Originally Posted by HNLbasedFlyer

I agree - it is fairly simple math. If you had to choose - who do you want to make happier? The 1K who spent at least $12,000 and 100,000+ miles in a calendar year, or the less than 1K who hasn't shown the same commitment - but just happens to be first class.

UA has strong reasons to want 1K's happier. Here is the data. Another thread widely says there are probably about 100,000 1K's - if that is the case, that means $1,200,000,000+ reasons to keep that group happy - and that is based only on minium PQD