2.5K Benefits
Dec 14, 2000 | 8:51 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: larkspur, CA, USA
Posts: 19
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.
Dec 14, 2000 | 9:16 am
#3
Join Date: Jan 2000
Posts: 3,218
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?
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?
Dec 14, 2000 | 9:25 am
#4
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: larkspur, CA, USA
Posts: 19
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.
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.
Dec 14, 2000 | 9:34 am
#5
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: CH-3823 Wengen Switzerland
Programs: miles&more, MileagePlus
Posts: 27,043
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.
Dec 14, 2000 | 10:35 am
#7
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Don't know....
Programs: BA LTG, SQ TPPS, CX DMP, AA EXP, Bonvoy LTT, ALL PLT, Hilton DM
Posts: 4,035
Have a look at this in the UA thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/003134.html