Global Services Invitations for 2013
 

Just noticed my status changed from 1K to Global Services. Anyone else change over yet? I called and my packet is in the mail. I haven't seen a thread on this yet, so I hope I'm not duplicating.

My stats for 2012 are:
-$37K full spend, 95K miles
-$54K total spend, 190k total miles

I fly international out of EWR, and split domestic between EWR and PHL.

Good luck, everyone!

Apparently I'm on the naughty list. No GS for me.

-RM

Dangit! I am Plat but should be right on the line for GS based on my spend estimates ($48Kish +/- 2 or 3K), mostly M fare though out of IAH. Only 90K. Will it just show a status change on the United page?

Wow, I'm surprised to see you made the initial qual at a non-competitve hub with that little spend. Congrats.

Do M fares qualify as full fare? I thought it was YB only for coach fares.

That spend sounds low - I'm surprised you made it.

Everyone will be GS soon and than there'll be another "secret" tier above it :rolleyes:

They have had massive corporate (i.e. high yield) defections this year so maybe not too surprising...

I'm a bit puzzled by UA at this point. I went back and added everything up last night: a bit over $104,000 total spend on United (no code shares) during 2012. Most of this has been international business and first. My account still shows 1K.

I was surprised as well. It just appeared on my profile page, and then I called to confirm.

I didn't include them in my full-fare spend, but M fares make up the bulk of my non-full fare travel. Maybe they do count and that's what pushed me over. I asked the GS rep when I called, and she would neither confirm nor deny.

One mitigating factor, and I don't think it would have any effect (but who knows): I already have around $25k of full-fare travel booked during 1Q 2013.

Wow. That's just bizarre. The GS rep told me they were "rolling it out" over the next few weeks, so it might happen yet.

~$40k in spend, 168k miles flown. 1K.

Seriously. I don't think that would have qualified in the last 2-3 years. I know I spent at least that much in the year when I was kicked out.

I called and that's what I was told.

The rep said that they will be able to tell if you are GS on their system on January 1.

How much in full fare?

a discussion on who has gotten GS for 2013 has been on going for awhile in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-q-2012-a.html

Status changes for new GS started occurring 2-3 days ago.

You would think they would provide some transparency for existing GS at the same time they are adding newbie's to the ranks - it suggests they have already done round 1 of the math so know who is clearly in - or maybe think it adds to the mystique....