cruser1

For those of you in Hawaii trying to maintain status with United MileagePlus, here's an opportunity to earn PQP's at a reasonable price. At the beginning of June you can fly Air Canada from Kahului (OGG) to Calgary (YYC) with a connection in Vancouver (YVR) for $274 roundtrip. On a few of those dates, you can book an itinerary with an immediate return to make this a mileage run for $274-$305.

However, the cheapest ticket is actually the worst value for this mileage run. These tickets all book into the G fare code and Air Canada's Basic Fare earns 25% mileage in MileagePlus. The Standard, Flex, and Comfort fares, while more expensive, will award higher mileage for a small increment in price! The breakdown is posted below. The best deal is to choose the Comfort option, but that's also the most expensive, so it's up to you!
Air Canada Partner Page at United - https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...ir-canada.html

One last thing - It may be cheaper to book two one-way tickets to accomplish this run. Google Flights will display the price for separate tickets and one ticket, if you choose to book that way.

You can increase mileage by adding an additional connection in each direction for a similar cost, for example - OGG-YVR-YEG-YYC-YEG-YVR-OGG

OGG-YVR-YYC-YVR-OGG
6194 miles flown

Booked as 2 Separate Tickets
OGG-YVR-YYC
25% - Basic - $121
50% - Standard - $146 (20.6612% increase)
75% - Flex - $232 (91.7355% increase)
100% - Comfort - $297 (145.4545% increase)

YYC-YVR-OGG
25% - Basic - $151
50% - Standard - $170 (12.5828% increase)
75% - Flex - $234 (54.9669% increase)
100% - Comfort - $282 (86.7550% increase)

PQP's Earned (table displays the number of award miles / PQP's awarded for each fare type


Cost per PQP
Basic - (121+151) * 100 / 309 = 88.026 cents
Standard - (146+170) * 100 / 619 = 51.050 cents
Flex - (232+234) * 100 / 929 = 50.161 cents
Comfort - (297+282) * 100 / 1238 = 46.769 cents

Google Flights
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...hSo6zt5TiHKXd8


Complete Itinerary on Google Flights

First Flight to Book - OGG to YYC

Second Flight to Book - YYC to OGG

cruser1

After looking at what United awards members for Air Canada flights some more, I'm guessing my calculation for the "Standard" fare above is wrong. It's an overestimate. United awards 25% mileage for the G fare code on domestic Canadian flights when you choose the Standard fare. That probably means you'll receive 50% mileage for OGG-YVR, but only 25% mileage for YVR-YYC.

The Basic, Flex, and Comfort calculations should ask be correct!

whitethunder

wow not a bad MR I was trying to get some segments in to hit 1K again this year and this works for the price thanks OP

Pilotman13

Ive been looking at doing a run almost exactly like this with the addition of LAX some amazing deals between YYZ-OGG

rankourabu

Keep in mind prices are same from YXU (and 2 extra PQF), and cheaper to YQG. You can hidden city