Originally Posted by
dvs7310
Anyone who was thinking about this for UA Mileage Plus 1K (or any level for that matter), the party is over. They're doing their best to force people to fly on UA now and pay full price to earn any Premier level. It's really such an arbitrary number, 1500... almost seems like they decided it based on this particular fare, since in normal times a business class ticket is in the neighborhood of $4-5k.
UA did not decide to change their rules based on one fare from Bulgaria and Finland to the US.