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Old Apr 19, 2012 | 5:27 pm
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netd
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Regional Vic, Australia
Programs: BAEC Gold, UA*G, former BD*LG :-(
Posts: 250
Originally Posted by T6JSA
Are any *A carriers offering a tier-match to tempt over some DC members? I'm still not sure who to go to, so something like this would probably help sway my decision.

T6
At worst I'm hoping to score a UA mileage "challenge" when DC finally leaves *A. This is not a straight up status match and I've already asked them (somewhere back in this thread) but the good folks over at UA told me I'd have to wait until bmi/DC fully leaves *A before they will accept me.

At best they'll sweep up orphaned DC members with some kind of special offer and a straight up match.

UA is far from the best FFP but for me the main attractors right now are:
- non expiry of miles
- one way redemptions (compared to US)
- nice bonuses once you have status with them and fly UA metal (25%,50%,75%,100%)
- 50k for gold is pretty easy to get/maintain for me and I can probably even manage 1k with a bit of effort.
- E+ on UA flights

Bad points are:
- It's UA
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