Originally Posted by
mysticalice
I was pretty proud of the amount i paid for the higher PQPs, hopefully going to be at 2500 PQP for a <$1200 itinerary, in premium economy.
Let me know your thoughts, and whether i'm calculating it correctly please
I agree with
findark that you're probably overestimating the UA flights a bit, but otherwise you have it correct. I'm glad to see that there was a discount PE flight that fit your budget.
Whereas discount economy does not provide a big PQP->$ value, discount PE and discount business class often do.
Originally Posted by
findark
No worries - I've been out of the game long enough I was legitimately unsure if something had changed
Nope, just a vague recollection that, at one time, the least-expensive fare class on LH didn't earn miles, and the many surprised individuals who found out about it the hard way.
But that was a K fare, and it's been quite a while since that was a problem.
Originally Posted by
findark
Some portion of the fare is assigned to the UA segment and you earn that. No way to know, and I would not hold out hope on it being much of anything.
Right. UA has never published the formula that they use, so it's impossible to know whether or not they get it right.
It's loosely based upon distance and the underlying fare. If OP is starting from someplace on the east coast, I suspect that the PQP values for those flights will be under $50 each.