Emirates Devalues US To Europe Awards, But...

I believe 2023 will be the year of mass devals.

@Ben- Do you think with these devaluations that availability increases further ahead in the booking calender? Or do you think it will still be a few days to a week out? Thanks!

I had been using my Emirates Barclays card quite a bit, but I've sock-drawered it since this devaluation.

What about those rts? Was able to book jfk-mxp 90k rt for November a few weeks back.

I'd still like Pam Am to be flying and be able to redeem two round-trip first class tickets to Paris for 100k points.

Get tough or die.

Shouldn't surprise anyone as most if not all carriers have increased miles required to fly, they have to "pay" for all those miles they sold Amex etc! As for EK their first is getting long in the tooth, don't get me wrong it's a great long haul experience however I have found the Air France first to be an exceptional experience sans the shower.

Your posts are so whiney these days…

Oh f*ck off. I’m so tired of people like you commenting on every article with genuinely brain dead stuff like “there’s worse stuff to complain about”. Go google critical thinking and be prepared to have your world rocked.

Lucky is reporting facts. Just because your brain is too smooth to comprehend nuance doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t appreciate his take.

So please, from literally everyone else, kindly f*ck off.

I also think that programs will continue to increase redemption rates, but i feel the primary culprit behind these is the current US credit card market.
Have seen numerous posts on other blogs along the lines of: "Two cards, one checking account, 365k miles." Pretty sure I saw someone buy a car with with their Plat card and netted something like 500k miles, maybe it was more.
If banks and issuers and going to allow folks to generate points at a rate potentially 80 - 100% greater than before would it not stand to reason that redemptions would increase lock-step based on the new earn rates?
So it might stink that it costs more, I think for most with access to to US cards could generate the difference in the blink of an eye.
The changes really suck for those of us outside the US, with 50k welcome bonuses and saying a 2x multiplier isn't so bad.
Just a thought, more long winded than I anticipated.

Any sense if this will affect points upgrades from business to first? I'm on the auto upgrade list for a business award flight booked pre-deval that we hope clears for first in May.

The good old days! Besides they never ran out of caviar, no matter how much one ate. At one point I had way over million miles (all from flying, not cards), it took a year of first class flying all over the world to use them at those redemption rates.

I now use qatar, i was platinum on emirates, but quality poor, cost is high. I used to spend $70k per year with them, not any more.

We had 185K points transferred pre-pandemic that were set to expire in August! Randomly logged into Emirates near the end of Jan and they were showing 2+ seats in F MXP JFK virtually every day! Promptly transferred 19K and booked a date in Mar for 204K and €260ish total! Happily confirmed and will enjoy one final EK 380 F trip. Plan to use my entire 5 min of water for sure!! Seems all the F availability has disappeared again! It’s all so random now anyhow……oh well!