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Global Services Qualifications - 2016
Enter your Username, Home Airport Code, PQM, BIS, PQS, PQD, and whether or not you are a requalifier in the below spreadsheet to help us track the qualification criteria for this year.
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Global Services Qualifications 2016
Nov 26, 2015, 11:51 am
#16
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: SEA & RDM
Programs: UA - 1MM, DL Diamond, AS MVP75, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold
Posts: 8,037
I am going to finish with $35K or so spend and about 180K miles...My guess is no GS for me again.
Nov 26, 2015, 12:03 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Northern California
Programs: I want to be free! Free!
Posts: 3,455
1K at 155PQM /$69K PQD total, 130PQM / $58K PQD on United metal - every darn mile flown reluctantly. SFO-based. around $35K of spend towards DL this year, and they'll be getting the rest of it next year if I don't get GS.
Nov 26, 2015, 12:07 pm
#18
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Chicago, IL
Programs: UA GS, Marriott (Plat Premier, LT Plat)
Posts: 257
Did you write to UA asking for your account to be reviewed for GS?
Nov 26, 2015, 12:08 pm
#19
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Northern California
Programs: I want to be free! Free!
Posts: 3,455
Nov 26, 2015, 12:12 pm
#20
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Chicago, IL
Programs: UA GS, Marriott (Plat Premier, LT Plat)
Posts: 257
Email [email protected]
Nov 27, 2015, 10:08 pm
#21
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: San Francisco, California
Programs: Amex Centurion, United Global Services
Posts: 847
First year plowing mileage onto United for no particular reason, I think my first flight of the year someone booked me on United so I just put 100% of my travel on United this year. I think I hit 1K around June/July.
Out of SFO:
PQM: 162,681
Spend: $43k so far all on United only, almost 100% were long-haul biz class travel
I have two, maybe three more trips this year, two already booked. so I'll probably finish the year at about 190k miles and about $55k-$60k in spend.
Never been GS before and it became a mild obsession this year to chase it but I'm not sure if 190k/$60k is enough to cut it at SFO?
If I make it I'll pour my business back to UA for 2016. If not I might take the same spend and pour it on AA, not that I'm feeling sour grapes but I was gunning for GS this year and I think I'm traveling about the most as I can while remaining happily married.
I had several weekends where I'd fly home SYD-SFO on Friday, attend birthday party saturday, fly SFO-NRT on Sunday. Almost 30 hours of flying over a weekend.
If I do any more I'll come home to the locks changed.
Out of SFO:
PQM: 162,681
Spend: $43k so far all on United only, almost 100% were long-haul biz class travel
I have two, maybe three more trips this year, two already booked. so I'll probably finish the year at about 190k miles and about $55k-$60k in spend.
Never been GS before and it became a mild obsession this year to chase it but I'm not sure if 190k/$60k is enough to cut it at SFO?
If I make it I'll pour my business back to UA for 2016. If not I might take the same spend and pour it on AA, not that I'm feeling sour grapes but I was gunning for GS this year and I think I'm traveling about the most as I can while remaining happily married.
I had several weekends where I'd fly home SYD-SFO on Friday, attend birthday party saturday, fly SFO-NRT on Sunday. Almost 30 hours of flying over a weekend.
If I do any more I'll come home to the locks changed.
Nov 28, 2015, 5:46 am
#22
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Programs: United MP 1K, SPG Gold
Posts: 186
looks like i'm not gonna qualify.
Nov 28, 2015, 6:33 am
#23
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: DCA
Programs: UA US CO AA DL FL
Posts: 50,262
It will also be very interesting to see how and whether UA handles GS for large corporate contracts this year. More GS, fewer GS, same # and who gets to designate them.
Another route rather than writing directly to UA for a GS review is to have your corporate TA or the finance person in your company who handles the negotiations with UA, make the request for you. Cozy up to that person. It's not much work for them and you can even draft the email for them, but their stuff gets read and attention gets paid to it.
Another route rather than writing directly to UA for a GS review is to have your corporate TA or the finance person in your company who handles the negotiations with UA, make the request for you. Cozy up to that person. It's not much work for them and you can even draft the email for them, but their stuff gets read and attention gets paid to it.
Nov 28, 2015, 7:46 am
#24
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 2
GS Soft Landing
I will not prequalify this year after 3 years as GS. I went from Int'l Business Class to Domestic cigar tubes. Does anybody know if United provides "soft landings" to 1K?
Thanks,
Thanks,
Nov 28, 2015, 9:11 am
#25
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: IAD
Programs: UA Gold + 1MM; HHonors Gold; Marriott Plat
Posts: 747
A few questions: how do you calculate BIS miles? Is this something United shows on their website under MileagePlus activity? I don't have many miles (relative to others) but I almost always fly Business or First and have only flown United metal this year.
Any guidance from you experts is greatly appreciated. Thank you
Nov 28, 2015, 10:18 am
#26
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Houston
Programs: UA GS 2.6MM & Lifetime UC, Qantas Platinum, Hilton Lifetime Diamond, Bonvoy Platinum, HawaiianMiles
Posts: 8,700
I use http://openflights.org. I load my flights in there from TripIt. It allows me filter and get total BIS miles by airline. What is really cool that it even takes code-shares and enters them under the original metal. So, you are getting real miles flown by metal flown ^. It beats maintaining I spreadsheet like I did for years.
Nov 28, 2015, 11:06 am
#27
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Chicago, IL
Programs: UA GS, Marriott (Plat Premier, LT Plat)
Posts: 257
I use http://openflights.org. I load my flights in there from TripIt. It allows me filter and get total BIS miles by airline. What is really cool that it even takes code-shares and enters them under the original metal. So, you are getting real miles flown by metal flown ^. It beats maintaining I spreadsheet like I did for years.
You will end up being 1K (irrespective of miles flown, $ spent etc.) next year assuming you don't re-qualify for GS.
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Nov 29, 2015, 8:10 am
#30
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BOS/EAP
Programs: UA 1K, MR LTT, HH Dia, Amex Plat
Posts: 32,063