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Jan 2, 2014 | 3:49 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by XCstud

If you fly LX, but the ticket is issued by UA (buy it on UA's website) you'll earn PQDs. You'd have to spend $25k on the credit card to get the PQD waiver.

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/con...alify.aspx#pqd

You also need to make sure that the LX fare your ticket is going into is eligible to earn miles. I'm not sure if all the TATL fare buckets earn miles, but I've flown intra-European flights that didn't qualify

https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/Mar...spx?ItemId=297

you're absolutely right. intra-europe never gets mils on mileageplus. transatlantic has always qualified.

seems like without any status any other *A (miles&more, ana, aeroplan) gives 50% miles. except for mileageplus, which is 100%. so either stick with another *A and grind it out till status, while wasting miles, or go with mileageplus, get the full miles, and worry about status other ways.

i think mileageplus wins either way.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaptainMiles

Be very careful with the booking classes.

The cheapest class published for that route is L. L earns 25% (933 per segment) on M&M but 0 on MileagePlus. Interestingly, L earns 50% (1867 per segment) on A3, so if you fly a lot of L you may want to credit to A3.

You say that miles&more offers only half of the miles of united this year. That happens only for classes Q/S/V/W, and those are at least $200 more expensive than L. Are you planning on flying mostly Q/S/V/W?

good point! i mostly get tix 1-2 weeks in advance, and at that time the cheapest have usually been s, w, or t. will have to be careful for the L.

Last edited by iluv2fly; Jan 3, 2014 at 2:19 am Reason: merge

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