Originally Posted by
SS255
It's too bad that UA doesn't look at these edge cases and manually bump people up to the next status level when they take the flight which qualifies them.
UA has clear lines. Why muddy them and redraw them. Why is 20 enough to bump but not, say, 499 or 501 short?
I suppose if they wanted to complicate things they could retroactively apply status when you cross the relevant threshold, or do so if the flight provided more than 50% of the remaining miles needed (i.e., you took a 4000 mile flight when all you needed was <2000PQM).