DCEsquire

Thanks. I honestly can't find the link to buy it or even see the option. My reservation is ticketed (it's a couple days old)

I'm looking at the reservation and these are the only options presented:

Reservation Tools: Change Flights | Cancel | View Baggage Service Charges | E-mail Summary | Print Itinerary | Export to Calendar | Upgrade Reservation | Rename Reservation | Reserve a Hotel | Reserve a Car

Below there is the trip insurance and options for viewing seats, changing flights and another for redeeming an upgrade. What am I missing. Thanks again.

MattR23

I have three upcoming reservations. Last week, all three had offers to buy more miles. Today, only one of the three has an Accelerator offer. The others don't show anything, like you describe. Might be unrelated, but I'm also showing that when choosing flights after searching, it doesn't show the mileage, so perhaps there's a system-wide problem right now?

IADFlyer123

It could be a system issue as there have been reports of website issues today. Have you tried the following link as well: http://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/prod...eProducts.aspx

DCEsquire

Yup, I tried that link too....it just brings me to a list of my outstanding reservations but when you go into the reservation it doesn't have the option.

I've also noticed that mileage isn't showing for some flights that I was trying to book.

DCEsquire

Looks like the option is back so I pulled the trigger! One final question. The 15k miles posted but the premier miles did not post.... do they only post after the flight is over?

IADFlyer123

Give it 10-15 minutes. Log out of your account and log back in. They should generally post. If you have a receipt, you should be golden. All Premier Accelerator purchases post on the same day. They are independent of the flight date.

DCEsquire

Thanks!

UTex09

Seeing offers for 15k/25k miles on my IAH-LHR itin. 2.3cpm for RDM, 14.3 for PQM. Meh.

royng

I have checked these three trips today.

The one departing in early May is offering 2.6cpm for RDM and 8cpm for PQM

while the other two in Sept and Dec are both offering 2.3cpm for RDM and and 12cpm for PQM.

mknoebel

I'm also at 2.6cpm for RDM, but 14.5cpm PQM for a flight in late May. (for 6.5/13K miles)

wco81

Are people buying as much RDMs and PQMs as they were last year, before the PQD requirement?

KenInEscazu

I doubt that UA will make this information public, but it only stands to reason that most of us in the know are not doing so simply to reach 1K.

Personally, I have bought 14,000 this year at $0.08/PAM + RDM because of disrupted travel plans that are out of the ordinary. I live outside the USA, so PQDs are not of concern to me.

It has always been my opinion that this is the absolute worst value offered in the flying world, as it's always possible to find flights that cost less if one watches for them throughout the year. With a flight, I can actually GO somewhere!

Although I am 1K because I must travel a lot for business and family reasons, I still enjoy those trips that are optional. I have seen more parts of the USA and other North and South American destinations in my efforts to top off my mileage accrual over the years than I would have ever otherwise been able to justify. I still have many places left on my bucket list.

That UA excluded the accelerator program from PQD shocked me at first. I'm still surprised that they don't want to encourage people spending money on benefits that may or may not be used, especially when they don't have to fly us anywhere to earn that money.

The only justification for it that I can reason is that the whole PQD plan is designed to thin the upper ranks of Premiers so that we can gain more of the benefits we expect from reaching that level of accrual. Right now, most of the complaints about missed CPUs, GPUs failing to clear, etc., is due to the fact that there are simply more of us than they can now service since merging. Allowing people to continue to buy in could disrupt their plan to make it more exclusive again. At least I hope that's it.

Mats

Is it ever dynamic? In other words, is there ever a better price for purchasing PQMs when checking in at a kiosk, or purchasing them mid-trip?

WineCountryUA

yes, definitively dynamic pricing is done on Award/Premier Accelerator -- sometime lower, sometime higher.

exerda

Definitely--though all of my recent trips have offered the same prices online on the res, at check-in online, at the kiosk, and mid trip. I used to see a lot more variation than I have recently.