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Old Dec 13, 2018, 6:38 am
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flyerbjorn
 
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Originally Posted by Anon2018
About to book an April long-haul vacation, and trying to decide if I should wait to see if I get GS to be able to upgrade award tickets, etc.

My 2018 has been 103,458 PQM, 23 PQS, and $42,742. Not entirely sure for BIS, but most of my flights have been in business class, so probably around 60,000 BIS. 2017 I was only Gold status with maybe $17k PQD. What are my chances of getting Global Services this year?
Assuming the April trip isn't during some vacation peak period, I'd hold off on buying revenue tickets until Jan. If you're booking award flights, I'd book them now as a 1K.

Booking vacations as GS totally rocks. As my wife put it "I'm glad you're GS, because the benefits are really for me".
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