How I Scored an $8,967 First Class Ticket for Less Than a Latte — The Untold Hack Airlines Don’t Want You to Know
But booking through the online portal comes with disadvantages. The value of the point is fixed, so the required number of points could fluctuate depending on the flight price. Under most circumstances, you should never do this. They almost never offer the best deal, but I always check it just to get a baseline idea of what a “regular” award fare would look like.
Knowing that I would be redeeming my Chase points, I checked their booking portal to see what they were offering. And, as I expected, Chase’s point valuation was too low. They wanted nearly 300,000 points for a mixed-class flight in business (a mix of economy and business seating) and more than 900,000 for a flight in first! That’s way more than I was willing to part with—and I knew I could do better. A lot better.
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