How Long Do Chase Ultimate Rewards Points Transfers Take?

I've done 2 SQ transfers in the last two weeks and both took about 12 hours!

Transfers from Chase to Air Canada are usually instantaneous, but often there can be a delay of 24 hours or more — usually at the worst, most inconvenient time. It’s not clear why, but it probably has something to do with fraud prevention measures. It often happens with new AC accounts, or with sequences of smaller transfers meant to add up to a particular number. Can you address this? It seems impossible to predict, but it would be good to know how to avoid such situations to reduce stress.

Hyatt and Southwest transfers have been instant. Singapore Airlines took about 2 days, though it felt like an eternity while hoping the saver award space didn't go away.

Ben, please fix the Aeroplan line - it is no longer instant, just as Wayne wrote! I had 2 transfers, one took over 48 hours, another over 24 hours. Anything large enough for a good redemption takes at least a day to transfer. I am talking about an existing account, with a prior history of both transfers and redemptions, as well as direct earning using an Aeroplan credit card.

Yes, the wait and the disappearing award space make UR points much less useful. Someone I know finally got fed up with Chase - they are transferring about 500k UR points to Aeroplan while there is still 20% bonus available, to be used as statement credit at 1.25c per point, then closing all their Chase cards.

I had serious issues transferring Chase points, to all of things, United Miles in late October. I tried to transfer 200K pts to United and it stalled for a week before the transfer was canceled. A week later I transferred smaller quantities (10K, 90K, 90K) 2 which of which went through immediately and one that took about 35 hours to complete.
Chase told me that transfers will complete usually in a day but could take up to 7 days.
Has anyone one experienced similar issues with Chase UR points?

I can confirm United has not been consistently instant for a while now. I've had three transfers take anywhere from 3-7 days in the last six months. I now try to give myself plenty of extra time; thankfully, United still allows you to hold fares for 3 or 7 days, so that's made the difference.

Bonvoy 2 point transfers of <15k points were instant. 1 of ~100k points was 3 days. Hyatt 3 transfers of ~50k took 3-5 days.

My experience is that transferring points is a crap shoot as inventory can disappear in the 3-5 days it takes for points to show up.

I transferred Chase points to Singapore Airlines last week. The transfer took 69 hours.

On the Chase Website, I was permitted to transfer points to either my own Krisflyer account, or that of my wife, who is an authorized user of the card.

The online feature didn't work, but I was able to transfer the points via a quick phone call to Chase. They warned me that the transfer could take up to seven days to complete, but that most transfers happen "within a day."

It took three days.

Not sure why, but I haven’t had an instant transfer for some time now. 3ish days to United, 2ish to Air Canada, and 3ish to Flying Blue.

It simply isn't true that points transfers to Air Canada and United are instant. Sometimes they are, and sometimes there are inexplicable delays of up to a week. This should be correctly indicated. It's a well documented issue.

Just wanted to echo the fact that Chase transfers to United are often not instant. My last one took just under 24 hours and by then my seats were long gone.

Just transferred major miles for tickets. Chase rep confidently said transfer to United would be 5-10min. Several hours later United rep confirmed it would take 7-10 days. Hope tickets don't sell out!!!! So anxious now! BTW, dont buy tickets to Asia on United in November, heard it's awful!! 🙂

Time to hire an editor. The chart says Bonvoy transfers are instant, then you go on to say all points transfer instantly except Bonvoy and Kris Flyer.

Emirates Skyrewards is not instant either. Currently waiting about 12 hours and counting.

I wish I'd read the damn comments. Transferred 110K instant. Transferred 270K, stuck. Now just stuck in 7 day limbo to see if I can even use the points on BA anymore.

May 2024 transfer to aer lingus took 24 hours. i did get the email notification from chase when it went through.

Air Canada transfers are not instant. Multiple day delays are very common, and this is well documented for some time. I am on day three waiting for points to go through from Chase UR to Air Canada Aeroplan. Extremely limited tickets available. This is frustrating. If I lose my seats, I'm abandoning Chase and going back to Citi.

Avios also no longer instant

"Instant" with Emirates hasn't been my experience in the last year. Sometimes it's 12-48 hours, and most times it gets rejected for me and I have to call and "ask for an escalation" after which point it usually goes through within another 48 hours.

Totally agree. I am coming up on 72 hours waiting for a transfer to Emirates.

I decided these charts are kind of worthless actually. Even the cc websites won’t say instant, they always give themselves a 7 day window.