I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

[bernina]

Sanity check question to make sure I’m reading correctly.

Does adding someone as a (free) Gold authorized user on my Amex personal Platinum allow them to get the $100 global entry credit?

“If you add three authorized users and have all of them apply for Global Entry in the first year, that’s $300 worth of benefits, which easily covers the $175 additional annual fee. All additional members added to a Platinum Card — both additional Platinum Card members and additional Gold Card members — are eligible.”

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/why-add-authorized-users-amex-platinum/

 

[happ]

If anyone has a second, would you mind looking at the Jetblue site and see if you can see any availability for flights in February? I'm looking specifically RIC to MCO, but it looks like maybe they just haven't loaded flights period even though it says you can book through February now.

I'm seeing up through 2/12 as available.

 

[havaneselover]

If anyone has a second, would you mind looking at the Jetblue site and see if you can see any availability for flights in February? I'm looking specifically RIC to MCO, but it looks like maybe they just haven't loaded flights period even though it says you can book through February now.

I am getting that too.

 

[havaneselover]

I'm seeing up through 2/12 as available.

I see that too but when I try to book 2/1-2/8 it says nothing available.

 

[Lain]

Sanity check question to make sure I’m reading correctly.

Does adding someone as a (free) Gold authorized user on my Amex personal Platinum allow them to get the $100 global entry credit?

“If you add three authorized users and have all of them apply for Global Entry in the first year, that’s $300 worth of benefits, which easily covers the $175 additional annual fee. All additional members added to a Platinum Card — both additional Platinum Card members and additional Gold Card members — are eligible.”

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/why-add-authorized-users-amex-platinum/

Yes. @wendow has added her DDs as Gold AUs on her Plat. Note that Amex AUs have to be 13 years old+. And that “Gold AU” cards are not the same as the Old Gold, PRG, or new Gold/Rose Gold card. The only real benefit of the Gold AU card is to charge the GE/Precheck fee onto it for reimbursement, and to maybe help your kid(s)’s credit history.

 

[StephPlum]

Transferring and consolidating points with Hilton is incredibly easy, and free!

Hilton lets you do Points Pooling, where several members contribute points to a pool, or direct person-to-person transfers. Both are subject to a limit of 500k points sent and 2 million points received per calendar year.

For transferring points between spouses: When you log into P2's Hilton account, in the side menu under My Points, click More Ways to Use Points, then click Transfer Your Points. Select the number of points you want to transfer, in 1,000 points increments, up to 500k, enter your P2's first name, last name, HH number, and email. That's it. It can take ~24 hours for the transfer to complete.

Here's the fine print:

Hilton Honors Members can transfer Hilton Honors Points to another Hilton Honors Member through Points Pooling or 1-to-1 transfer in increments of 1,000 Points and up to 500,000 Points. Each Hilton Honors Member is limited to sending no more than five hundred thousand (500,000) Points and receiving two million (2,000,000) Points via Points Pooling or Transfers combined per calendar year. Each Hilton Honors Member is limited to making six (6) transfers to other member accounts and six (6) Hilton Points Pooling transactions per calendar year. Invitations to join a Points Pool is not considered transactional. Transactions refer to the transfer of Points to another member account either through 1-to-1 account transfers or through Points Pooling.

Any points beyond these limits will not be posted to any Member's account. Limits are at the sole discretion of Hilton Honors Worldwide L.L.C., subject to change.

A new Hilton Honors Member can pool, transfer, or receive Points 30 days after enrollment providing they have activity on their account. After 90 days of enrollment, a new Member is eligible to pool, transfer, or receive Points regardless of their account activity.

Thanks. I still have to straighten out DHs Hilton account form his Hilton Biz and then I need to consolidate points.

 

[bernina]

Yes. @wendow has added her DDs as Gold AUs on her Plat. Note that Amex AUs have to be 13 years old+. And that “Gold AU” cards are not the same as the Old Gold, PRG, or new Gold/Rose Gold card. The only real benefit of the Gold AU card is to charge the GE/Precheck fee onto it for reimbursement, and to maybe help your kid(s)’s credit history.

Thanks! I’m planning to see if my parents and brother want to be added to get TSA or Global Entry. They don’t care about it taking up a 5/24 slot. I’ll be closing my Platinum when the annual fee comes due in August so trying to squeeze these in. I also have a promo for 5K MR for each AU added that spends $500. I would plan on spending the $500 for them but it’s a nice little bonus in addition to getting them GE for no fee.

 

[calypso726]

Seriously considering a quick trip in August to Disneyland for me and my daughter. Can you transfer UR's to Alaska Airlines? Prices are cheaper on the AA site.

No, Alaska is not a UR transfer partner and neither is AA. You can purchase flights with UR points through the UR travel portal. You can only transfer UR points to airline miles to Chase's airline partners which are United, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Singapore Airlines, Aer Lingus, Air France, Iberia, Jet Blue and Southwest.

 

[Lain]

Seriously considering a quick trip in August to Disneyland for me and my daughter. Can you transfer UR's to Alaska Airlines? Prices are cheaper on the AA site.

You can’t transfer URs to Alaska, but you can purchase Alaska flights using UR points on the Chase travel portal. (You also can’t transfer UR points into AA miles, but you also purchase AA flights using UR points on the Chase travel portal.)

Make sure you’re using the Chase travel portal and redeeming points on a card a better redemption bonus, like 1.25x on the CIP or CSP, and 1.5x on the CSR.

I will say that I worry come August, when SWGE no longer requires reservations after 6/23, the land is going to be packed and the Millennium Falcon ride will be an over 2 hour wait. ETA: I recall reading somewhere that FastPass and MaxPass will not be available for the Millennium Falcon initially. I don’t know if that means only during the reservation period, or for months after opening to the general public.

 

[Etonduf]

Kind of...anyone have an air printer for the iPad that they would recommend? I have discounted iTunes funds to use and get tired of always having to use the laptop to print to our wireless printer.

I use AirPrint on my Canon MF227DW. It's a printer/scanner combo and is a few years old now, so may not be what you want. But I print frequently from iOS and would look for a similar Canon if I needed something new.

 

[AmyAnne]

Sanity check question to make sure I’m reading correctly.

Does adding someone as a (free) Gold authorized user on my Amex personal Platinum allow them to get the $100 global entry credit?

“If you add three authorized users and have all of them apply for Global Entry in the first year, that’s $300 worth of benefits, which easily covers the $175 additional annual fee. All additional members added to a Platinum Card — both additional Platinum Card members and additional Gold Card members — are eligible.”

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/why-add-authorized-users-amex-platinum/

Pretty sure the answer is yes @wendow

 

[calypso726]

Seriously considering a quick trip in August to Disneyland for me and my daughter. Can you transfer UR's to Alaska Airlines? Prices are cheaper on the AA site.

Depending on where you are flying from, if you see saver miles on the AA site, you can transfer UR to BA for an AA flight. BA is distance based. This may or may not cost less points than purchasing through the UR portal which will also earn you frequent flier miles.

Example SEA-LAX on 8/9 return 8/12 in economy is 18,000 BA Avios pp plus $11.22 in taxes pp. This is on an AA partner flight. So you'd transfer 36k UR to BA Avios and pay $22.44 in taxes and fees. It is searchable on the BA site. If you are closer in distance than SEA-LAX it may be even less Avios.

The same flight purchased through the UR portal is 33,413 total UR points with a CSR account. It would be more points with a CSP or CIP account since the points in those accounts are worth 1.25 vs 1.5 with a CSR. However, I did see other flights for less than that. This would be a case where I would choose to purchase through the UR portal rather than transfer to BA. It's less UR points, plus I would earn the butt in seat miles to boot.

 

[AmyAnne]

Yes. @wendow has added her DDs as Gold AUs on her Plat. Note that Amex AUs have to be 13 years old+. And that “Gold AU” cards are not the same as the Old Gold, PRG, or new Gold/Rose Gold card. The only real benefit of the Gold AU card is to charge the GE/Precheck fee onto it for reimbursement, and to maybe help your kid(s)’s credit history.

Also occasionally there is an offer to get 5000 MRs for adding an AU to the Plat. If you don't need the GE credit right away you might wait to see if you get targeted for the bonus.

ETA: I see Bernina already has the card (and the offer) . . .

 

[calypso726]

You can’t transfer URs to Alaska, but you can purchase Alaska flights using UR points on the Chase travel portal. (You also can’t transfer UR points into AA miles, but you also purchase AA flights using UR points on the Chase travel portal.)

Make sure you’re using the Chase travel portal and redeeming points on a card a better redemption bonus, like 1.25x on the CIP or CSP, and 1.5x on the CSR.

I will say that I worry come August, when SWGE no longer requires reservations after 6/23, the land is going to be packed and the Millennium Falcon ride will be an over 2 hour wait.

We're doing it again

We are going to DLR in early December and have the same fears.

 

[DisneyMandC]

I'm seeing up through 2/12 as available.

I see that too but when I try to book 2/1-2/8 it says nothing available.

Thanks for checking! It looks like they finally are available now.

 

[needsomesun]

Lurker since day one of the original thread, rare poster. I've been wanting to change my username for a while but didn't want to give up my "Joined in 2010." But I didn't like having my real name in the username. So finally did it anyway. I was the lone reddit hold out, didn't really want another social media account. But I might as well do that too.

Been traveling a lot for the past month or two, between 2 scheduled trips and 2 not scheduled trips to visit a sick family member. We burned through some points with that. I had opened my first citi biz about a month ago, did get the $250 credit as one of my flights was on AA (which I rarely travel), so that helped.

Last Monday my SW flight was canceled due to "mechanical" issues. I finally caught up on this board and read that I could have tweeted (well, DH could have, I don't have twitter either...) and probably have gotten a voucher. It pays to stay up to date here.

I'm off to go chauffeur kids around (my favorite Sunday pastime), will try to post more later and get a reddit account.

 

[afan]

Seriously considering a quick trip in August to Disneyland for me and my daughter. Can you transfer UR's to Alaska Airlines? Prices are cheaper on the AA site.

You already got your answer but Alaska is AS and I think when you use AA which is American Airlines you're adding confusion into things.

 

[punkin]

Asking again about chase cards (this board just moves so fast). Does the 3 month spacing recommendation include co-branded cards?

Also, does anyone know anything about the United excursion benefit?

 

[PolyRob]

2) 3x Saks $50 gift card (have to buy the first one by June 30)

I don't think I saw a response, but you only get 2 Saks $50 credits. 1 Jan - June and 1 July - Dec.

 

[Alexle2007]

Not sure if anyone answered, but I don’t use an air printer with my iPad. Pull up whatever you want to print, just like you’re going to use AirPrint. Then go to settings and look for your wireless printer on WiFi. Connect iPad to printer, then go back to your page to print (iPad will at this point not be connected to WiFi, only the printer, so will not be connected to the internet unless it has its own cellular service) After printing you will have to go back and reconnect iPad to WiFi.

@Alexle2007 I can print to my wireless printer just fine through my iPad. No connecting/disconnecting wifi or anything. I just click that icon with the up arrow and then scroll on the second row of icons to find the print icon. Click that and it shows my printer. TBH, I don't remember how I told it my printer name or how the iPad found it.

Thanks! I have no idea. I have the latest generation iPad. I found the Samsung Print Mobile app and downloaded it. So now I can at least print from it. So much easier than having to logon to the laptop all the time.