Originally Posted by Lux Flyer

Umm not quite. A good chunk of these reports are people who had no flying in 2021 either, in which case their PlusPoints are expiring January 31st 2023. The only people who have PlusPoints expiring in July are the ones who earned PlusPoints in 2021. And I suspect there is substantial overlap in people who flew enough to earn PPs in 2021 and who qualified naturally in 2022.

Did you not receive and get to use your 1K benefits while flying during that time? On top of getting your PlusPoints extended, and having qualifying thresholds lowered, with starter options? UA has thrown US/EU based travellers their bone the past two years. Everyone is acting like UA is extending people who have been directly competing with you for priority in the boarding line or for upgrade space the past 2 years. All reports here are the people being extended are primarily Asia (China) based who have had little/no travel the past two years (so have pretty much cost United and you nothing), likely flying routes that you aren't on (since most of them have remained suspended), and are unlikely to be competing with you for upgrades even if they end up on your route as they aren't getting a new PlusPoints allotment anyways.