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.
+1. It's typically more costly to hit 1K via EQS than EQM - in both $ and time. Not sure why the segment flyer is being punished. The CR-1 situation sucks too but it is what it is; everyone except the extreme 1K flyers take the hit here together.
The 120 EQS is more of a slap in the face because UA is telling me even though I spend more time and $ than some other 1Ks who fly 100k miles, I'm suddenly not as worthy.
