Receipt of 2015 (Jan 2016 expiration) MileagePlus Elite Card/Packets
Jan 23, 2015, 2:11 pm
#241
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: YYZ, ON
Programs: UA 1K (2MM)
Posts: 394
Rec'd in Toronto on Jan. 23/15
Qualified mid-Nov 2014.
Jan 23, 2015, 3:27 pm
#242
Join Date: May 2005
Programs: Million Miler, 1K - Basically spend a lot of time on planes
Posts: 2,202
Received ours today (01/23) - Qualified in October. It's funny, the luggage tags are tiny, and no longer personalized. This sort of thing sums up why United has a nickel and dime issue to their customers. They may have saved 1-2 cents per unit to have them be smaller, but they look visibly smaller and cheaper than before.
Jan 23, 2015, 3:29 pm
#243
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: SF Bay Area
Programs: UA 1K MM, Accor Plat, Htz PC, Natl ExEm, other random status
Posts: 2,876
Received ours today (01/23) - Qualified in October. It's funny, the luggage tags are tiny. This sort of thing sums up why United has a nickel and dime issue to their customers. They may have saved 1-2 cents per unit to have them be smaller, but they look visibly smaller and cheaper than before.
That said, is the size perhaps an pmCO thing (seriously)? Weren't the luggage tags that CO used to give out pre-merger even smaller than these? Maybe the CC sized tags look huge to pmCO management and they prefer the small ones?
Greg
Jan 23, 2015, 3:31 pm
#244
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Programs: UA 1K MM, Marriott Life Plat, various others of little note
Posts: 2,763
Received 1/17
Both mine and the SO's, both requalified in October. At least time it was actually my card and not somebody else's.
Jan 23, 2015, 3:36 pm
#245
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SBA
Programs: UA & AA 1 million miler
Posts: 1,134
Didn't fly UA at all last year, but my million miler companion and I received Premier Gold packet today.
It came with 1 small luggage tag, interesting...
It came with 1 small luggage tag, interesting...
Jan 23, 2015, 3:56 pm
#246
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: SFO/SJC
Programs: UA Silver, Marriott Gold, Hilton Gold
Posts: 14,891
Haven't seen my tags yet this year and I only had PMCO tags once. But they were much smaller than the UA ones I've gotten before. When qualifying during 2011, the CO ones were about the size of the loyalty cards that hang on your keychain...maybe a bit longer than that.
Jan 23, 2015, 4:43 pm
#247
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: COS, DEN
Programs: UA GS, Marriott LT Plat
Posts: 172
Well...darn!
I fly out tomorrow for work in ZHR, FRA, MRS, and MAD. I return in February.
Despite a few calls to MP, I am still without my new 1K kit and assume I will not have access to *A lounges in the EU. How hard can it be to get the new packets out?!
Thanks United
I fly out tomorrow for work in ZHR, FRA, MRS, and MAD. I return in February.
Despite a few calls to MP, I am still without my new 1K kit and assume I will not have access to *A lounges in the EU. How hard can it be to get the new packets out?!
Thanks United
Jan 24, 2015, 7:14 am
#248
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: FRA / IAD
Programs: UA*PP
Posts: 44
Same here, qualified for Plat in December. United's website also says "pending", old card is about to expire.
Especially in FRA, they have been checking cards at the LH SEN Lounges recently.
Especially in FRA, they have been checking cards at the LH SEN Lounges recently.
Jan 24, 2015, 8:49 am
#249
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BOS/EAP
Programs: UA 1K, MR LTT, HH Dia, Amex Plat
Posts: 32,085
print a card online. They usually accept it. If you see UA*G on the BP they generally don't even ask ...
Jan 24, 2015, 9:48 am
#250
Join Date: May 2012
Location: ORF, RIC
Programs: UA LT 1K, 3 MM; Marriott Titanium; IHG Platinum
Posts: 6,958
Received my package on 1/20, which was the latest that I could remember. The first letter of my last name did not help. Hope that UA will do a reverse alphabet next year. 
Jan 24, 2015, 10:02 am
#251
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: 4éme
Posts: 12,043
I qualified for Plat at the end of Nov and 1K at the end of Dec. Mystatus is showing pending for my 1K kit. I have no idea what will happen with my Plat Kit.
Jan 24, 2015, 11:21 am
#252
Join Date: Mar 2012
Programs: Mileage Plus 1K; Marriott Platinum; Hilton Gold
Posts: 6,355
My icon converted from processing to shipped some time earlier this week. I'm too busy to check daily, so am not sure whether it was the beginning of the week or the end of the week.
I'm off to the Middle East in a couple of weeks, and we'll see whether my new card arrives in time for this trip. It would be a nice back up - as some *A lounge dragons do still ask for the card.
I'm off to the Middle East in a couple of weeks, and we'll see whether my new card arrives in time for this trip. It would be a nice back up - as some *A lounge dragons do still ask for the card.
Jan 24, 2015, 11:30 am
#253
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NY
Programs: AA: ExPlat & 3MM; UA: 1k; KL: Plat 4 Life; Hyatt: Plat; SPG, Marriott, Hilton: Gold
Posts: 2,708
My icon converted from processing to shipped some time earlier this week. I'm too busy to check daily, so am not sure whether it was the beginning of the week or the end of the week.
I'm off to the Middle East in a couple of weeks, and we'll see whether my new card arrives in time for this trip. It would be a nice back up - as some *A lounge dragons do still ask for the card.
I'm off to the Middle East in a couple of weeks, and we'll see whether my new card arrives in time for this trip. It would be a nice back up - as some *A lounge dragons do still ask for the card.
Jan 24, 2015, 2:44 pm
#254
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: NYC
Programs: AA EXP, UA Platinum, Alaksa MVP 75K, Air Berlin Gold, HHonors Diamond, Marriott Gold, Hertz PC
Posts: 2,389
Jan 24, 2015, 3:31 pm
#255
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: NYC
Programs: UA 1K, Hyatt Globalist, M Life Gold, SIXT Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum, Global Entry
Posts: 150
I qualified for platinum in October and for 1K in December 2014. I received my platinum kit in mid December and the status icon on mystatus.united.com for my 1K kit switched just yesterday or today from "Pending" to "Shipped." My last name starts with an *S* which is probably part of the reason for the late shipping.