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Apr 3, 2010 | 2:49 am
#16
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: HKG/MEX
Programs: DL/PM/2MM TK*G
Posts: 199
Does anyone know that CO has adjusted MM program in line with UA yet?
I heard CO now offers gold elite for 1MM to match with UA 1MM but I am not sure if it is true.
I heard CO now offers gold elite for 1MM to match with UA 1MM but I am not sure if it is true.
Apr 3, 2010 | 8:21 am
#18
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: PSM
Posts: 69,232
If there is any coordination of those benefits it'll likely be after the merger.
Apr 3, 2010 | 8:40 am
#19
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Central Florida
Programs: Bonvoy-Gold, HH-Gold, UA-Gold, *A-Gold, Hyatt-Discoverist
Posts: 2,046
I beg to differ. I'll use myself as an example. I'm 24, with still a ways to go until I hit MM. But I plan to travel quite a bit for the next 5-10 years. If I hit MM by the time i'm 35, i'll have at least Silver for the rest of my life. So if from 35-50 I only average a few thousand miles a year, but then at 50 I want to take my family on vacation I'll still have those Silver benefits (It's not much, but it's something)
Your:
5 Year Average (per Year): 175,796 EQMs
6 Year: 146,497 EQMs
7 Year: 125,569 EQMs
8 Year: 109,873 EQMs
9 Year: 97,665 EQMs
10 Year: 87,898 EQMs
I would say 10-15 years if you healthily overshoot plat every year; longer if you just make 75K or have sub-75K years.
Good Luck. I have been flying pretty regularly since I have been 24 also and I will be 39 next week; I average 50K-75K a year; still at least 5-7 years away from MM for myself. It just might take longer than you think unless you have some uber job that you buy BF/FC/Y/B fares regularly and do 60-75K BIS.
Go for it! But I think 10-15 years in more realistic than 5-10, though. But, as always YMMV, and what do I know, I may just be a bitter old man.
- HF