I Prefer the Red Eye

I recently booked on UA.bomb an LAX-LHR flight. I added my OnePass # where requested but was correctly logged in as a Mileage Plus 1P when I made the ticket purchase. However, all mileage and EQM was posted to my One Pass account. I logged into CO's website and transferred the miles back to my MP account...but lost the EQM in the process. Called UA and was told that they will fix this in the new year. Problem is, this flight makes-or-breaks my getting 1K status. Did I just get screwed? Why did they post to COOP instead of UAMP in the first place?

Bluehen1

You didn't "lose" the EQM. It's just residing in the CO program and it's "combined" behind the scenes. I hit 1K again in October with about 6k miles on my CO and got my SWUs deposited shortly thereafter.

The mistake was entering your OP number anywhere at all if you only intended on having things show up in your MP account.

I Prefer the Red Eye

Thanks, bluehen! So just to clarify, the miles transferred back to my Mileage Plus account but the "status qualification" did not. I should just sit tight until January?

sbm12

Because your accounts are linked they are calculating the combined EQMs in the background. No need to worry at all.

I Prefer the Red Eye

Yay! Thanks....

ssh

To clarify one point: when you look at your EQM on your OP account, you see the ones you earned on those flights, right?

AZjohns

That's exactly what I was going to ask. If OP says no, then this is a whole different situation.

sbm12

Seem like it:

lhiltz

Continuing on from this post...I have EQM in both OP and MP and yes, I keep a spreadsheet of my miles. Am I correct that at year end these 2 sets of EQM will be added together to make 1K. I'll get there if I can get them to credit my Colgan flights, I have asked and asked and they still have not appeared from Nov 1st...guess I have to sit on the phone for a while...and ask a real person why not

Baze

The EQM's are being added together now. If you were to pass 100K total today by adding the 2 together you would be a 1K today.

CASAFlyer

The EQMs of linked accounts are combined together behind the scenes. Posting of new SWUs is a sign that you made 1k.

I was is a similar situation: 99.5k EQMs on UA MP and 3k EQMs on CO OP. I got the new SWUs five days after passing the 100k total EQMs.

davemflyer

So I'm starting to get a little nervous...

1. ~3000 eqms were just posted to my united FF account. Despite them being booked on CO, Flown CO metal, and using CO FF#.

2. Tried to Transfer 9,000 EQMs on CO website. Other threads have indicated Flex EQMs could be used to hit 1K this year only (but not next year). It errored out with the following:

"The OnePass number you entered has already qualified for Platinum Elite status. Your Flex Elite Qualification Miles do not expire and may be used to attain Elite status in the future."

Those 3K eqms and 9K flex EQMs are what I need to hit 1K.

One Pass Service center not open until Monday.
Anyone else have these issues?

WineCountryUA

Don't worry about the 3,000 EQMs posted to MP -- the combined total of OP and MP will be used to determine status -- does not matter where they are posted.

As for the FEQMS, many have had the probelm and you need to call to get that done

emcampbe

For those worrying about the miles posted in one account instead of the other, note it might be better to hear it in this simple way: While you can transfer RDMs between linked accounts as much as you want, EQMs post and stay within the program they were earned.

Then, linked accounts, in the background, have a process by where they are totaled, for status purposes.

For example, I only earn in UA's program. When I hit 60 segments, and it showed up in my MP account around 12/13, it noted me as Prem. Exec. My CO account was still showing me as a "silver" at that time, and finally showed me as gold (with 0 miles and 0 segments) sometime last week (I think either Tuesday/Wednesday, so 12/20 or 21).

When the programs merge at the end of Q1, what is supposed to happen is all RDMs and EQMs should be combined, so you should then have 1 total.

I Prefer the Red Eye

OP here. Yes, CO shows my "Elite Qualifying Miles" for the UA.bomb-booked flights in question. But another problem, I never received double (non-EQM) miles for being UA 1P. Not sure what's up with that.

When I log into UA.bomb it says I am 7k miles short of being 1K (not true since the EQM posted to my OnePass account). But my account is listed as a 1K account. Yet a boarding pass I received for a flight yesterday still listed me as 1P.

So...I'm totally confused. Will I have potentially have to wait as long as til end of Q1 to officially show up as a 1K with the six SWUs that includes? Hope not, since I have at least two long flights planned between now and then.