Originally Posted by
escapefromphl
They offered "buy-backs" in previous years in two formats:
- Buy PQM starting at a few hundred to several thousand $ depending on how many you need to reach the previous threshold.
- A pay to challenge format, with different prices and targets up to 35K BIS miles (not PQM) to retain the old status.
I suspect we will see one or a variation of one of these before the end of the month.
United should acknowledge that their bumbling last year cost a lot of passengers a lot of heartache, and smart travellers chose to avoid them during the transition time as a result. They should then be lenient on travellers who have dropped a level... I have been 1K for 6 years straight but because of a couple miserable United months I only hit 90K miles in 2012. Would be nice if they gave a gesture to people. I guess we all know they will not, though.