Originally Posted by
Mike Jacoubowsky
Oh, one thing I did choke on in that announcement- 120EQS for 1K. To my way of thinking, the threshold for miles should be higher and the threshold for EQS lower, if you wanted to make it an equivalent "accomplishment" for paid flying. What are they afraid of? The cheapest way to get 1K on the EQS plan is not only painful, but costly. 60 round trips on a cheap corridor, figuring the cheapest possible flights... let's say SFO-LAX because I'm familiar with that... 60 round trips at $120 each for $7200. And that's terribly unrealistic; more likely half of the flights are going to be in the $170-$220 range. You can achieve 1K at 100k EQMs considerably cheaper than that.
Exactly my issue as that is a flight I do a LOT and often pay a tad more on UA than Virgin or Southwest. (In many cases, in fact, LAX-OAK would be more convenient for me but I go out of my way and pay for bart to stay on UA) I also often fly LAX-SFO-ACV and back, and that is an EXPENSIVE round trip with low mileage but at least its a 4 segment round trip.
I'm not liking this 120 eqs at all (and I've already written 1k voice to complain). Not that it really matters as next year I'll be 2P anyway but it looked like next year I may be able to push for 1P and hopefully 1K?