Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
You will have to earn 25,000 PQMs and $3,000 PQDs (unless you have a credit card waiver or international resident) by Dec 31,2018 and then you have to start all over.
You correctly understand what PQDs are -- it depends on the flights and airport involved how much the fees are. The deep discount economy flights it may only be 70% of the total fare but for me it tends to 85% or more for most of my domestic flights.
For an all UA domestic trip, the first item in the pricing calulation on the emailed receipt, "Airfare" is the PQD.
Ah I see, so basically back to square one. I have four flights booked next year for Jan-Feb and May (but for simplicity sake, we can go with 2 flights): 6,149 and 5,067 PQM for each. I can't exactly calculate the PQDs as they're from Star Alliance airlines (EVA Air & ANA/NH) and they don't show the PQD's, so that brings me almost half way there for PQMs... but unsure on PQDs
Would you suggest an all-out buy (Premium Economy or even First Class) for any earlier flights just to get a good head start on PQM/PQDs?