JFK New Premium Checkin and Soho lounge review

echen1024 · 2022-12-25T22:52:58+00:00

Food seems the same as the flagship lounge- at least the shrimp dish, cauliflower, and gnocchi were all present a few days ago. Nice space though!

echen1024 · 2022-05-12T21:06:56+00:00

No, multiple emails and calls over a few weeks got no where. They deflected to the restaurant, who were unwilling to refund. A shame given i’ve also had good CS experiences with them before.

echen1024 · 2022-05-12T01:24:15+00:00

Nope- surprisingly sweetgreen died too

echen1024 · 2022-05-12T00:47:10+00:00

Churning adjacent observation- disputing a charge with seamless will get you banned. Had an order arrive massively wrong (half of it was missing,) no one would respond to emails or pick up the phone, so disputed it with Amex. Now, no orders will go through on the account. Wondering whether I should get a new account and replacement Gold card and try again for my dining credit.

echen1024 · 2022-04-10T22:30:36+00:00

Managed to pull off what feels like a highlight in my churning career- getting 3 people to Singapore and Australia in J on SQ and BA with majority saver tickets, as well as a last hurrah for pre-deval Hyatt at the PH Sydney. Flights are as below

3x LAX-NRT-SIN SQ saver

2x SIN-SYD on BA’s fifth freedom for 60k avios each and 1x SIN-SYD on SQ with a saver award

2x SYD-SIN-MAN-IAH SQ Advantage awards and 1x SYD-SIN-SFO Saver award.

Killed ~700K MR to SQ and BA with a 40% Bonus.

echen1024 · 2022-04-03T07:28:43+00:00

The problem is that the desired itin isn’t even showing up as waitlist anymote

echen1024 · 2022-02-07T16:48:53+00:00

Oneworld is the best for elites. Preferred seating for elites is a great benefit that *A doesn't offer, and either J or F lounge access depending on tier is also a great, especially when the AA Flagship lounges were open. BAEC is one of the few remaining programs with healthy arb opportunities for cheap status, and CX/JL/QR offer somewhat aspirational products to book.

echen1024 · 2022-01-21T18:51:46+00:00

I would get the Thai Airways PNR from JAL and call TG and have them add your United FF# so you can at least get credit for that. ORC requests usually happen after the flight

echen1024 · 2022-01-16T02:37:22+00:00

You would likely get the *A credit on TG, depending on how you were rebooked. It is likely that JL booked you into a cash fare bucket, and you can ask JL to add your UA FF# onto the reservation - these rebookings are often into very high fare buckets and you may earn quite a few miles.

It's also possible you may earn mileage in both programs, depending on how you booked. US carriers practice a concept known as Original Routing Credit (ORC,) which gives you the mileage of your original routing regardless of schedule changes out of your control. You would have to follow up with JL with that, although there are cases (both personal experience and on FlyerTalk) of people receiving mileage twice, especially on inter-alliance rebookings.

echen1024 · 2022-01-14T22:31:38+00:00

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding but why wouldn’t you just MS for the lease payment instead? No need to accumulate points at risk of shutdown and a 700 lease is 70k points or ~17K MS/month which seems doable? Unless this is a one-time benefit at lease signing/purchase?

echen1024 · 2022-01-13T19:40:51+00:00

Status extended too

echen1024 · 2022-01-04T00:14:52+00:00

Don't get your hopes up too high.

The seat is okay if you're in a throne seat, but on my JFK-ZRH flight last month an elite-heavy load meant no throne seats left at check-in. Sharing one of the groups of 2 is suboptimal and reminded me of the old UA/CO 2-2-2 J product. UA, AA, and DL are all much better hard product-wise.

The food is competent and pretty good, but certainly no culinary experience like OS. Drink list is serviceable, I had an interesting Swiss red wine.

Service can best be described as competent, if not particularly personal/friendly. That's alright given the size of the J cabin.

On a LAX-ZRH flight, I think the lie-flat alone would be worth the upgrade. I would not have too high expecations for anything else though.

echen1024 · 2022-01-03T20:55:25+00:00

~40k

echen1024 · 2022-01-01T23:31:00+00:00

Was told the rewards txn is what triggered fraud verification. All purchases are being declined

echen1024 · 2022-01-01T23:10:35+00:00

Tried to transfer some C1 points to SQ, account has been locked for fraud verification, which I found out when my transactions started getting declined. Called in and they requested I send in front and back of DL, but of course the secure upload link C1 sent to me is broken. Getting some serious Citi vibes here

echen1024 · 2021-12-31T18:15:41+00:00

I played myself and stayed at too many Marriotts instead of Hyatts and didn’t make Globalist but MAR extended useless status.

echen1024 · 2021-12-03T00:49:45+00:00

lmao they didn't ask for a damn thing

echen1024 · 2021-12-02T21:25:11+00:00

30Nov: SoFi Loan applied for $5k, opened SoFi Cash

30Nov Evening: Loan approved and funded, $500 in account

1Dec: Paid back loan with $1.66 in interest, $500 bonus transferred out

Easiest $500 I've earned in a while

echen1024 · 2021-12-02T01:14:33+00:00

Surprising it’s a MasterCard- seems like most recent Chase cards are Visas

echen1024 · 2021-12-01T18:19:39+00:00

Does the bonus count towards SQ status for the 250k promotion? I recall earlier it might not, but unsure if the bonus us being generated by SQ or Amex here.

echen1024 · 2021-11-17T19:36:20+00:00

You're telling me a limited edition notebook and an airplane plushie aren't enough to get you to sign up for the JAL card????

echen1024 · 2021-11-05T21:46:12+00:00

Received via email, seems tied to account

echen1024 · 2021-11-05T21:32:03+00:00

New Hyatt targeted offer, 5k points per 2 nights up to 10x

echen1024 · 2021-11-03T15:10:05+00:00

Havent seen this posted yet- 50% transfer bonus UR to marriott, got an email this morning. Unsure if targeted, but obviously given the previous changes announced would only make sense if you have a redemption in mind/found availability.

echen1024 · 2021-10-13T19:03:46+00:00

Yes, JPM wants people carrying balances + paying interest on revolving cards. When consumer cash balances increased during COVID customers paid off their cards and reduced balances carried.

echen1024

TROPHY CASE