I've booked 3 P fares next year to requalify for Premier Gold, all 3 TATL. Two of them are SFO-LHR round-trip direct, which allows me to book separate flights to the destinations I really want to go to. Would have netted about $6000 PQD.

This was all before the big changes -- devaluation? -- announced last Friday.

I was going to book another flight in late August or September, another P fare to SFO-LHR if the sale fares held up.

But it wouldn't be enough for me to qualify for Premier Gold in 2021, because I wouldn't have enough PQFs, since I avoided connecting TATL routes whenever I could.

Of course I could pay a $4-5k fare to qualify but there's no way that makes any kind of sense.

If I booked AC flight, it would work out but a longer trip, even with a connection through YVR. That is assuming that you'd net a lot more PQPs flying non-016, non-UA flights on *A, especially with the P-fare bonus, unless UA changes those rules again at the last minute for people trying to plan a year out ahead.

*A Gold is useful but assuming I can always find TATL P fares under $2700, I guess I wouldn't need *A benefits on those flights.

Who knows what kind of changes they will make for 2021.

Many FTers have said they will be free agents. Too bad we can't have polls in threads to try to get an approximate quantification.

Some have suggested switching to AS but their partner network is weak for TATL and it seems like a lot of complaints about CX TPAC award availability too.

So bother to this one additional purchase for Premier Gold qualification or bail and try to get status-matched and use this late summer/early fall trip to start on qualifying with another program?