Originally Posted by
itsMoe
Not quite. He's willing to give them a chance to improve their product until then. Should that happen, he'll stick with them and benefit from MM status. If not, he'll walk, and essentially trade 6-9 months of subpar UA for a lifetime of *G.
He can just fly 20,000 miles on a much superior airline like SQ and credit to A3 and get the same thing assuming he/she flies *A at least once every 3 years.