Originally Posted by
emcampbe
We haven't booked the PHX ticket yet, and she has the UA select card that gets PQM for purchases on UA.com, though we tend to use our Sapphire Preferred usually, due to usually traveling with 2 kids and the insurance on that card. That could be 1000 more PQM, but even with that, would still be 700 PQM short (670, to be exact).
How close is she to the 5K PQM cap from card purchases? Can you pre-purchase $670 worth of your 2019 travel before EOY?
Otherwise, yes, I'd look at creative routings to PHX.