AA/United: Fly Nonstop In Standard Economy Between Chicago And Los Angeles For Just $51 Or 2.9K Hybrid Points Each Way!

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• Also bookable on Orbitz or Expedia.
• Limited seats are available on each date.
• Always search one-way for 1 seat and then work the search up to the number of seats you need in order to book as many seats on sale as you can.
• Use a card like Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card or Sapphire Reserve to earn 2-3 Chase points per dollar spent and get free trip cancellation/interruption insurance, travel accident insurance, luggage insurance, trip and luggage delay protection, and more!
• American and United are not blocking seats, but you can always buy an extra seat if you want to guarantee an empty seat next to you by making the first name of the ticket EXTRASEAT with your last name. You’ll even get double your baggage allowance!
• Airlines are allowing free changes on all tickets, including basic economy tickets.

American and United have $51 fares between Chicago and Los Angeles. Discounted fares like this are typically basic economy these days, but this is a standard economy fare! That means you’ll be able to select your seat and bring a carry-on bag.

Read more in the DDF Chicago Master Thread and in the DDF Los Angeles Master Thread.

AA/United: Chicago to Los Angeles $51 dates in bold, $84-$94 dates in plain font:
September: 11 through 30
October: Entire month
November: 1 through 27
December: 1 through 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 31
January 1, 4 through 31
February 1 through 9, 10 through 31
March 1 through 10

AA/United: Los Angeles to Chicago $51 dates in bold, $84-$94 dates in plain font:
September: 11 through 30
October: Entire month
November: 1 through 27
December: 1 through 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 30. 31
January 1, 5 through 31
February 1 through 9, 10 through 31
March 1 through 10

Using Chase Points:

You can pay for the ticket with “hybrid points” such as AMEX or Chase points with a card that allows your points to be used at an increased value for airfare in addition to be able to transfer points into airline miles.

If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel. If you have a Chase Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card® Card you can redeem points for 1.25 cents each towards travel.

You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here. The cost will be 3,406 points with a Sapphire Reserve. That rate include all taxes and you will still earn flight miles as well!

Using AMEX points:

• If you have an AMEX Business Platinum Card you can get a 35% rebate of points used.
  •  You can register for an airline here.

You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.

AMEX has insider fares available, so a flight from Chicago to LA on American for example will be just 4,495 points. Plus you’ll get back a rebate of 1,573 points with the Business Platinum Card or 1,124 points with the Business Gold Card, dropping the total needed to as low as 2,922 points. That includes all taxes and you can still earn miles for flying!

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