Mary2e

Anyone have recent experience with this?

I'm looking at purchasing an F ticket with my UR points. It does seem that splitting the purchase between points & cash may make the ticket PQD eligible.

Mary2e

Update - I purchased a Z fare UA ticket on the Chase website using a majority of UR points and also paid some cash.

When it ticketed the receipt on UA showed the full fare and full PQM/PQD/RDM miles for that class of ticket.

raccah

Thanks Mary2Me. Also, you have 24 hours to cancel and once booked you can quickly see if the ticket qualified for PQM and PQD - no???

thepd7

I just purchased a ticket from Houston (IAH) to London (LHR). The lowest price was W fare both ways so that was perfect because I wanted to apply a GPU. I used a ton of points then paid $3.50 or something on a card (just in case that's the trigger for PQDs as someone else hypothesized).

When I went to view the receipt, it shows the standard PQM and ~800 PQDs (ticket was $1600 so after $1200 in tax it "should" be $1400). Award miles are the normal 11x multiple but of the lower PQD #. Form of payment says "CHECK".

Most importantly for me, it shows as a normal W fare. I already applied GPUs and was confirmed on the way home (side note: LHR charges their tax based on space to a certain extent so upgrading on a flight from London costs $100 over economy).

Great use of my Chase UR!

aacharya

How many points was it for $1600 value? Just got the new Sapphire Reserve with the 100K bonus so debating using the portal versus transfer to MP.

D1BT

So it's 2017. Has anyone cracked the code yet, or are we still rolling the dice every time? It's insane that that we don't have a reliable way to tell whether or not UR point tickets will count towards PQD.

WineCountryUA

Ask if it is a BULK ticket or not -- that is the key.

D1BT

Ask who? Chase CSR's don't seem to know.

findark

If the price matches the public fare, it's probably not BULK. If you inspect the fare construction after ticketing and it matches published fares, it's not BULK.

eleeut

my data point.. i booked a ticket using split UR points and cash (75% cash if that makes any difference) and while 2nd half still hasn't posted, but PQD is coming through seemingly at same rate as all rev spend.

rin1018

Another data point - I booked RT flight ORD-ICN-ORD over the new year through Ultimate Rewards using a combo of points and cash (~50/50) and flights from Jan 1 just posted for 2017 with PQD and PQM just as they would had I paid cash through UA.com.

D1BT

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People in this thread have purchased tickets that were the exact same as the public fare. Their tickets ended ended being bulk. Same price with none of the PQD's.

So far, purchasing partially with points and partially with dollars doesn't seem to be a reliable differentiation. Though, the new data points are promising.

For new DP's it will help if we know the ROUTE and the CLASS people are buying. Econ, Biz, First?

rin1018

ORD-SFO-ICN and ICN-NRT-ORD all P class (business) for me.

Ticket receipt shows airfare and taxes/fee breakdown per usual and "Form of Payment" states "MISC DOCUMENT" (where it normally says "VISA Last 4 Digits XXXX").

One item of note (that I doubt matters, but in case it might possibly) I did change my return flight to move it up two days (and paid change fee) but I'm fairly certain that the PDM/PQD from my outbound flights had already posted and I can't see how this would impact earnings (but never say never I suppose!)

shdflyer

In the past 24 months I have purchased several Y tickets using Chase UR points and have always received correct PQM/PQD/RDM. The ticket receipts have looked exactly the same as if I had purchased directly from United, except the form of payment is usually "Check".

Most recent data point: 4 days ago I purchased 2 tickets, RIC-DEN-BZN in Y for travel in May using only UR points. Both ticketed in S class, and receipts shows "normal" earnings in all 3 categories.

mduell

That's not true, the bulk fares are often marked up to the published fare prices (Chase keeps the difference). The fare construction after ticketing will say BULK if it's bulk.