Jan 5, 15, 11:45 pm
Last edit by: WineCountryUA
Previous thread -- Presidential Plus Card Changes
Related thread - General Questions re: MileagePlus Flex PQM
This legacy Chase credit card is not taking new applications. Compiled below is a comparison of current card-derived vs. status-derived benefits.
Overall, the current benefits of the PP and the replacement Club card are nearly identical. The key trade-off is increased redeemable mile (RDM) earnings with the Club card vs. FPQM with the PP card. Basically, the Club card earns an incremental 0.5 RDM / $1 vs. the PP card’s 0.2 PQM / $1. This sets a 2.5 RDM : $1 PQM ratio, which puts a price on PQMs earned this way at $0.025 to $0.050. Given that PQMs cost atleast $0.08 or more each if purchased early in the year via award accelerator, this is a pretty good deal for those who anticipate falling short of the upcoming year’s desired Silver / Gold / Platinum threshold.
Benefits unique to the PP card:
- 1000 FPQM per $5,000 spend (or 0.2 / $1)
- FPQMs are only valid for Premier Silver / Gold / Platinum status, expire 3 years after earning
- 1 RDM / $1 card spend (x2 hotel & rental cars for personal card, x2 restaurants, gas, office supplies for business card)
- Premier Qualifying Dollar (PQD) waiver (no minimum card spend, doesn’t apply to 1K)
Benefits unique to the Club card:
- 1.5 RDM / $1 card spend
- PQD waiver (with $25,000 minimum card spend, doesn’t apply to 1K)
Benefits shared between PP and Club cards:
- $395 annual fee
- United club membership (vs. $450 1K/GS, $500 Platinum, $550 Gold, $550 Silver, $550 GM, +$550 with spouse)
-Waiver of 4 segment on United flights for Premier qualification (removed in 2020)
- Premier Access (group 2 boarding)
- 2 free checked bags (vs. 1 Silver, 2 Gold, 3 Platinum)
- Hyatt Gold Passport Platinum
- Hertz Hertz President's Circle status (vs. Five Star for Premier Silver / Gold) (expiring 31 January 2023)
- CPU on award tickets
- No <21 day award booking fees (vs. $50 Silver, $25 Gold, $0 Platinum)
- No foreign transaction fees
- Concierge service
Benefits compared to Explorer card:
- only $95 annual fee
- only 1 free bag for cardholder and 1 companion
- 1 RDM / $1 card spend, +10,000 bonus after $25,000 card spend)
- 2 single-use club passes
- Premier Access (group 2 boarding)
- Premier Qualifying Dollar waiver (with $25,000 minimum card spend)
Sources (accessed Jan 1, 2015):
Chase United Card Benefits
https://www.chase.com/online/Credit-...ewards-new.htm
United Premier Status Benefits
http://www.united.com/web/en-US/cont...r/default.aspx
United Premier Status Qualification Requirements
Premier status qualification requirements
Prior FlyerTalk thread on Presidential Plus card changes
Presidential Plus Card Changes
Based on post by pstrasma
Related thread - General Questions re: MileagePlus Flex PQM
This legacy Chase credit card is not taking new applications. Compiled below is a comparison of current card-derived vs. status-derived benefits.
Overall, the current benefits of the PP and the replacement Club card are nearly identical. The key trade-off is increased redeemable mile (RDM) earnings with the Club card vs. FPQM with the PP card. Basically, the Club card earns an incremental 0.5 RDM / $1 vs. the PP card’s 0.2 PQM / $1. This sets a 2.5 RDM : $1 PQM ratio, which puts a price on PQMs earned this way at $0.025 to $0.050. Given that PQMs cost atleast $0.08 or more each if purchased early in the year via award accelerator, this is a pretty good deal for those who anticipate falling short of the upcoming year’s desired Silver / Gold / Platinum threshold.
Benefits unique to the PP card:
- 1000 FPQM per $5,000 spend (or 0.2 / $1)
- FPQMs are only valid for Premier Silver / Gold / Platinum status, expire 3 years after earning
- 1 RDM / $1 card spend (x2 hotel & rental cars for personal card, x2 restaurants, gas, office supplies for business card)
- Premier Qualifying Dollar (PQD) waiver (no minimum card spend, doesn’t apply to 1K)
Benefits unique to the Club card:
- 1.5 RDM / $1 card spend
- PQD waiver (with $25,000 minimum card spend, doesn’t apply to 1K)
Benefits shared between PP and Club cards:
- $395 annual fee
- United club membership (vs. $450 1K/GS, $500 Platinum, $550 Gold, $550 Silver, $550 GM, +$550 with spouse)
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- Premier Access (group 2 boarding)
- 2 free checked bags (vs. 1 Silver, 2 Gold, 3 Platinum)
- Hyatt Gold Passport Platinum
- Hertz Hertz President's Circle status (vs. Five Star for Premier Silver / Gold) (expiring 31 January 2023)
- CPU on award tickets
- No <21 day award booking fees (vs. $50 Silver, $25 Gold, $0 Platinum)
- No foreign transaction fees
- Concierge service
Benefits compared to Explorer card:
- only $95 annual fee
- only 1 free bag for cardholder and 1 companion
- 1 RDM / $1 card spend, +10,000 bonus after $25,000 card spend)
- 2 single-use club passes
- Premier Access (group 2 boarding)
- Premier Qualifying Dollar waiver (with $25,000 minimum card spend)
Sources (accessed Jan 1, 2015):
Chase United Card Benefits
https://www.chase.com/online/Credit-...ewards-new.htm
United Premier Status Benefits
http://www.united.com/web/en-US/cont...r/default.aspx
United Premier Status Qualification Requirements
Premier status qualification requirements
Prior FlyerTalk thread on Presidential Plus card changes
Presidential Plus Card Changes
Based on post by pstrasma
PresidentialPlus credit card - Benefits, Q&A, .... (impact of 2019 & 2020 MP changes)
Jan 28, 23, 1:02 pm
#1231
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: CLE
Programs: UA
Posts: 280
Come Feb 1, I will no longer be a Silver Elite but general member instead 
. I still have the PresPlus card and I was wondering what I will have in terms of travel perks without elite status. It has been about 10 years or so since I first earned premier status (Plat was highest ever). I know I won’t have upgrade possibilities (not much of a chance anyway as a silver
) but do I still get PremierAccess?
. I still have the PresPlus card and I was wondering what I will have in terms of travel perks without elite status. It has been about 10 years or so since I first earned premier status (Plat was highest ever). I know I won’t have upgrade possibilities (not much of a chance anyway as a silver) but do I still get PremierAccess?
Jan 28, 23, 1:22 pm
#1232
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NYC (Primarily EWR)
Programs: UA 1K / *G, Marriott Bonvoy Gold; Avis PC
Posts: 8,733
Come Feb 1, I will no longer be a Silver Elite but general member instead . I still have the PresPlus card and I was wondering what I will have in terms of travel perks without elite status. It has been about 10 years or so since I first earned premier status (Plat was highest ever). I know I won’t have upgrade possibilities (not much of a chance anyway as a silver) but do I still get PremierAccess?
. I still have the PresPlus card and I was wondering what I will have in terms of travel perks without elite status. It has been about 10 years or so since I first earned premier status (Plat was highest ever). I know I won’t have upgrade possibilities (not much of a chance anyway as a silver) but do I still get PremierAccess?
Mar 10, 23, 5:07 pm
#1235
Join Date: Feb 2022
Posts: 4
I've been hanging on to my PP card just as an easy way to keep status through spend, but since they upped the PQP earning limit on Infinite card to 8,000 it may be time to finally let it go. I don't see being able to earn much more 5,000 PQP each year, and the 4x mile advantage on the Infinite card looks attractive. It looks like you can still do award travel upgrades on both cards. Am I missing anything else essential?
Mar 10, 23, 5:41 pm
#1236
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Verdi, NV, SFO & Olympic (aka Squaw )Valley.
Programs: Ikon Pass Full + AS Gold + Marriott Titanium + Hilton Gold. Recovering UA Plat. LT lounge AA+DL+UA
Posts: 3,719
For those of us with grandfathered lifetime cards, that's actually a pretty good deal and part of why I've shifted most of my business to the competition. And it's not like that many Silvers actually have upgrades that ever clear.
Mar 11, 23, 9:31 am
#1237
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: TOA
Programs: HH Diamond, Marriott LTPP/Platinum Premier, Hyatt Lame-ist, UA !K
Posts: 20,060
Rare but it does happen
David
Mar 12, 23, 12:53 pm
#1238
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Verdi, NV, SFO & Olympic (aka Squaw )Valley.
Programs: Ikon Pass Full + AS Gold + Marriott Titanium + Hilton Gold. Recovering UA Plat. LT lounge AA+DL+UA
Posts: 3,719
Mar 13, 23, 12:53 pm
#1239
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Near MCI
Programs: UA Plat , HHonors Gold, Marriott Plat, Avis President's Club
Posts: 82
Obviously the routes you fly and when you fly them have a big role in how often Silvers upgrade, but when I was Silver pre-COVID I got upgraded maybe 20 percent of the time in and out of Kansas City. For me, the big benefit of Silver was the free E+ at check-in. Over 10 years and 10 to 15 trips a year as Silver I got E+ probably 95 percent of the time, including on international flights. That extra legroom over the Atlantic is worth a lot more to me than first class on a 90 minute flight.
Mar 28, 23, 6:08 pm
#1240
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: CLE
Programs: UA Platinum, Starbucks Gold, PF Chang's Warrior, Wine Century 100
Posts: 1,066
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but TPG has an article about Chase DoorDash partnership extension, so I gave it a try by adding my PPMC as a payment type in the DoorDash app and it came back with an offer of one year free DashPass. 
ETA: I cancelled the DashPass in the DoorDash app and received an email a few minutes later saying the subscription is cancelled and they are refunding my card for $9.99.
Last edited by paule123; Mar 28, 23 at 6:58 pm
May 18, 23, 8:17 am
#1241
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: WAS
Programs: UA Platinum, IHG and Marriott Gold, Hilton Silver, Hertz PC, National Exec Elite
Posts: 1,206
Has anyone else noticed that Spending Summary, where you can easily check your annual spend, has disappeared from All Transactions in the Chase app?
May 18, 23, 8:24 am
#1242
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: CLE
Programs: UA
Posts: 280
Jul 15, 23, 4:37 pm
#1243
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: LAX/TPE
Programs: United 1K, JAL Sapphire, SPG Lifetime Platinum, National Executive Elite, Hertz PC, Avis PC
Posts: 40,915
Question regarding Boingo. All World Elite Mastercards apparently come with free or discounted Boingo access, but when I try to get a plan with my PP card, the number is rejected as ineligible.
Is this card somehow exempt?
Is this card somehow exempt?
Jul 16, 23, 5:29 pm
#1244
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Denver, CO
Programs: UA 1K 24 years/2MM, Honors LT Diamond, AVIS & Hertz Prez Club
Posts: 4,679
https://redeem.boingo.com/mcsi/
Scroll down and there's a SKIP button that you have to click to continue and it's hard to see with an image over another image.
Jul 16, 23, 5:46 pm
#1245
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: LAX/TPE
Programs: United 1K, JAL Sapphire, SPG Lifetime Platinum, National Executive Elite, Hertz PC, Avis PC
Posts: 40,915
US cards do not appear to have access, regardless of the Bank, but you can check here with your account number:
https://redeem.boingo.com/mcsi/
Scroll down and there's a SKIP button that you have to click to continue and it's hard to see with an image over another image.
https://redeem.boingo.com/mcsi/
Scroll down and there's a SKIP button that you have to click to continue and it's hard to see with an image over another image.
