2.5K Benefits
 

I fly out of SFO and will put about 250,000 miles on United in 2000. Aside from the obvious benefits of the incremental 150,000 miles over the 1K requirement (miles, mileage upgrades, confirmed upgrades, top of upgrade list), does anyone have any experience with getting more out of United for logging so many miles? I have thought of working on elite status on multiple airlines, but United has by far the best overall routes out of SFO.

Do you fly almost 100% paid C or F? What is your revenue total? That is a much better idication of whether you might get anyting "extra' out of UA than how may miles you flew.

Hi 1cay,
you might want to try posting this on the UA board. As far as I know, there are no additional benefits. Generally speaking, if u do mostly domestic or fly CX across the pacific, then I would look for a comp to Platinum on AA (100% bonus miles plus class of service) and then work on getting highest tier with OneWorld. If you fly often across the Atlantic, then look into attaining Senator status with the Lufthansa Miles and More program. In any case, the individual boards would offer more insight. Are you Million Miler yet with UA?

auh20:
My revenue was ~85K. I fly C class internationally, but generally try not to pay full fare domestically. I have heard that district sales managers for United can confer added privileges, but have no real data.

you can easily work on other airlines status on UA flights (you have the full choice of other StarAlliance-partner's- frequentflier-programs). I switch between LH miles&more and UA Mileage Plus all the time.

If you close your eyes and click your heels three times, you can imagine that the 1K room is 2.5 times as big. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Have a look at this in the UA thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/003134.html

1cay - email me if you want some more details.