Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
First, it has always been that way
Second, it should not be easy or quick to get it as it will create future issues / liabilities for the airline -- bloating the elite ranks leads to if we are all special, no one is special.
The present system was set up so it would take 20-30 years to achieve lifetime status for your nominal status level
A Gold at 50,000 miles annually -- 20 years for 1MMer, life time Gold
An 1K at 100,000 miles annually -- 30 years for 3 MMer, life time 1K (10 years for 1MM status for an 1K)
2MMer, Lifetime Plat -- a similarly 26 years
If you did UA only PQPs, and say UA returns to 18K PQPs --- you would be talk over 500K UA PQPs for Lifetime 1K, does that sound easier?
Might help for you to proposed what an alternative path might be and what would be the negative consequences of that proposal.
Under these guidelines you assume someone starts flying (for their employer mostly) at 25. This absolutely makes sense 30-40 years ago. Some of us are self made and starting this journey 10-15 years later than that, which shouldn’t matter, we just fit into a different box.
Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
for Lifetime 1K or Lifetime Gold?
20 years of 1K for Lifetime 1K would be well below the prior threshold when 1K was by elite miles
Some hotel have a room night taget and x years of certain status levels., so both requirements
so you’re telling me United wants to discourage loyalty after a certain age?