Until just the other day, United required 121,000 miles for one-way first class ticket to Europe on Lufthansa or to Japan on All Nippon Airways (ANA). Well, FlyerTalker ChazzaBazza flagged that the new rates are as follows:
United no longer publishes an award chart so it's easy for them to slide in these changes under the radar. Of course, United's award rates were already unnecessarily high so most people shouldn't have booking either of these options with United miles.
It certainly feels like United is moving closer and closer to Delta SkyMiles - a program notorious for some of the worst award rates in the industry. I don't think we can be surprised given United's actions in the last several years, but it's disappointing nonetheless.
Perhaps, they think people love and stay loyal to discount programs like the ones you find at grocery stores.
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