Originally Posted by
Slouchman
"Blowing through the PQD requirement? Not a chance. Maybe for some, but I reckon for MANY, MANY current 1Ks, the $24K is way out of realistic reach.
I do maybe 12 to 14 TPAC RT/year, and have only ever been at >$24K spend once in the last 10 years. Normally hovers around $15K to $18K."
Interesting....my reaction is because I'm East Coast based, I hadn't considered West Coast. Its really easy to spend $6-9K R/T to BKK, ICN, MNL, with the higher values occurring if I fly back to the US from ICN. Still have not quite figured out why thats the case with ICN specifically.
I'm East Coast too, EWR to be specific.
But I shop around to get the best deal, and luckily for me, it's PEK not BKK (et al) that I need to get to.
I've done some fancy finagling to get the best deals so I can sit in J by driving to ZFV to catch a train back to EWR, or drive to BDL to catch a plane back to EWR.
Always been loyal to United though.
Probably averaged about 150000 miles and $16000 for the last ten+ years.
With this new change to the MP program, I am booking away from United for the first time in a VERY long time.
Scored two RT tickets in J from New York to Beijing for $1806 each.
I used to pay similar for a W fare and the GPU gamble with United. Once the GPUs ran out, it was only the P fares I could afford at about $3200 RT in J.
Failing that it was E+.