How to Use 80K Chase Ultimate Rewards

It's no secret that we are huge fans of Ultimate Rewards here at Travel on Point(s). Whenever there's an elevated welcome offer for Chase's Ultimate Rewards earning cards, we share some awesome ways to redeem those points. With 80,000 points often being around what you can get with different Ultimate Rewards earning welcome offers, especially when the offers are increased, we figured it was a good target option.

As always, the key to maximizing your points is taking advantage of Chase's many transfer partners. And that's exactly what we do here.

Business Class to Europe on Air France or KLM

Air France/KLM's Flying Blue loyalty program is one of our favorite ways to fly across the pond in business class. Air France and KLM serve lots of US cities and tend to offer more business class availability than many other airlines. Flying Blue also charges reasonable award prices for these flights, with business class awards starting at just 50,000 miles one-way.

Taking advantage of a transfer bonus can make the flight even cheaper. And on ToP of these transfer bonuses, Flying Blue has monthly promo rewards that can include even lower award prices for business class flights between the US and Europe. Combining promo rewards with transfer bonuses lets you fly to Europe for dirt cheap!

Four Nights at a Category B Hyatt All-Inclusive Resort

How do 4 nights at a tropical paradise without having to plan any meals sound? Hyatt's category B all-inclusive resorts cost 20,000 points per night at standard rates, 17,000 for off-peak nights, and 23,000 for peak nights. With Hyatt as a Chase transfer partner, you can transfer your Ultimate Rewards to the World of Hyatt program and book directly through Hyatt.

You have plenty of options in Mexico and the Caribbean to choose from. You can even use this nifty tool on Hyatt's website to sort through different categories of all-inclusive resorts.

And if you're in 2-player mode, you could have even more points to play with. You would have another 79,000 points from P2's welcome offer plus the referral bonus for referring P2 to their own Chase Sapphire Preferred. With these extra points, you could stay at a higher category resort or spend more nights at a category B property. There's no wrong choice here!

United Airlines Business Class to Southern South America

Flights from the US to southern South America (such as Brazil, Chile, Argentina) can take a lot longer than you'd expect. Depending on your destination, a non-stop flight from the US can take 10 hours or more. Thankfully, you can redeem Ultimate Rewards for business class on these long flights by transferring to Air Canada Aeroplan so you can arrive well-rested at your destination.

The key here is redeeming Air Canada Aeroplan points to fly on United Airlines. United offers multiple flights to southern South America from its hubs like Newark (EWR), Houston (IAH), Chicago (ORD), and Washington (IAD). Air Canada charges charges 60,000 miles one-way in business class. And United's Polaris business class seats are quite nice (and my personal favorite among the US carriers).

Because of Air Canada's distance-based award chart, flights to northern cities in South America cost even less.

Q Suites To The Middle East

For just 70,000 URs, you can fly one-way in Qatar Airways' famous Q Suites from the US to Doha, and for a few more points, you can go even farther in Q Suites. Qatar flies to many US airports, such as JFK, ATL, MIA, SFO, ORD, and LAX. And American Airlines isn't the only program with a sweet spot for flying Q Suites.

You can book this by transferring your Ultimate Rewards to British Airways, which charges 70,000 for this flight. To continue onwards from Doha, then transferring your Avios from British Airways to Qatar Airways is the way to go. Qatar charges 75,000 one-way in business class from the US to Middle East destinations like Dubai (DBX) or Muscat (MCT), or 80,000 Avios to Cairo (CAI) or Amman (AMM).

If you want to continue on to the Maldives (MLE) or the Seychelles (SEZ), you can do so for a total of 85,000 Ultimate Rewards.

Singapore Airlines Business Class (IAH-MAN)

Did you know you that Singapore Airlines flies a fifth freedom route between Houston (IAH) and Manchester, UK (MAN)? This is just one of the airline's great fifth freedom routes out of the US. You can snag a business class seat for just 81,000 Singapore KrisFlyer miles, which you can transfer from Chase. This is a great way to experience an excellent business class right from the US!

How to Use 80K Chase Ultimate Rewards: ToP Thoughts

Earning 80,000 Chase URs from a welcome offer is great. Today we shared just a few ideas out of the many awesome things you can do with these valuable points. For more food for thought, make sure to check out our post with ideas for how to redeem 100,000 Ultimate Rewards as well!

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