PV_Premier

it's likely that the cost of premier accelerator will be greater than the cost of buying E+ and a checked bag. this should be your calculation.

you will not get upgrades on international flights as a premier silver member unless you are going to have a 1K apply a GPU for you, and rarely will you get them on domestic flights. i would not factor upgrade prioritization into your calculation -- do it solely based on cost of E+ and checked bag (if applicable) versus the cost of doing premier accelerator.

canon1243

Thank you both!

Would the fact that I would get 125% mileage if I did have the premier, play a factor...? 10K vs 12,500 is still a reasonable amount. But then again, that doesn't count for next year, this year only.

WineCountryUA

Silver elite bonus is for flight RDMs. Not for PQMs or purchased RDMs.

canon1243

Ah ok. Noted! :-)

Been a non-rev on USair for years now, normally 50K-75K a year through that, so switching to a regular customer with loyalty has been a learning experience!

aacharya

Also consider flying a quick MR from ORD-XXX - (west coast, maybe)? That should give you 2953 miles for a lot less than Premier Accelerator.

steppie

RT ORD-MKE........very easy flight, can do it in 1 1/2 hour.

rarich

Very good point. I just got mine, and yes it does add that cost. Just for added information- the visa is good for one year, for multiple entries. So, you wouldn't have this expense next year if you needed to do this again :-) and you could freshen it up a bit by doing PEK (Beijing)- for usually around the same cost.

merkur

I currently have Platinum status but I am 5,400 miles short for the year to maintain status in 2014. Will applying for a Chase MileagePlus card allow me to earn the PQM miles I need? Are there any other ways of earning the PQMs needed to achieve Platinum status in 2014?

Paul

sbm12

No.
Fly 'em or buy 'em.

Madone59

This will help: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...us-thread.html

Moultrie

Apologies from the start if this has already been answered...long-time lurker, first time poster.

I just concluded a long itinerary, booked on UA (SFO-->FRA-->BLR), in K. I booked all on UA site, so assumed that since United K will always earn miles on United, and the eticket said all legs were "united" (though FRA<->BLR was operated by LH), that I wouldn't have to worry about the fact that K *on LH* does not earn miles on UA MP. Whoops.

Clearly learned a lesson there. However, the sticky thing I'm hoping to figure out is that missing out on any miles from either of those two flights on LH now leaves me 731 miles short of getting Gold status on the year, with no more travel planned (and without any great opportunities for an MR).

So, question is: any chance of me getting either a) some of the miles from the flight or b) bumped up to Gold anyway, in light of the fact that I actually flew way more than I needed to, and the "K Class" mixup from above?

I tried calling, and they recommended emailing, which I've done...any other ideas? Or ways I should be going about this differently?

Thanks!

LaserSailor

Most definitive way is to 'purchase PQM (PremierQualifyingMiles) but these will cost you about 15 cents per mile and you will probably have to buy a sizable chunk.

To do this - buy a ticket, wait for ticketing, then after this, choose the PQM option with 'PremierMaximiser' If you don't do this, you just get miles and they won't count to status (Miles alone will cost about 2cent per mile)

Cancel the ticket within the 24 hour window - the miles will stay.

dsauch

one of the solutions are here

and many more here

this will probably get merged to the second soon

SEA1K4EVR

Welcome to FT!

a) I think there's a 0% chance they'll give you any credit
b) Maybe in the old days before the merger..but now they love to give you the chance to keep your status level..for a fee with an offer likely coming in the beginning of January. I've not been a victim of this myself as I've never taken any chances by being slightly under. My advice.. either take a flight or use Premier Accelerator to purchase the PQM's. Do a search for Premier Accelerator and you'll find instructions. Actually the cost of getting 731 PQM's would not be that much.

Moultrie

thanks -- sounds like finding a route of just enough and buying PQM is probably the way to go. Will do that assuming the negative reply I expect from them is what I get...