re: Credit Card Rewards and Points Discussion

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I sort of attempted using them for my Africa trip but the whole call them, give them dates and they call you back with the possibility of having to do that over and over made me shut that shite down and just use United.

Sure not the best award chart compared to Korean but I'm not about to frick around

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I don't know if the KA award is good for Africa but you can check on Flying Blue first to see if the dates are available. So once I see they are I call Korean SkyPass and then yes, they call you back and you tell them the dates. In the cases where I looked on FB (actually you're looking on AirFrance from the FB website) first and there were dates Korean had it available and it was simple to put them on hold. And that's the second best part you can put it on hold and don't even have to have the UR points yet or transfer them right away unless you're ready to go.

50k for me and wifey to fly to NOLA RT for Jazz Fest a couple weeks ago. You do have to do some paperwork though the first time to register your family with them and then after that you still have to send a award redemption form each time but it's so worth it. I have another trip held right now to SLC in January as we're going to Sundance and doing some snowboarding. I don't even have to transfer the UR to KA until 12/31 they told me so now I can see if something else comes up where I'd rather save my UR but I doubt I'm going to beat 50k UR for me and wifey to fly non-stop on Delta to SLC. But again, I don't know if this trick works for Africa or international but I do know it's a sweet spot for HI.