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Jul 15, 2012 | 3:06 pm

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Originally Posted by SFOTurtle

I'm curious, how does the buy up program normally work? I seem to recall offers being extended at the end of the year if there was a delta to make the next status level, but assumed this was for folks who were close (5-10K PQM) and not something to buy up 2 status levels.

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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA

you can purchases PQMs anytime now - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/conti...izer-rate.html

Yeah it's pretty amazing - you can fly zero miles BIS during a calendar year and spend about $10-$15K to be 1K the following year. This *is* a change from PMUA to UA that I do like, even if I've yet to do it. The technique is to book a fully-refundable ticket, then buy the RDM & PQM, then cancel the fully-refundable ticket.

Thanks for the advice so far - if my wife remains 2P and I'm 1P, and we travel as a family of 3, then only 2 of us can get E+ seating during booking, and the chances of getting E+ 1 day before the flight depend on E+ availability at that time. And I'm not sure if I really want to sit in E- during a flight... we tend to fly to/from SFO, which is elite-heavy, thus many PAX already in E+ (or so I think)...

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