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For each request, please include the following information:
Departure Airport:
Miles Needed:
Required Spend or Maximum Budget (choose one, and state the value):
Available Travel Dates:
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay:
Route(s) You've Already Searched:
Do you have a Chinese Visa (Yes/No)?
For each response. Please quote the original request. DO NOT START A NEW THREAD.
There are many good fares to China (PEK or PVG). If you have a Chinese visa, these options will be provided.
If your requested PQM is in a few thousand, please give a more accurate amount. You will get fewer options with a roundup number (eg, 5000 instead of 4830; IAD-SFO nonstop will work for the latter.)
Departure Airport:
Miles Needed:
Required Spend or Maximum Budget (choose one, and state the value):
Available Travel Dates:
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay:
Route(s) You've Already Searched:
Do you have a Chinese Visa (Yes/No)?
For each response. Please quote the original request. DO NOT START A NEW THREAD.
There are many good fares to China (PEK or PVG). If you have a Chinese visa, these options will be provided.
If your requested PQM is in a few thousand, please give a more accurate amount. You will get fewer options with a roundup number (eg, 5000 instead of 4830; IAD-SFO nonstop will work for the latter.)
UA/Star Alliance: 2017-2018 Consolidated Mileage/Status/Challenge Runs help needed
#1576
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 24
2.) I fly a lot for work and *should* make enough PQD for the 1K. I made over $10K last year for Platinum.
3.) I am open to cost. I can go either economy or business class. I just want to make sure it is a good value for the miles.
#1577
Join Date: Jul 2018
Programs: OZ
Posts: 1
Hi Everyone,
I'm completely new to this. I've only just recently started traveling regularly enough to be thinking about miles programs and status levels. I picked up Global Entry and the APEC Business Travel Card to help ease some of the headache of it all, but I'd also like to try and get bumped up to the next tier on my miles program sooner rather than later if I can do it for reasonable cost. I'm currently "OZ Gold" (*S), the next step up is "OZ Diamond" (*G), and I need about 16,500 miles for the next tier. I'm one year in to my 2 year evaluation period, so if I get bumped up now, I'll hold the status for 3 years.
Departure Airport: ICN, HKG, PEK, PUS, GUM
Miles Needed: 16,500
Required Spend or Budget: Any
Available Travel Dates: Any
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: Any
Route(s) You've Already Searched: I've been looking at ICN/HKG to ORD, as that is just about the right number of miles, and I found some RT fares in the range of $600, which I thought was great, but then I realized the fare classes on those tickets would only give me 50% or 70% miles credit. When searching for fare classes that give 100% miles credit, the prices seem to be around $1800 - $2000 or so. I'm wondering if there's a chance to find something better?
Thanks for reading!
I'm completely new to this. I've only just recently started traveling regularly enough to be thinking about miles programs and status levels. I picked up Global Entry and the APEC Business Travel Card to help ease some of the headache of it all, but I'd also like to try and get bumped up to the next tier on my miles program sooner rather than later if I can do it for reasonable cost. I'm currently "OZ Gold" (*S), the next step up is "OZ Diamond" (*G), and I need about 16,500 miles for the next tier. I'm one year in to my 2 year evaluation period, so if I get bumped up now, I'll hold the status for 3 years.
Departure Airport: ICN, HKG, PEK, PUS, GUM
Miles Needed: 16,500
Required Spend or Budget: Any
Available Travel Dates: Any
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: Any
Route(s) You've Already Searched: I've been looking at ICN/HKG to ORD, as that is just about the right number of miles, and I found some RT fares in the range of $600, which I thought was great, but then I realized the fare classes on those tickets would only give me 50% or 70% miles credit. When searching for fare classes that give 100% miles credit, the prices seem to be around $1800 - $2000 or so. I'm wondering if there's a chance to find something better?
Thanks for reading!
#1578
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: WAS/TYO
Programs: AA PPro, TP Gold, UA Silver, Bonvoy/Hilton Gold, Global Entry
Posts: 296
$368, DCA-EWR-SEA-IAH-DCA for Oct. 8.
https://www.google.com/flights#flt=D...800*.USD.36800
https://www.google.com/flights#flt=D...800*.USD.36800
Thanks for the link (and sorry for the late reply!)
#1579
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 233
MR ex MEX or CA -- thanks !!
Hi all. It would be great if someone can help me with this.
In fact my request can be about very different things as I am flexible: I could be doing a quick MR somewhere in North America to get 10-15,000 miles, but I could also do a much more complex MR to Asia or Australia to get 35,000. I want to do anything which (a) has a great CPM ration, (b) brings me somewhere nice if possible, (c) is in F or C on long-haul. Thanks !!!
Departure Airport: Preferably MEX, but otherwise somewhere in Central America would also be ok
Return Airport: Ideally RIO, but otherwise somewhere else in South America would also be ok
Miles Needed: Anything with a good CPM ratio (I need 33,000 by year-end, but anything less than that is ok for now)
Required Spend or Budget: Anything ok if CPM ratio is good
Available Travel Dates: Leaving around 21 or 22 July, returning asap -- max. travel duration about 5 days
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: UA metal on at least four segments -- though I can be flexible as I could do UA later
Required cabin: F or C on international -- but Y is ok on US / Can
Preferred destinations: Anywhere in Asia / Pacific / Oceania, Canada, Alaska -- Europe would also do but I prefer not
Many many thanks !
In fact my request can be about very different things as I am flexible: I could be doing a quick MR somewhere in North America to get 10-15,000 miles, but I could also do a much more complex MR to Asia or Australia to get 35,000. I want to do anything which (a) has a great CPM ration, (b) brings me somewhere nice if possible, (c) is in F or C on long-haul. Thanks !!!
Departure Airport: Preferably MEX, but otherwise somewhere in Central America would also be ok
Return Airport: Ideally RIO, but otherwise somewhere else in South America would also be ok
Miles Needed: Anything with a good CPM ratio (I need 33,000 by year-end, but anything less than that is ok for now)
Required Spend or Budget: Anything ok if CPM ratio is good
Available Travel Dates: Leaving around 21 or 22 July, returning asap -- max. travel duration about 5 days
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: UA metal on at least four segments -- though I can be flexible as I could do UA later
Required cabin: F or C on international -- but Y is ok on US / Can
Preferred destinations: Anywhere in Asia / Pacific / Oceania, Canada, Alaska -- Europe would also do but I prefer not
Many many thanks !
#1580
Join Date: Nov 2010
Programs: United 1K
Posts: 38
First time poster, long time lurker here...seeking advice!
Departure Airport: MSP/ORD, possibly SFO
Miles Needed: 20-24,000 PQM to hit Platinum
Required Spend or Budget: need $2,000 more for PQD, but willing to spend $2-4k for other cabin for comparable $/mile
Available Travel Dates: typically between any Thurs-Sun starting in September to end of year 2018.
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: prefer UA but no requirements, already satisfied min. UA segments.
Only decent thing I've found is SFO-PEK for ~$540 RT, ~4 cpm, 13,000 pqm, but would love some suggestions for domestic or Euro travel as well.
Thanks in advance!
Departure Airport: MSP/ORD, possibly SFO
Miles Needed: 20-24,000 PQM to hit Platinum
Required Spend or Budget: need $2,000 more for PQD, but willing to spend $2-4k for other cabin for comparable $/mile
Available Travel Dates: typically between any Thurs-Sun starting in September to end of year 2018.
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: prefer UA but no requirements, already satisfied min. UA segments.
Only decent thing I've found is SFO-PEK for ~$540 RT, ~4 cpm, 13,000 pqm, but would love some suggestions for domestic or Euro travel as well.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by beeasyed; Jul 8, 2018 at 3:54 pm
#1581
Join Date: Jun 2018
Programs: Mileage+
Posts: 6
First time poster, long time lurker here...trying to give advice :-)
Sorry cant post the URL yet, so you have to look yourself.
$550 (will now turn out at $610, but should be back to $550 soon) ams-ord-iah-eze-iah-ord-fra 20437 PQM = 2,69c/PQM 12/1 - 12/3
Price also came up for 8/25-8/27, but I am not sure, if that will come back.
Just add the two legs from whereever you want to start from- and you have 30k+ PQM.
Sorry cant post the URL yet, so you have to look yourself.
$550 (will now turn out at $610, but should be back to $550 soon) ams-ord-iah-eze-iah-ord-fra 20437 PQM = 2,69c/PQM 12/1 - 12/3
Price also came up for 8/25-8/27, but I am not sure, if that will come back.
Just add the two legs from whereever you want to start from- and you have 30k+ PQM.
#1582
Join Date: Nov 2010
Programs: United 1K
Posts: 38
First time poster, long time lurker here...trying to give advice :-)
Sorry cant post the URL yet, so you have to look yourself.
$550 (will now turn out at $610, but should be back to $550 soon) ams-ord-iah-eze-iah-ord-fra 20437 PQM = 2,69c/PQM 12/1 - 12/3
Price also came up for 8/25-8/27, but I am not sure, if that will come back.
Just add the two legs from whereever you want to start from- and you have 30k+ PQM.
Sorry cant post the URL yet, so you have to look yourself.
$550 (will now turn out at $610, but should be back to $550 soon) ams-ord-iah-eze-iah-ord-fra 20437 PQM = 2,69c/PQM 12/1 - 12/3
Price also came up for 8/25-8/27, but I am not sure, if that will come back.
Just add the two legs from whereever you want to start from- and you have 30k+ PQM.
Last edited by beeasyed; Jul 9, 2018 at 1:19 pm
#1583
Join Date: Nov 2016
Programs: United Mileage Plus
Posts: 22
Departure Airport: IAH- China(PEK, SHA, PVG)
Miles Needed: As many as possible
Required Spend or Budget: $800
Available Travel Dates: July 24-July 27, outbound, and return in July 29
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay:
Route(s) You've Already Searched:
Miles Needed: As many as possible
Required Spend or Budget: $800
Available Travel Dates: July 24-July 27, outbound, and return in July 29
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay:
Route(s) You've Already Searched:
#1584
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1K 0.7MM (trying to get to 1MM!)
Posts: 1,272
https://www.google.com/flights/#flt=...IANCE;sd:1;t:f
You can easily click on the departure date yourself to see the prices for the other dates.
#1586
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 233
Departure Airport: Preferably MEX, but otherwise somewhere in Central America would also be ok
Return Airport: Ideally RIO, but otherwise somewhere else in South America would also be ok
Miles Needed: Anything with a good CPM ratio (I need 33,000 by year-end, but anything less than that is ok for now)
Required Spend or Budget: Anything ok if CPM ratio is good
Available Travel Dates: Leaving around 21 or 22 July, returning asap -- max. travel duration about 5 days
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: UA metal on at least four segments -- though I can be flexible as I could do UA later
Required cabin: F or C on international -- but Y is ok on US / Can
Preferred destinations: Anywhere in Asia / Pacific / Oceania, Canada, Alaska -- Europe would also do but I prefer not
Return Airport: Ideally RIO, but otherwise somewhere else in South America would also be ok
Miles Needed: Anything with a good CPM ratio (I need 33,000 by year-end, but anything less than that is ok for now)
Required Spend or Budget: Anything ok if CPM ratio is good
Available Travel Dates: Leaving around 21 or 22 July, returning asap -- max. travel duration about 5 days
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: UA metal on at least four segments -- though I can be flexible as I could do UA later
Required cabin: F or C on international -- but Y is ok on US / Can
Preferred destinations: Anywhere in Asia / Pacific / Oceania, Canada, Alaska -- Europe would also do but I prefer not
#1587
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Austin, TX
Programs: AA Plat Pro, Marriott Ambassador, Hyatt Globalist, United Platinum
Posts: 24
AUS 17,000 mile run over weekend
Departure Airport: AUS
Miles Needed: 17,000
Required Spend or Budget: $1,000 Budget – No spend required
Available Travel Dates: August 17th -19th, Sep 7th – 9th, or Sep 14th – 16th
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: United and United Express Only
Route(s) You've Already Searched: NRT, HKG, Reykjavik
Hey ya’ll I could really use some magic here. Looking for 17,000 mile run over a Friday to Sunday Period. Destination does not matter because I most likely will not leave the airport. Thanks!
Miles Needed: 17,000
Required Spend or Budget: $1,000 Budget – No spend required
Available Travel Dates: August 17th -19th, Sep 7th – 9th, or Sep 14th – 16th
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: United and United Express Only
Route(s) You've Already Searched: NRT, HKG, Reykjavik
Hey ya’ll I could really use some magic here. Looking for 17,000 mile run over a Friday to Sunday Period. Destination does not matter because I most likely will not leave the airport. Thanks!
Last edited by ATX1989; Jul 9, 2018 at 8:00 pm Reason: removed bold to make it more legible
#1588
Join Date: Jun 2018
Programs: Mileage+
Posts: 6
forgive the ignorance, but what's the best way to construct such a flight on ITA? ie. would I search for a multi-stop itinerary from AMS to ORD to IAH, etc. in this case? I've only tried searching ORD-AMS roundtrip, for example, with code "+" for more than 1 stop, and / alliance star-alliance , but other than that, how should I be going about this?
https // www .vielfliegertreff.de/mileage-runs/120996-ua-mileage-run-26-5-29-5-bru-zrh-ord-iah-gru-iah-ord-ams-3.html#post2643659
#1589
Join Date: May 2012
Location: ORF, RIC
Programs: UA LT 1K, 3 MM; Marriott Titanium; IHG Platinum
Posts: 6,958
There are other dates for about $550, eg, Oct.27-29, AMS-ORD-EZE-CDG. You can replace EZE by GIG, SCL or GRU. The problem is that positioning flights from US are not cheap.
#1590
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1K 0.7MM (trying to get to 1MM!)
Posts: 1,272
Departure Airport: AUS
Miles Needed: 17,000
Required Spend or Budget: $1,000 Budget – No spend required
Available Travel Dates: August 17th -19th, Sep 7th – 9th, or Sep 14th – 16th
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: United and United Express Only
Route(s) You've Already Searched: NRT, HKG, Reykjavik
Hey ya’ll I could really use some magic here. Looking for 17,000 mile run over a Friday to Sunday Period. Destination does not matter because I most likely will not leave the airport. Thanks!
Miles Needed: 17,000
Required Spend or Budget: $1,000 Budget – No spend required
Available Travel Dates: August 17th -19th, Sep 7th – 9th, or Sep 14th – 16th
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: United and United Express Only
Route(s) You've Already Searched: NRT, HKG, Reykjavik
Hey ya’ll I could really use some magic here. Looking for 17,000 mile run over a Friday to Sunday Period. Destination does not matter because I most likely will not leave the airport. Thanks!
UA:$970 AUS-SIN 19951PQM
Fri Sept 14
EWR-LAX-SIN
1hr10min turn in SIN
Sun Sept 16
SIN-SFO-AUS
https://goo.gl/flights/bCyP8
There are other options that have longer turnaround times in SIN, for example flying through LAX with a long connection in LAX, or flying through LAX and IAH on the way back with 2 hrs in each location, etc...
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I must have missed the Sept 7-9 dates above the first time I read your message. Here's another option (not quite as many miles, but pretty close, and a much better turn time in SIN):
UA:$970 AUS-SIN 19886PQM
Fri Sept 7
EWR-SFO-SIN
2hr30min turn in SIN
Sun Sept 9
SIN-SFO-AUS
https://goo.gl/flights/NpPs1
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Last edited by mpiotrow; Jul 10, 2018 at 8:02 am Reason: Added flight option for Sept 7-9