Originally Posted by
tester321
AWhat might not be so obvious is that what United is CURRENTLY doing -- giving 2 regionals for flying 10,000 miles in a calendar quarter -- is EVEN BETTER for current OnePass elites, since you can earn up to 8 regionals without getting to 75K.
Huh? Under UA's current program, you're not eligible to earn CR1s until you become 1K. How do you figure you can earn up to 8 without getting to 75K?
Don't say carryover elites in Q1 of a year: UA status has expired in January for 2 or 3 years now, which means miles flown "this year" as a "Last year 1K" don't get you anything. The CR1 sweep isn't until February or March, and you're not 1K yet at that point.
Yeah, if you made 1K in 2009 for the 2010 year, then you could 8 CR1s by end-December 2010 (really January 2011) while flying only 40,000 UA BIS miles, if you made sure that there were 10K in each quarter. But you'd end up in 2011's program (old version) as a 2P with no more CR1s, no SWUs, and in practice no EUA/UDU chance.
As I posted in the UA thread on this, for normally sub-1K UA, sub-Plat CO flyers, the new program is a much better deal. Gives the 25-40K-something flyer incentive to go for 50K EQM. Since 1K (2008-2009 programs) and CO Plat (2009-2010 programs) isn't my "natural" travel pattern anymore, I like these changes.