Originally Posted by
rankourabu
Status match or challenge.
Has been discussed many times. Get AS or DL to match your AC status, and then do a UA challenge
You can always accumulate UA and use your AC benefits (boarding, lounge) until you get gold on UA.
The new earning scheme will severely affect your mileage earnings on UA though. A $1000 ticket to SIN will only earn 5000 miles at first. That will hurt, on a roundtrip of over 20000 miles.
Status mileage hasnt changed, and you will indeed be 1K after 5 trips to SIN.
So what do you want, status benefits? guaranteed economy plus? redeemable miles?
Once 1K, you will get 6 upgrades that you can use on W fares or higher. (3 RTs)
They will status match via challenge off your AC 50K. They did for me. I am now 1K, and have not looked back. When I asked, I was holding a confirmed and paid for ticket to HKG. Benefits took effect immediately, challenge was
20K in 3 months, that was accomplished off the first flight. Even as a PM gold, I found they bent the rules from time to time to make sure things worked out for my travels. It was kinda of cool being addressed by name on the Premier line, more often than not, and being thanked for my loyalty to UA.