afan
Honorary Bus Driver
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2014
UR transfers to Southwest RR 1:1, and I think only in 1,000 point increments. So you could transfer 80,000 points to SW. The SW flights should be showing up in the chase UR portal, I have never booked that way before so not sure what you would need to search.
Positives for booking directly with SW on RR points is you rebook if the flight drops and you get RR points back into your account, not a travel refund that you only have 1 year to use or loose.
Positives for booking directly with UR portal-counts as a cash booking so you should earn RR points for the flight.
You are in a hard situation as you don't have enough points to transfer to cover the flights, not sure what would be best at this point and how much it would cost to buy the additional needed points.
Southwest doesn't sell their flights on any travel portal so you can't book them through the chase portal either. It's best to transfer to SW and book that way. Not sure if it still works but I think you used to be able to call and book SW flights that way but it doesn't seem worth it since you could do it yourself.