Not exact matches
To
complicate things more, Membership Rewards has more and better
airline transfer partners
than ThankYou, but the Prestige card has better earning potential, offering bonus miles for purchases in several different categories.
And oddly enough, the needlessly
complicated 5 - tier Delta award chart (which of course doesn't actually exist, wink, wink) means that when lowest - level redemptions aren't available on any
airline and you're considering a more expensive award, Delta may actually be cheaper
than the others thanks to all their intermediate award tiers.
United currently has the most
complicated fee structure of any
airline loyalty program, with fees ranging from $ 75 to $ 200 depending on whether you want to make a change more
than 21 days before departure, less
than 21 days before departure, or just cancel the ticket and redeposit the miles.
Sure she could always transfer them to an
airline, often a uniquely good option with Starwood, but that's obviously more
complicated than just getting a refund and moving on with your life.
American
Airlines has made the Hawaiian earnings chart a lot more
complicated than it used to be.....
The
airline fee credits are way more
complicated to redeem
than the simple $ 300 travel credit from Chase on the Sapphire Reserve card.
It's not
complicated, and it's certainly more flexible
than using
airline miles.