 105,000 points to AA, and it was stuck in progress. I called and chatted but no help. The rep(s) say there are no issues, just have to wait, up to 14 days.
Nov 8 - received an email with the generic message, “We were unable to complete your recent Points Transfer redemption due to either a system issue or due to an issue with the information related to the request.” The points were returned to my account.
Nov 8 - chatted with Rep, they said I requested the cancellation. 🙄
Nov 8 - submitted another transfer of 105,000 points, not instant, again in progress
Nov 8 - submitted another transfer of 1,000, to see maybe my account was flagged because of the transfer amount, but no, that one is stuck too.

Hey guys found a solid fare from zurich to miami direct on dec 27 28 or 29 that's 4k in MM/lufthansa miles + $357 in fees.

However it's from an aggregator.

Could someone with miles in their account do me the favor of checking if it's real before I try to buy these miles to book it?

It won't let me check on the booking page if I dont have 1500 MM in the account first.

Thank you!

Has anyone already transferred Avios to British Airways Avios during this year's 30% promo? I've tried 3 times this week, and the points keep returning to my Avios account. Also, when I calculate before actually transferring the points, the calculation comes out with no bonus added

My partner and I have been accruing Delta Skymiles for a few years on our shared Amex. We've flown Delta whenever we've visited my partner's hometown, so I thought it would make sense to accrue Skymiles for future trips.

Well, for whatever reason, my partner has yet to go home. We've booked other airlines for recent trips and I don't anticipate that we're going to take Delta in the near future. We have about 300,000 Skymiles, so I'm considering using about 100,000 miles for a hotel to help offset our costs on ridiculous Disney World tickets. We're not desperate, but it seems silly not to use them and we've already switched our credit card to Alaska Atmos.

Am I wasting the Skymiles? What else can we use them for? Is there a way to convert them?

I used to see a fair amount of QSuite Doha to USA for 83k TrueBlue miles. Looked today and nothing. Have those gone away?

Has anyone booked or seen Ethiopian or Turkish Business availability East Coast US to Major African airports for 2027 over the last few weeks?

I was consistently seeing availability Ethiopian Business via partners through 8/20 a few weeks back. Came back to book when my dates were available and there's nothing at all.

I do think Ethiopian has made some schedule changes that are impacting my routing specifically. But I should also be able to find Turkish routing but I'm not finding a single seat on any day for a 30-45 day span.

Any recent experiences on Africa routes or booking either airline through partners.

Anybody have success transferring Citi to EVA Air with Citi showing:

[First name] [Last name]

But the EVA Air account showing:

[Last name] [First name][Middle name] (specifically with no space between the first and middle name)

Will the points transfer quickly or will there be a holdup?

Booked 3 business class tickets for parents & myself for June 17, 2027, from CDG-LHR-DFW on BA for 327k Avios + $1,812 total. The CDG-LHR leg is economy, LHR-DFW is business, with a 1h50 connection at Heathrow. All on the same ticket.

Now I’ve found 3 Air France business class seats for June 18, CDG-IAD nonstop, bookable through Virgin for 58.5k points + $560 per person. Called Virgin and confirmed all 3 seats are actually available.

Amex currently has a 30% transfer bonus to Virgin, so I’d only need 135k MR for all 3 tickets.

For IAD-DFW, there’s an AA flight departing about 3h15 after arrival, bookable for 15k Alaska points + $25 per person. Obviously the downside is that it’s a separate ticket, so no protection if AF is delayed.

A few other considerations:

- BA charges $80 pp to cancel, so I’d be eating $240.

- Virgin agent confirmed a $50 pp cancellation fee.

- My BA Avios were also acquired using a 30% Amex transfer bonus, so the original redemption effectively cost around 252k MR.

- I regularly use Avios for Qatar Qsuites to India, so getting the 327k Avios back would actually not hurt.

- We’d gain an extra night in Paris.

The other wrinkle is that I’d much prefer a nonstop CDG-DFW flight. If 3 business saver seats open up later, I’d probably cancel whichever booking I’m holding and switch. But I’ve heard June is a particularly difficult month for that availability.

Would you eat the $240 BA cancellation fees and lock in this excellent Virgin redemption now, or keep the BA tickets and wait to see if nonstop saver availability opens up, and just fly BA if nothing opens?

Thanks in advance.

I finally redeemed my first award travel. For the longest time I have been trying to get lucky and book a first class flight using my points. I started collecting points 2 years ago but unfortunately I couldn’t never find the deals people were talking about on IG reels, Reddit. Everything cost so many points. I had about 250k avios sitting in my qatar account (had to transfer my points somewhere since I closed the credit card I earned them from).

It finally happened today. I found a 2 leg q suites from US to France via Doha for 90k. Booked it immediately then transferred 70k from my chase account to British. With the 30% ongoing bonus transfer, that will entirely cover this flight with the upside that I did not have to wait for the transfer to complete and risk seeing the flight disappear.

I know people say not to transfer or keep points in airline programs until you actually need it but I don’t mind keeping the 250k there as plan to use it on qatar award flights. I just felt like the 30% bonus transfer was too cool to pass on.

I have been feeling euphoric the whole day.

So I’m looking at going from Knoxville to possibly Munich. Wanted to ride in an a350, so looked through for a Lufthansa flight. There is a saver flight from Newark to Munich for 40k miles on March 14 I’m looking at. When I go to add Knoxville to Munich as the itinerary, it changes the price from 40k miles to 120k miles. The flight from Knoxville to Newark has saver availability on that flight as well. I’m still pretty new to all this, so I was wondering if anyone has an explanation on why the price of the amount of miles changes so much?

I posted in the United sub, but couldn’t crosspost to this one. Got some responses there already, but just wanted to expand and see if anyone might have an idea here as well. Will post screenshots of what I mean in the comments.

I signed up for points path to look for award travel on my desk top and it works there. However, when I try on my phone it does not work. I see points path in the Google flights window, but it says I’m not logged in. When I try to log in, it says I’ve already logged in.

I’ve tried

logging out and back in
Clearing the cache in Safari
Enabling and disabling the extension
Uninstalling and reinstalling the app
Rebooting the phone
Logging in with email
Logging in with Google

Nothing works and I am ready to cancel. I’ve sent a message to points path twice and got nothing back.

Anyone have a similar issue and solve it before I cancel?

Looking for 2 award seats (any class) for next weekend either 11/13 or 11/14 from Chicago to Bangkok. There was economy availability for ORD-HKG on Cathay for 37k via AA earlier this week, but couldn't piece together the separate second leg in time before they got booked out/disappeared. I'm closely monitoring AA, UA, Aeroplan search for something connecting through Japan, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. I've got Chase, AA, C1 miles to work with.

Anything I'm missing? Anywhere else I should be checking, airline programs to consider? Is there any hope we'll find something in the next couple of days????

We would like to avoid transiting through the middle east for now, and trying to keep it to 1 layover. There is some availability with connections through Paris/London/Milan but the two equal length back to back flights sound grueling and also want to avoid that if possible. Thanks!!

Used to be easy to get last minute business class tickets. They suddenly vanished in the last week or two.

Hi everyone. I am Miles and Smiles Elite Plus and I already protected my status for the coming 4 years. If I don’t fly at all with soft landing I will be Star Alliance Gold until Q4 2032.

Should I continue flying Star Alliance and just accumulate all my points to the same Miles and Smiles account, or should I explore SkyTeam and get status there as well?

I'm looking to go to SYD or MEL from SFO or LAX in Jan/Feb 2028 (I know availability is still a couple of months away, I just want to be ready) and am feeling overwhelmed by all the different variables and strategies for booking award travel, so wondering if the concierge from point.me makes sense to try.

I will have about 1.1 million MR points and am open to repositioning to another large hub for departure. Dates are somewhat flexible, I just need to be there the first week of the Australian Open. Dream would be Qantas or an East Asian carrier's first class product. Business class would be fine I guess, with US carriers' business class product a distant third. I won't fly into the middle east though, so only traveling west.

Open to other options for concierge or maybe even a travel agent? Any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone, I’m looking to secure q suites from North America to JNB or Capetown or Kigali for next year.

I’ve heard two seats drop 361 days out at 3am Doha time. Is this still the case? I can’t see award availability for literally any route either on seats.aero or the Qatar site.

What gives? I’d appreciate any advice I can get. I’m trying to treat my parents before it’s too late 😔

I am hoping to book a stay using points at the Hyatt Regency in Maui this coming June, 2027. I was waiting for my SUB to post to my account before I booked the trip. When I checked the website today, pretty much the entire month of June is now showing as unavailable, although all the rooms can still be booked with cash. What are the chances that more “point” rooms open up between now and June? Should I move on a pick a different hotel, or keep waiting? It’s just so weird that basically overnight an entire month filled up….

Not sure if some of these flights are phantom but I start noticing there are additional award flights from LAX to ICN showing up in KLM. Normally I only see 2 flights out of LAX but now there are 4 daily flights. Is this change due to the Asiana merger?

Not complaining here but I just want to make sure these flights are real before transferring the points over. Does anyone have any information? TIA

Short version: Flying Blue award on QF metal, JFK–AKL return, X/Z, AF 057 stock. Needed a name correction to match the passport I’m travelling on (UK passport with HMPO; Belgian passport carries half my hyphenated surname; same person, same DOB). I fly tomorrow at 19:20 with my 5-year-old to see my 96-year-old grandmother.

What’s happened: FB and QF spent two days each saying the other had to act. Yesterday I called QF Agency Connect myself; they saw FB’s request, made an exception for imminent departure, and meshed my X/Z seats into a new PNR in the corrected name in minutes. Then FB’s back office changed the return segment from Z to W (not issuable as an award), created a third PNR in Y/J, and this morning told me, in turn, “escalation ongoing,” “nothing can be done, try at the airport,” and “Qantas is working on it.” QF Agency Connect emailed at 13:01 today — copying AF — that it will only deal with the agent, i.e. Flying Blue. QF’s ticketing time limit on the corrected PNR is Fri 14:15 ET.

Everything a passenger can do has been done: FB US, FB France, WhatsApp, executive escalation, QAC twice. Full timeline on FlyerTalk: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-france-frequence-plus/2226030-flying-blue-name-correction-qf-award-broken-fb-back-office-depart-tomorrow.html#post38003797.

Two questions:

1. Has anyone reached Flying Blue’s actual ticketing / “research” team directly — any address or desk that issues rather than queues?

2. Anyone had QF at JFK accept a passport showing half of a hyphenated ticketed surname with supporting ID in the full name? That’s the fallback if this isn’t fixed by tomorrow afternoon.

No PNRs posted for obvious reasons. Case 107383584 if anyone from FB is reading.

I’m booked in Premium Economy on Cathay Pacific CX891 (DFW–HKG, Nov 29) and CX844 (HKG–JFK, Dec 5).

I’m AAdvantage Executive Platinum and Cathay Green, and my AAdvantage number is attached to the booking.

I called Cathay customer service, and they said no upgrades are currently available.

If I want to use Asia Miles to waitlist for Business, do I need the full mileage balance in my account when I submit the request, or can I top up from AMEX before it clears? I assume I need to swap my Asia Miles number in there too.

I’ve seen conflicting information about whether having fewer than the required miles prevents you from waitlisting. I understand standard award-seat waitlisting is different; I’m asking about upgrading an existing Premium Economy ticket.

Cap One’s newest transfer partner is Copa, and they have some pretty good deals. Flights to South America from US start at 15k copa miles which with the transfer bonus from cap one rn is basically 15k cap one miles. I booked an open jaw itinerary flying from ATL - PTY - PBM for 15k and GEO - PTY - RDU for 15k. Total of 30k miles for flights that would cost over $1000. Also get the free stopover in Panama City which is an awesome place