Originally Posted by
ctownflyer
The exclusion of cc spending from this promo is especially surprising given that it would take $72K of UA cc spend to earn the 3K PQP for 1K, while AA will extend my EXP status for a mere $15K in AA cc spending.
depends on the motive.
seems like UA doesn’t want people just to earn PQPs - they want them to earn it from
flying. The promotion seems to primarily incentivize flying to earn. And flying on UA/UAX metal. With that in mind, probably not that surprising.
if UA didn’t care about that, why even bother with CC spending - they could have just extended status like DL did.
I suppose there is the slight incentive for credit card spend with the PQF bonus from. For me, I don’t need it and it actually is going to discourage me from spending on my card - I was going to need 500 PQM to requalify (for silver) the regular way. But with my planned fall flying, I’ll get it via the promotion, and go back to using the UA card where it earns the same/more than my other cards.