Originally Posted by
UAzip
The status tracker web site shows boxes checked through Platinum (my existing level) but the card in the app shows 1/2022 still; makes me think they did not extend it but there is a bug in the status web site.
They extended the 40 Plus Points to mid-2022 but if not Platinum, can they even be used after 1/31/22? (Why extend the points if someone can't use them? Or is that the point?)
It is very confusing with the mixed signals and paradoxes.
I have Gold in the bag with PQPs to spare with flights later this month and the Breakout Bonus/Fly to the Finish, but no idea if they mean to extend me or not...
Have had some kind of status since 2010; Plat in 2016-17 and since 2019. Gold many of the other years.
If they'd stop canceling meetings (they already announced that traditionally in-person meetings NEXT MARCH I would have booked by now will be virtual!) it would be a lot easier to fly.
Raises an interesting question for anyone with PP who didn't (re)qualify.
But I don't see the obstacle to using PPs as a gold or silver, other than your status. It's like a mileage upgrade - you'd apply the PP and it would put you on the WL as instrument supported. But you'd just be that much further down the list (below 1K/Plat).
Slightly OT - I've always thought GPUs/PPs shouldn't expire, even if you don't requalify. Let people use them like mileage upgrades as described. Obviously you don't earn more - but so what if you (try to) spend them a year later.