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Old Jun 10, 2014 | 11:10 am
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Originally Posted by edcho
I can see how status can be rolled into that. How does COS get rolled into it?

$500 x 1.5 COS x 11 1K Elite?
No. No more class of service bonus. You spend $500 as a 1K, you get 11 x $500 = 5,500 miles, no matter what your class of service is. (Plus perhaps the 2 miles/$ you get from your UA CC spend. I choose to exclude those since they don't matter for the purposes of comparison.)
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