Clarkcc1

So we're about 45 days away from the start of 2017 and it appears as though UA has not either confirmed there are no changes to PQM/PQD/PQS requirements for earning 2018 status by flying in 2017. Seems like in previous years this happened by now... or am I going crazy?

Bruin1K

There was no change last year and they didn't say anything either

Kmxu

United did announce a change yesterday, which was related to next year's MP program. If you book the "basic economy" fare, you will not earn PQM, PQS, PQD, life time miles or the 4-segment minimum. So, these changes are pretty BIG.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...c-economy.html

emcampbe

And that's one way to discourage elites from buying those fares. There are other reasons why I would never buy a fare like that (I won't buy DLs either), but that would do it, too.

Back OT though, last time they made a change, I believe it was well into the earning year - June or so, before they announced it. I'd expect any changes not to be announced for a few months.

Bruin1K

not really. They said it iN November 2014 for the 2015 activity

Taoyuan

Which basically says I will never have status again, lol.

Agremeister

What are the chances of UA following AA/DLs footsteps and allowing us to earn PQDs on non-UA issued tickets on partner airlines? It'd be really nice if I could earn PQDs flying ANA and LH in Premium Economy...

geo979

Thread on last year's announcement.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...p-changes.html

Bruin1K

Yeah I'm the one who started the thread expecting to hear something in November 2015 since their previous announcement was November 2014 but they didn't change anything so they didn't announce anything last year and it took forever to update their website with the new dates. I hope this year they say something

Lani1

No chance I would ever book fare - no miles ??? no EQS ???

Boo_Radley

I'm still surprised that UA hasn't corrected the copy-paste error they made copying 1k PQM requirements from DL diamond. Not that I'm complaining, since I barely squeeze by with 100,000 PQM each year.

gene2632

I sit here and wonder, when did Frank Lorenzo come back? All of this reminds of his less than wonderful CO "Peanuts Fares" back in the early 90's before he finally left. At that time I had stopped worrying about chasing miles and status and worried more about reasonable fares, decent service and silly things like that stuff. Of course at that time there were more airlines flying the same routes so I did have options. Now I might as well just book with Spirit to begin with where I know the "low fares" are mostly BS at the get go. Right now I am wishing I did not have a bunch of stuff already booked with UA. I said the same thing last year but then Oscar sort of smoothed things over, my mistake, UA's loss in the long run.

blueman2

Any word on program changes for the coming year? Either changes to 2017 program benefits or changes to 2018 qualification?

JetAway

Based on past behavior, it's a little late to announce any program changes. So it's likely things will remain the same for another year (taking into account the award fee changes announced a few months ago).

quantumslip

One thing I do wonder is about the Presidential Plus and the PQD waiver. I get the feeling that it has got to end at some point due to how they word stuff on the united website but it hasn't happened yet.