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Old Apr 28, 2018, 4:28 pm
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NoLaGent
 
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Originally Posted by Kacee
If you're doing 12 $6k roundtrips per year, you're going to hit GS. In fact, you'll hit 1K during your 4th roundtrip, at which point you'll start earning 66k miles per ticket. With that kind of miles stash, you could redeem for standard UA awards, which are last seat availability.

So I think UA clearly wins on FFP and elite benefits, while CX and SQ win on schedule and in-flight product (though the 77W and Polaris lounge at SFO present a reasonable alternative).

I don't think this is an easy call at all.
You're absolutely right about the GS status, and the miles are appealing. However, a lot depends on when and for how long these 1x month trips start. If this begins next month or later, he won't be GS in 2018/2019, but if he continues at that same rate of travel, he'll have it for 2020.

In the meantime, he'll be earning a gold mine of miles, but still won't be able to CPU on his BOS trips.

It's a tough one, but I'm sticking with CX/AS in this scenario.
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