Originally Posted by
RobOnLI
I'd expect it to work like everything else at United. The PP's are not tagged as GS or 1K PP's. They are simply PP's. Your GS or 1K status only matters when you APPLY the PPs. So if you earn 320 as GS and apply them to a reservation as GS then you are waitlisted for PN. Assuming nothing changes with the reservation United can't be bothered "does current status equal applied status at time of PP application?" So you clear into PN, regardless of current status.
However, if you fall to 1K the following year and you somehow rollover a bunch of PPs and apply those PPs to a reservation then they are applied as "1K PPs" and you are waitlisted for PZ.
This is no different than someone who earns 280 PPs for hitting 1K and then subsequently that year hits GS thanks to their big spend. All of the PPs applied after hitting GS become "GS PPs". I would suspect any PPs applied to reservations *before* the account is upgraded to GS are stuck waitlisted for PZ and would have to be withdrawn and re-applied to waitlist for PN thanks to GS status.
-RM
This makes a lot of sense actually (well, at least, it seems incredibly likely as you say based on how United IT works...whether that makes sense is irrelevant!). And would lead to a very expected but frustrating scenario if you applied PP as a GS and then dropped to 1K, had an issue with a waitlisted reservation where they had to be reapplied and suddenly found yourself waitlisted for PZ instead of PN. That sounds exactly like a United IT experience
