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SkippedLagged Cash-to-Points #2

Open itsjafer opened 2 years ago

itsjafer commented 2 years ago

Love the project! Could you explain how SkipLagged's cash to points works? Initially, I thought this meant using a SkippedLag fare but booking with the relevant airlines' points but I'm not so sure.

For example, a flight from ORD to LGA on Dec. 26th shows a cost of 10,000 points but I'm not able to find the ability to book the flight with 10,000 points through United nor SkippedLagged!

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Could you help me understand where the gap in my knowledge is? Thanks!

(Alternatively, a way to filter out SkippedLag and/or other airlines would be great!)

lg commented 2 years ago

skiplagged is tricky. it's there as a proxy for Chase Ultimate Rewards. where i basically take the SkipLagged price and multiply it by 1.5c/mi. it turns out a lot of prices united gives cost a lot more than just doing a paid ticket via Chase (and using Chase points). will also look into AMEX in the future too, i think they have some ridiculous things when you do paid 1st class tix.

itsjafer commented 2 years ago

Got it, that makes sense! Pretty interesting (and smart) way of going about ultimate rewards.

As someone that holds the CSP (and not the CSR), having the value for cents/mile be a configurable number might be useful. Might send a PR if I get the chance!

itsjafer commented 2 years ago

Created #3 to make this configurable.