PPM -

Call the Premier desk and explain your situation - how you were ill, etc. They should give you a one time comp to Premier Exec status for 2006.

It helps if you have some booked UA flights against your MP# when you call.

I did this last year - had some health problems in '04, and only made 2P. It took two calls and requesting to talk to a Supervisor on the second, but I was given 1P status "this one time only", and from that and a bunch of travel in '05, I made 1K for the first time this year.

Do you really want to go to LRTC? Make the call to the MP PE line.