Randy--thank you for your comments on this. Factual information based thoughts is what I was looking for.
I'll have 140,000 UA miles by the end of this month and probably 180,000 but the end of this year. So much for the lower elite levels (two years in a row for me). Maybe there is something that can be done for those of us who ACUTALLY do reach the elite levels?
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