On June 7th Sun Country announced ‘enhancements’ to their Ufly program, anybody that has been in this hobby for awhile will shudder at the word enhancement as it’s generally marketing speak for a devaluation of a rewards program. Unfortunately this case is no different. We’ve only briefly covered Sun Country before as they are a smaller region airline based out of Minneapolis/St. Paul (their credit card has a healthy sign up bonus of 40,000 points)
Changes
- Members can now earn up to 10 Ufly points for each $1 spent (not sure what it was previously)
- You can book flights with a mixture of cash + points
It addition to this it looks like award flight costs are now tied strictly to the cash price of the ticket (similar to the system that Southwest airlines uses). Before it seemed to be a mixture of this, some unpublished award charts and whatnot, but there was less emphasis on the cash ticket price.
How Much Are Points Worth?
This depends on the date you want to travel, premium dates will set you back 130 points per $1 (0.769¢ per point) and standard dates will cost 110 points per $1 (0.909¢ per point). You can view the redemption table below:
Our Verdict
Previously their credit card could provide up to $700+ in value from flights, now that it’s tied to the ticket price the best you can do is $363.9 and a minimum value of $307.9 if you fly during the premium times. Still decent value, but maybe not as good as before. You can read more about their credit card here.
Hat tip to ilikelogic on /r/awardtravel
