Originally Posted by
bocastephen
One takeaway from the Delta announcement was their ability to grab fare details from partners, eliminating any status fast track using partner flights.
This will probably tempt United to make another attempt to do the same and put non 016 tickets on earning parity.
In my limited experience, I've found it's only (economically?) advantageous to credit partner flights for 3 airlines though, AC/NH discount P fares, and SK PY fares when you factor in the cap on PQP earnings per segment. I've researched this pretty extensively at this point, and I've found UA has done a pretty good job at maintaining PQP/$ parity with partners.
I think it's more likely UA will follow DL and raise the 1K PQP figure to something like 54S+28k PQP or 35k PQP outright.