How close did YOU cut it? (Made elite level just in time)
 

I make Silver on an annual basis based on segments and not miles. I was two short this year so I drove my Mother-in-Law home in her own car (and earned some great Brownie Points) on 12/31 and then flew two segments back. I landed back at my home airport at 7:27 pm, beating the 2012 deadline by 4.5 hours.

With 12/31 being a "no work" day for many, I'm wondering who out there cut it even closer than that. I'm sure there are many!

Hit 90.5 segments on the morning of 12/31 PHX-ORD.

Hit 100,000 miles somewhere over the Atlantic ex-EWR the evening of 12/28

December 28, 2012, 101,118 EQM for 1K

Got ORC credit today for a flight from 12/30 which just put me over the top.

You actually beat the deadline by more than 4.5 hours; apparently, it's from the time your journey starts, not ends. What I'm not sure of is, on a multi-segment trip, does the clock stop at the first leg on the return, or the final?

Last year, you could "beat the clock" safely by a very tiny margin using Chase Points to buy PQMs. This year, they changed it so you had to buy them by 12/30, a full day ahead.

My fiance crossed 100,000 miles SNA-ORD on 12/30... I was safe with 190k and got my GS invite on January 2nd :)

Each segment credits based on the date/time of scheduled departure.

Maybe not so much a question of time as mileage, but I qualified for 1K with exactly 100,006 miles on the most "final" part of final descent into JFK from SFO on 12/15. That was my last flight of the year on United.

I'm still crossing my fingers to make sure everything goes well as the final miles have not posted yet from my 12/31 flight (*A partner), but I should close the year with 100,100 miles. This is the narrowest margin and by far the latest I've squeeked by in all my years as 1K...

50,507 on 12/26

beat me this year...

:(

Arrived in EWR at 10:33pm on 12/30 with 100,047 PQM. Wife got 100,016 miles.
UA recorded that segment as on 12/31, making the qualifying segment even closer.

Are we the thinnest UA 1K couple? :)

2011 I didnt make Plat until late December, this year I got it done late November.

My dad didn't clear 1K until 12/29 - the longest he has even 'waited'.

I actually miscalculated. Using the famously unreliable united.com mileage calculator, I realized that I'd miss 1K by 2,000 miles. So I bought a mileage accelerator for $500 on an award ticket. Turns out that I ended up with 104,000 miles. In the end, I'm not that mad. I'll still use the miles, even if I overpayed for them. I also had the security of knowing that 1K was absolute.