{"id":26202,"date":"2018-08-17T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/?p=26202"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:18:16","slug":"chase-ends-korean-skypass-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/news\/chase-ultimate-rewards\/chase-ends-korean-skypass-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Eliminates Korean Air As Ultimate Rewards Transfer Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chase has announced that Korean Air will no longer be an <a href=\"\/credit-cards\/chase-ultimate-rewards\/chase-transfer-partners\/\">Ultimate Rewards transfer partner<\/a> effective August 25, 2018. For anyone that has redeemed with Korean, this is a definite hit to the value of Ultimate Rewards.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-aspectratio=\"4000\/3000\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8115 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4785.jpg\" alt=\"Korean Air A380 First Class Bar\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4785.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4785-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4785-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4785-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4785-276x207.jpg 276w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4785-476x357.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><center><em>Korean Air A380 First Class Bar<\/em><\/enter><\/figure>\n<p>The move is disappointing since Korean Air has some <a href=\"\/airlines\/korean-air-award-chart\/\">great redemption sweet spots<\/a>, including flights to Europe on Sky Team partners, as well as <a href=\"\/travel\/airlines\/book-hawaii-with-points\/\">some of the best value on flights to Hawaii<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Couple good redemption value with a <a href=\"\/airlines\/redeem-korean-air-skypass-miles\/\">relatively easy and straightforward process for award redemptions,<\/a> and family pooling, and it becomes clear how big of a hit this move by Chase is.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Take<\/h2>\n<p>However you look at it, this is terrible news. If you are a diehard Korean Air fan looking to build a mileage balance, you'll need to look to one of the co-brand credit cards issued by US Bank, or transfer points from another transfer partner, such as Marriott Rewards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/pointmetotheplane.boardingarea.com\/2018\/08\/14\/korean-air-chase-transfer-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Point Me To The Plane<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ftoc\"><!--TOC--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase has announced that Korean Air will no longer be an Ultimate Rewards transfer partner effective August 25, 2018. For anyone that has redeemed with Korean, this is a definite hit to the value of Ultimate Rewards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12069],"tags":[12786,12709,12625],"coauthors":[36383],"class_list":["post-26202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chase","tag-chase-ultimate-rewards","tag-partners-and-alliances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255172,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26202\/revisions\/255172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26202"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}