MR, yet again. Help please!!
 

I did this last year and unfortunately let December creep up on me again. I need to requal for Premier on UA and I am about 5k short. Need miles not segments. basically I can try to get in two trips before Xmas using e-fares, or anything goes from the 25th to the 31st. Any suggestions and help is much appreciated and overnight stays do not have to be out of the question. :D

Home airport and budget?

:rolleyes: Seems the OP made the same ommission last year.

I'm guessing LAX.
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Home Airport is LAX and budget is not a major concern, but have to stay within reason. A trip to Germany would be about $900 and would fulfill, but I prefer to stay under $500. Does not have to be solely domestic routing either.

Your guess is correct and I am still a neophyte when it comes to properly posting on these forums. Sorry :eek:

LAX-ORD-MHT-ORD-LAX 12/15 $219 all in on UA. Probably good on other dates as well. 5176 miles

farecompare.com is your friend.

You can send me a check for the $280 difference at your convenience. :)

I tried this and either I was not doing something correctly or it was only valid for a short period of time. Now I need just under 4k miles and it looks like I have anything from the 28th to the 31st to get it done. Would prefer to keep the cost under $500 if possible.

I posted that flight 11 days ago and it was only good for the 12/15. That is why it won't work now.

However, since your mileage needs have reduced, search for roundtrips LAX-MHT on Orbitz and you'll get LAX-PHL-MHT-IAD-LAX on US/UA combo for $454.10 all in on 12/30. That is the best I could find this late in the year.

Book this quickly or it may go up.

Awesome ^ and thank you for the effort and information. Happy Holidays!!

Just a lurker's idea....

Since this last minute thing is a recurring bad dream for you, and you're considering spending a large amount of $$$ for 2P...

Perhaps you ought to let it slip for a couple weeks, and carefully plan and execute 4 far cheaper transcons before 2/28.

This ought to cost only twice what you're considering (or so), you'd not only requal for 08 - but 09 as well!
Two years for the effort.

Plus, you'd be halfway to 1p, where the bennies are considerably greater.

Are you sure the requalification period is valid until 2-28? I will check out the UA website, but I remember that only being during specific promotional periods. Thanks for the heads up.

What he is suggesting is for you to qualify for 2P in Jan & Feb the normal way, 25k miles or 30 segments. This way, you're qualified for all of 2008 and 2009 and 2 months in 2010.

For example, you can get LAX-LAS-PHL-MHT-LGA-PHL-LAX (6577 miles) for about $200 throughout Jan & Feb. 4 of these and your 2P.

Or you could look into west coast segment runs on UA/US to get 30 segments quickly.

Then you'd be halfway to 1P already.

I think you've procrastinated too long to get anything reasonable for this year. You're already under the 7 day purchase deadline.

I completely forgot about this. So basically if I get that number of segments or miles in during the first quarter the airline will assign the status for 2008 and how does that work for 2009? I have a few flights set up for this weekend to achieve the threshold I need to get to 25k. I appreciate your insight and help very much.

if you fly enough to make 25k miles in 2007, you get Premier status until 02/09. If you fly 25k miles in 2008, you'll be Premier until 02/10.

joelacpa's idea was to not pay for flights in 2007 and instead use that $ to fly 25k miles in Jan & Feb of 2008, thus getting you Premier until 02/10.

Since you've already purchased your flights for this year, you may as well stick with them. That way you'll have 1P status until 02/09, and all of 2008 to fly enough to keep it longer.