calypso726
Escaping reality one Disney vacation at a time
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2006
@calypso726 how long did it take before the Alaska miles were deposited into your account? I just redeemed a package yesterday, so just mindlessly waiting lol
It was about 5 days.
My train of thought:
Personally I have the most experience with AA but I sent my miles to AS. For my package I chose between AA, AS, UA and DL (no southwest at my home airport). I’m over 5/24 and not looking back so getting AA miles from churning AA cards is very easy. Pass. Now that I have a plethora of AA miles I rarely fly UA and I figured if I needed to I could transfer miles from my URs. Pass. I thought about DL because the no expiration thing but I’m happy with the amount of DL miles I have in my DL bank right now and I don’t really have plans for them tbh, I’m using them this year for WDW but every other domestic redemption I see sucks. Pass. AS is where I landed after researching what I could do with AS miles and seeing I could book some international business class redemptions with those miles and I have no other way to get AS miles (no BoA relationship at the moment, they hard denied me a business card though so I’m not too optimistic on my shot at regular BoA cards).
Your thought process is exactly why I chose Alaska too.
I love how knowledgeable people on this thread are. I am very grateful for everyone’s help.!!!
Now, I have another question. I’m picking up a rental car that I reserved through Costco travel but it’s with AVIS if that matters. I have the CSR and CSP and I was planning to use one of them to rent the car and use the Chase CC primary rental car insurance. I don’t remember if I used the CSR when I originally reserved it. (Not sure if I had it yet). I might have used the Costco card....
Anyway, I just called AVIS and asked him about the credit card insurance question. The guy told me they would put a $100 hold on the original card I used, and I can’t change the card. But when I returned I could use any credit card to pay for he car. (But I need to use my CSR for the insurance.) Then he said the credit card insurance is a third party insurance and they’d still use my own car insurance and then I could get reimbursed by my credit card. That didn’t sound correct to me....
The car rental agent is wrong. The CSR and CSP offer primary car rental insurance. However, to get it you have to pay with the card AND you must completely decline any and all insurance offers from the car rental agency.