The extra award availability in Y for elites is quite helpful. My CO redemptions have (IIRC) always had at least one segment in that bucket.
Originally Posted by
Red_Rob
On a flight reservation I have it offers 30K with elite maximizer for $1350. At those rate you could be a 1K next year for <$4000. I will make 1K EQM in a few weeks so I didn't take advantage of it.
I'm also getting an offer for 30k miles at $1350, but that's only if I spend $900 on 30k RDMs, for a total of $2250 (on a reward ticket). Is that the offer you see? If so, those EQMs cost 7.5cpm.
Originally Posted by
ijgordon
And putting aside challenges vs. Matches, I think the airlines have become smarter about matches - requiring proof of flight activity / status qualification, not just proof of freebie status. OP is probably OOL.
When I did a match to CO 4 years ago I faxed over a copy of my US card and a year's worth of FF activity. While it would not be too hard to forge that stuff, checking for earned (via flying) status in this way would prevent most attempts to match based on freebie status.
Had CO required a challenge, I probably would have stuck with US. That would have been a mistake, but that's what I would have done.