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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.)
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Old Aug 15, 2018, 7:42 pm
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Old Aug 15, 2018, 7:56 pm
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Originally Posted by Kmxu
If you get a Chinese visa ($140 for 10 years), you can get 25K PQM with two weekend trips and they will cost less than $1000.
Amazingly, I just came back to post that I knew I could do that - take two trips. Since I only have a week, I guess I was looking for something less hardcore, but 25K is 25K, so that may be the answer. Thank you. Maybe I could mix it up: SFO<-> PEK and SFO<->HND
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Old Aug 15, 2018, 8:03 pm
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Originally Posted by 365RoadWarrior
Maybe I could mix it up: SFO<-> PEK and SFO<->HND
Not sure if you're talking about non-stops to PEK and HND from SFO, but if so, that won't be enough miles. SFO-PEK-SFO will get you ~11800 miles, and SFO-HND-SFO will get you ~10300. So, those 2 trips together will give you ~22100 or so. You're going to have to connect somewhere in order to add some miles here and there...
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 1:31 am
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Originally Posted by 365RoadWarrior
Departure Airport: SFO
Miles Needed: 25,000
Required Spend or Budget: Budget $3,000 max (I am okay on UA PQD)
Available Travel Dates: December 8-15 or Christmas weekend
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: Any airline; just need *A PQM for UA status
Route(s) You've Already Searched: Many. (SFO->JNB, PER, AMM, DYU (via IST)...) I can find good R/T fares/routes, but to get needed PQM, I need to do multi-destination, which gets expensive. Seeking long, efficient routing ideas.

Notes: 2018 employer dropped United as a preferred airline; 2019 I will be back on United, so big MR need to save status. First time I have needed a mileage run. I'm ignorant. THANKS!
If you're principally focused on PQMs and not BIS or PQDs, you could also look at buying fare classes that give you the PQM multiplier (https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...es/united.html):



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Old Aug 16, 2018, 4:05 am
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Originally Posted by mpiotrow
Not sure if you're talking about non-stops to PEK and HND from SFO, but if so, that won't be enough miles. SFO-PEK-SFO will get you ~11800 miles, and SFO-HND-SFO will get you ~10300. So, those 2 trips together will give you ~22100 or so. You're going to have to connect somewhere in order to add some miles here and there...
Sorry, I did not calculate the PQM for two SFO-PEK trips. Alternatively, OP can look at SFO-HKG fare, about $600, to get 25K PQM.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 8:16 am
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50k trip for Gold Status UA
Departure Airport: YEG
Miles Needed: 50K
Required Spend or Budget: Budget $2,000 max
Available Travel Dates: December 23 - Jan 4 or March 20- April 4
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: Any airline; just need *A PQM for UA status
Route(s) You've Already Searched: I just found YEG-SYD us$850 for 20k but i prefer one shot for 50K

Thanks
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 8:23 am
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Originally Posted by hariyaa
Departure Airport: YEG
Miles Needed: 50K
Required Spend or Budget: Budget $2,000 max
Available Travel Dates: December 23 - Jan 4 or March 20- April 4
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: Any airline; just need *A PQM for UA status
Route(s) You've Already Searched: I just found YEG-SYD us$850 for 20k but i prefer one shot for 50K

Thanks
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that finding 1 single itinerary in economy that takes you around the world twice (the circumference of the earth is roughly 25K miles) is going to be VERY hard to do, especially with a limitation of $2K. And, is that USD, or CAD that you're talking about (since you're looking to fly out of YEG)?

And I definitely don't see a way to get 50K PQM in business/first for less than $2K.

Getting 50K miles for $2000 is 4cpm. That's a pretty good rate, but going to be hard to do it all in 1 shot. At least, that's my initial thoughts without looking too hard...
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 10:07 am
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Originally Posted by Kmxu
If you get a Chinese visa ($140 for 10 years), you can get 25K PQM with two weekend trips and they will cost less than $1000.

Originally Posted by DELee
If you're principally focused on PQMs and not BIS or PQDs, you could also look at buying fare classes that give you the PQM multiplier (https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...es/united.html):

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Originally Posted by mpiotrow
Not sure if you're talking about non-stops to PEK and HND from SFO, but if so, that won't be enough miles. SFO-PEK-SFO will get you ~11800 miles, and SFO-HND-SFO will get you ~10300. So, those 2 trips together will give you ~22100 or so. You're going to have to connect somewhere in order to add some miles here and there...
Thank you all. I think you've solved my problem and taught me something too.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 3:18 pm
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Thank you for quote for me.
would you let me know any route you found?
My budget would be around US$2500 for 50k

Thanks again
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 3:19 pm
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Thank you for quote for me.
would you let me know any route you found?
My budget would be around US$2500 for 50k

Thanks again
Originally Posted by mpiotrow
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that finding 1 single itinerary in economy that takes you around the world twice (the circumference of the earth is roughly 25K miles) is going to be VERY hard to do, especially with a limitation of $2K. And, is that USD, or CAD that you're talking about (since you're looking to fly out of YEG)?

And I definitely don't see a way to get 50K PQM in business/first for less than $2K.

Getting 50K miles for $2000 is 4cpm. That's a pretty good rate, but going to be hard to do it all in 1 shot. At least, that's my initial thoughts without looking too hard...
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 3:58 pm
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Originally Posted by hariyaa
Thank you for quote for me.
would you let me know any route you found?
My budget would be around US$2500 for 50k

Thanks again
I did not look because you said you were only interested in doing this in one shot. You also didn't answer my question about which currency you are using for your budget.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 4:16 pm
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Originally Posted by mpiotrow
I did not look because you said you were only interested in doing this in one shot. You also didn't answer my question about which currency you are using for your budget.
Sorry,,
It would be US $ i mentioned in my thread.
thank you
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 4:59 pm
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Originally Posted by hariyaa
Thank you for quote for me.
would you let me know any route you found?
My budget would be around US$2500 for 50k

Thanks again
Here's the best option I can find so far...you'd have to do this twice, which would give you around 41.5K PQM, so you'd still be 8.5 PQM short:

UA: YEG-SIN round trip, ~20800PQM, $705
Tue 2 Apr: YEG-DEN-SFO-SIN
2hr15min turn at SIN
Thu 4 Apr: SIN-SFO-DEN-YEG
https://goo.gl/flights/JDFM2

You can also do a similar routing for the same days for $608, but you end up with ~14 hours during the day (7am-9pm) in SIN, and a little over 8 hours overnight (9pm-5am) in SFO on the return portion of the trip.
https://goo.gl/flights/EcNtq
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 5:44 pm
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Originally Posted by mpiotrow
Here's the best option I can find so far...you'd have to do this twice, which would give you around 41.5K PQM, so you'd still be 8.5 PQM short:




UA: YEG-SIN round trip, ~20800PQM, $705
Tue 2 Apr: YEG-DEN-SFO-SIN
2hr15min turn at SIN
Thu 4 Apr: SIN-SFO-DEN-YEG
https://goo.gl/flights/JDFM2

You can also do a similar routing for the same days for $608, but you end up with ~14 hours during the day (7am-9pm) in SIN, and a little over 8 hours overnight (9pm-5am) in SFO on the return portion of the trip.
https://goo.gl/flights/EcNtq
Thank you so much.
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Old Aug 17, 2018, 6:26 pm
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I hope that I’m posting this correctly. It’s my first time and this is a bit confusing. I need help with a mileage run but I’d prefer to do business class. I need 25k PQMs for Platinum status.

Departure Airport: IAD (DCA & BWI are ok)
Miles Needed: 25,000
Required Spend or Budget: Budget is $2,000
Available Travel Dates: Any weekend (Friday through Sunday) until end of 2018
Required Metal or Codeshares Okay: UA
Route(s) You've Already Searched: IAD > BOS > LAX > FLL > SEA > IAD

Thanks!
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