That's a pain. As it is, I can never work out how CO computes its revenue compared to the price I pay for the ticket. I found it very convenient to see the total on the website. It even encouraged me to fly more because I realized milestone was close.

Wonder why they are getting rid of it ??

Conceivably it is because they have no way in 2011 of tracking accrued UA revenue. Hm. Nope, that wouldn't make sense, because they still have to know when to issue the award.

This PPLat benefit actually had significant value. To offset its loss, might I suggest that PPLat/GS customers be allowed to add a companion online sometime before the last EUA sweep? While not the same kind of benefit, it would have significant value.

Maybe there were too many issues with the numbers that were posted, & it was easier to close that customer service issue!:eek: I imagine that this is also in line with the tracking complications, and what info. CO/UA choose to make available to its customers on the website(s)!

I have a feeling it was more around UA's corporate contracts. I think UA has a lot more contracts than CO does, and UA did not want to jeopardize them by publishing a revenue target. Travel managers tend to hate that because it encourages people directly to spend more money, when their goal is to get people to spend less money.

In addition, the "invitation only" approach allows UA to target behaviors they specifically want and have variable targets by market (e.g., in DFW or ATL they may require a lesser spend than say SFO because they want to poach AA or DL business).

Interesting -- sounds plausible to me! I agree that it's clear that, going forward, things are not going to be the way many of us have become accustomed to -- change is underfoot!

CO simply expects you to spend $25k in December.

touché :)

My 2 cents worth. I'm OK with all of the changes except one. The restricted SWUs are next to worthless for me. I made the 100,000 mile mark this year and was very excited to do so. The 4 SWU were a great incentive. What a downer to learn that the SWU are only going to be good on the more expensive tickets. The SWUs earned in 2010 are still good on any fare though, right? Also I feel for the UA folks that are worried about losing E+, I still have my fingers crossed that will be adopted by the new United.

But she appears to be doing so from a CO seat, is this a non-announcment announcment about the seats? :eek:

Do we have any idea about combining UA's life-time miles and CO's as well as the RDMs in the two account? How would CO go about doing this? I have few in CO and UA account and I am really hoping that CO and UA accounts can be combined in 2011 or 2012 so I can pool the mileage in the two accounts!

AFAIK, UA GS will be behind CO PPlats and Plats, but ahead of UA 1Ks and CO Golds for EUA until both programs are merged.

Well, it is up to you... This is probably the only time you will be able to earn unrestricted CO SWUs [2010 SWUs will be good on any fare], so I would probably go for 100K on CO for this year.

I am pretty sure they will, however, what I am not sure about is will it still be EQM based [CO] or BIS based [UA]?

If they chose the BIS option, I hope they will still count lifetime EQMs we have accrued in the past towards MM.

Thanks for the input .... even though the big domestic pump that I was used to may not be happening (IND/IAH/SJC/IAH/IND) .... I will just use the garden hose approach of IND-ABE-IND ..... and figure out how to make it the last hunk ...

Though the 120 EQP for top status is a serious PiTA given the AA EXP 100 EQS equivalent .... 25 weeks of flying on AA vs. 30 weeks on CO .... if there was only 55 weeks in a year ... :)

Scratch that, I apparently read right over the part where they didn't start awarding them until 75k.

You're running out of places to run. CoNited's SWU's still blow DL's out of the water. DL customers would salivate if they had CoNited's equivalent of these.