FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Changes to MileagePlus Award and Upgrade Policies - Eff. 3-Feb-2014
Old Nov 1, 2013, 6:53 am
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whakojacko
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Wow this is a massacre. I'm fortunate that I mostly fly SFO-JFK, where I have lots of choices. MP was basically the only reason I dealt with UA, and it just became much less of a reason

Originally Posted by vforni
I'm guessing awards that are mostly on United metal, but the last leg is on *A to a destination United doesn't serve....those get charged the full amount?

For example EWR-HKG-SIN (UA) - BWN (MI)

So in that case, really no incentive to keep the first part on UA metal it would seem
Yea thats going to kill premium awards to Europe as well. Even if you take UA on the TATL segments, for a lot of destinations you need to take LH...

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