UA SFO MR deals before March 1 program change
 

Hi, I'm looking for any mileage run deals from SFO (preferable weekend). Ideally before 3/1. Thanks!

More details are needed.
How many miles? US/TCON/TATL/TPAC?
Visa or passport restrictions?

Welcome to FlyerTalk nilspeder! I have edited the title for clarity. I think like many other UA flyers we will try to book as many MRs in the first two months of the year in order to get the RDMs on inexpensive fares.

Pat89339
Moderator, Mileage Run Forum

No real restrictions, other than being able to be accomplished over the weekend (Friday evening to Monday morning). No real preference on geography. I have a Norwegian passport and Green card, so most places you can get visa free with a US passport, in addition to Brazil, would be an option.

:lurk:

UA:$412 SFO-SJU (San Juan, PR) 9286mi
 

So far, best I can find for a weekend is:

UA:$412 SFO-SJU (San Juan, PR) 9286mi 4.4cpm
Sat 31 Jan
UA1457 SFO-IAH 0604-1147
UA1423 IAH-EWR 1431-1900
UA1241 EWR-SJU 2001-0059(+1d)
Sun 1 Feb
UA1531 SJU-EWR 0056-0511
UA1494 EWR-IAH 0855-1205
UA1749 IAH-SFO 1255-1524

Doesn't sound so good, but may make more sense with more status.

For example, if you're 1K, you get 100% RDM bonus...which means you're paying 2cpm for 18572RDM, and an additional 0.4cpm for 9286PQM (and 350 PQD). Significantly better than Accelerator rates.

From Mar 1 on, you will be getting mileage based on PQD. So for 1K, it's 11x $350 = 3850RDM, or less than a quarter of the current model. So if 2cpm for 3850RDM, then that means 3.6cpm for 9286PQM. So PQM costs nine times as much!

So even for an L-fare, it seems there is a huge difference flying before Mar 1.

I'm not having much luck finding lower fares for longer distances. Best I see to Europe is to ARN and OSL (coincidentally)...which a Norwegian should have no problem with. :)

Good luck!

looking for some mileage runs here as well but no date restrictions
sfo-anywhere

thanks

UA: $826.30 SFO-DXB for 1/29-2/1 (19,788 miles; 4.17 cpm)
 

Hello! This is my first post, so let me know if I need to add any additional information. I can also guest 2 people to the SFO Centurion Lounge.

UA: $826.30 SFO-DXB 4.17 cpm

Thu 29 Jan
UA 1027 SFO-IAH 0842-1432
UA 321 IAH-IAD 1559-1958
UA 976 IAD-DXB 2215-2015(30JAN)

Sun 01 Feb
UA 977 DXB-IAD 0105-0655
UA 762 IAD-IAH 0815-1045
UA 1727 IAH-SFO 1132-1404

Wow! Joined more than 5 years ago and this was the first post?

Just booked a variant of this for ~$350.. sat here for 30+ minutes trying to get Hipmunk to price it out with the stops and price I wanted, and .bomb gave me what ITA said was true on the FIRST TRY. Classic.

The Friday evening, back Sunday is a fairly big limiter to long distance MR's.

Best I could come up with was SFO-HKG-GUM departing 13.25 Friday arriving Sunday 05.30. Then returning GUM-HNL-LAX-SFO, departing 07.00 Sun and arriving 08.25 Sunday thanks to crossing the date line.

15,888 miles at 5.6cpm. Not great but at least you rack up some miles.

IAD-DXB is a 777 that you will want to kill yourself after flying 14 hours on. It's 3-3-3 in Econ and Econ plus and I think 4 bathrooms for over 200 seats in Y.

Agree, I would not recommend a quick turnaround. Stay for a day at one of the hotels to rest, do some indoor skiing, visit the mall and Burj Khalifa, etc. before you board the flight back to the US.