drewguy

I thought they rounded down for any COS 150% bonus.

OP may be 3 miles short instead!

uwman

Probably not. That's my total using great circle mapper, and PQM bonus for C for a trip to Beijing.

sfoboy85

Call up United when you have that 99,997 miles 5 times. Try to settle with agent, if cannot, ask for supervisor 5 times.

Trust me, out of that 5 phone calls/10 people, someone will grant it to you!

uwman

Smallest Premier Maximizer I can get with planned flights is $1000 (remaining planned flights are all transcon at least). Smallest MR I can get is $178.

CPMaverick

I'd say the opposite; irrops are an opportunity to get more miles. You can always ask for ORC if you've been invol rerouted. But you may get more miles in your rerouted itin. So your booked miles are the minimum you should get for most situations, unless you invoke trip-in-vain and get your money back.

I've flown almost 1M BIS and have not lost out on miles for an itinerary that I wanted to fly yet.

If I were the OP I'd just wait and see, odds of 1 more flight getting tacked on at this point seem reasonable.

exerda

Never count on UA giving you status for being "close." Buy PQM now or else plan for a MR. If you have reliable records (sounds like you do), you might also plan a buffer for any miscredited flights (such as full Y "bonus" during irrops) which UA potentially may claw back next year.

PV_Premier

too far from the end of the year to worry about this unless the OP has other issues like meeting the minimum number of UA flights to qualify, or lives in a place that is very obnoxious to get out of for a mileage run.

OP i suggest if you want to start working on it now and you are already an elite, you start using SDC to prolong some of your itineraries and add segments. this is the easiest way to pick up a few extra miles without spending more $$.

eg: ORD-SFO becomes ORD-LAX-SFO and voila! 500 extra miles, plus or minus.

TakeTheATrain

You can always SDC to a flight with a connection and that may be enough to push you over the 100,000 mark.

WineCountryUA

best to use UA mileage numbers, it some case they are larger and some cases smaller

Build a throwaway sfo-lax ow and you will get a 1,000 mile offer, probably less than $178. Cancel the the underlying flight (within 24 hours) and just keep the purchased miles.

especially with your future transcons, this is the cheapest option.

palmetto86

Exactly! You still have half a year of IRROPS ahead and get rebooked in Y. Or "miss" a flight and fingers crossed you get rebooked in Y. 1.5x EQM.

exerda

I wouldn't necessarily count on those "bonus" miles from irrops. UA may audit accounts down the road and "correct" them to the originally-booked fare buckets. Poof! Nowhere is it in writing that pax are entitled to keep those irrops-"bonus" miles.

This year, UA clawed back erroneous postings (duplicate postings as well as class-of-service bonuses) resulting from the SHARES fiasco over a year after the mistakes--resulting in some affected users dropping a level in elite status with no way to fly or purchase miles. UA granted an exception and reinstated status to those who complained, but there's no guarantee in the future in a similar situation that UA would do so again.

Thus, these bonuses are nice, but I wouldn't want to count on them for status...

mgcsinc

Sdc sdc sdc.

GBadger

SDC -- this is a no brainer.

I just did this at the gate, changing DCA-DEN to DCA-IAH-DEN. This added +/- 600 miles to the itinerary.

aacharya

Or perhaps OP can add a segment to the flight in C - might be refundable/changeable?

crosscountry58S

Last weekend I was scheduled to fly CID-DEN-MRY on UA, but the CID-DEN leg was delayed over three hours (mechanical), so I was going to miss the only DEN-MRY flight of the day. UA rebooked me on AA through DFW to SFO, then on to MRY the next morning on UA. The SFO-MRY leg on UA showed up in my account almost right away, along with an extra 1.5 PQS. So it seems that UA comped me for the leg I didn't end up flying with them, plus an extra 0.5 PQS. This all matters because I am tantalizing close to Silver status for the first time ever. So what I am wondering is, if I end up with 29.5 PQS (I'm closer to status in segments than miles), what happens? Will I have to fly one more leg to get 30.5? Has this ever happened to anyone else?