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Old Jan 3, 2025 | 1:52 pm
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Aussienarelle
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Originally Posted by mfirst
Towards the end of 2024 (as some of you know from my previous posts), it was clear that I was going to miss 1K by a few segments and/or a few thousand dollars - so, since there was not a reasonable option for an addition $4k in spend in December, I started changing my flights from 2 PQF trips (each way) to 3 PQF....instead of CLE-DEN-OGG, I changed to CLE-IAD-SFO-OGG (surprisingly, got a bunch of CPU's on that!).... and now, I am adding extra segments if I am not in a real rush to get somewhere and I can rationalize in my own mind that it is giving me more options as I fight to status again,.....is this really what we (and UA) have in mind for their program?
Originally Posted by kirkwoodj
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Originally Posted by jsloan
No, of course it isn’t. Ant outside of FlyerTalk, I suspect the number of people intentionally adding segments to achieve status is quite small — a rounding error on their overall flyer population.
I think UA is very okay with this as when I look at mileage tickets it is usually less miles if there are more connections. I agree PQF criteria is for those of us in non-hub locations. But multi segments on mileage tickets has been the norm for so many years.
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