How close did YOU cut it? (Made elite level just in time)
Jan 4, 13, 1:41 pm
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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!
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!
Jan 4, 13, 2:05 pm
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Originally Posted by gdenny
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!
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!
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.
Jan 4, 13, 2:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Mike Jacoubowsky
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?
Jan 4, 13, 2:27 pm
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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.
Jan 4, 13, 2:33 pm
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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...
Jan 4, 13, 3:36 pm
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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'.
My dad didn't clear 1K until 12/29 - the longest he has even 'waited'.
Jan 4, 13, 3:57 pm
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Arizona, USA
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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.
