Originally Posted by
mike2003242
With the price of long haul J going up dramatically I wouldn't be surprised if the minimums went up. I could realistically see new qualifications be in the mid 60s with requals lower at 50. I would also assume UA may gift GS one more year to previous long term GS as they don't want to lose that business.
INTL: While prices did go up mid summer, that's not the case for the entire year. If you figure the first 3 months were pretty light loads due to Omnicron / countries not opening up, and in Q2 prices were quite competitive - I paid $5K RT business for multiple flights to UK and Portugal when in the past the fares would be $7K+, I doubt there's been enough spend in the last 4 months to result in an uptick in qualification threshold to the mid 60's. My guess would be 45-50 range, but we won't know until the invites go out Late December/January.
Personally I'm just hoping for new baggage tags (!) as I'm tired of seeing "2020 - Denver" hanging off my bag. Just bizarre that they did that for GS's (rotating cities on GS baggage tags, regardless of where you are actually based) - hopefully it's a standard 2023 GS bag tag with no city designator. But I'm probably dreaming about getting anything!