End of 2016 United BIS Rankings or How Much Did You Really Fly Last Year on United?
Jan 2, 2017, 10:13 pm
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End of 2016 United BIS Ranking or How Much Did You Really Fly Last Year on United?
Are you a Moon flight Mission Leader or a Suborbital Cruiser?
UA_Flyer has done the honors of putting together the 2016 PQM Rankings this year but I thought it might be interesting to also put up the numbers for United BIS or “Butt In Seat” or actual flight miles. I think this is particularly relevant this year since for 2016 United changed the PQM award amounts so that they are less now about flight mileage and more now about the value of the ticket or the booking code particularly for business flyers since it heavily weights those miles booked in business or first. For example an “F” or “J” booking code earns a 3X multiplier on the actual mileage amount versus the normal non-refundable economy tickets earning only a pedestrian 1X.
So again this thread is strictly for ranking United BIS miles which ranks your real flight miles on United planes. (If you also want to list your Star Alliance BIS that is fine as well for fun.) After we have a reasonable number of United BIS entries I will provide a ranked list.
The best and easiest way to get your United BIS miles number is to take your United Lifetime flight Miles from the end of 2016 and subtract from it your United Lifetime flight Miles from the end of 2015. This one year difference in Lifetime Flight Miles is your United BIS for 2016.
If for some reason you didn’t record your end of year 2015 lifetime number last year (Doesn’t everyone?), then you can still calculate your United BIS by taking the PQM from each 2016 trip which is on your detailed activity list and dividing the PQM for each flight by the appropriate multiplier for the booking code for that flight and then adding up all the resultant BIS miles. These booking codes values are on the “United Earning Miles for flights” page but to summarize: 3X for F and J; 2X for J, C, D, Z, and P; 1.5X for Y and B, and 1X for everything else. For example if your PQM for a flight is 1500 miles and your booking code was P then your BIS for that flight was 750 miles (1500/2). Also upgraded flights having booking codes with a Z prefix such as ZQ or ZW are still 1X (ignore the leading Z). You can also paste your flight activity list into a spreadsheet to make these calculations easier.
If you are a glutton for punishment, feel free to also post your Star Alliance BIS number (includes your United BIS number) which relates more to the same basis (Star Alliance) as the PQM miles. You can calculate these latter miles similar to above with the booking code multipliers for the Star Alliance carriers that are also listed on the appropriate United MileagePlus “earning miles” site pages.
Note that if you don’t have your 2105 lifetime miles, are mathematically challenged, or don’t have all day to do this, please feel free to approximate your BIS. Just put a “~” in front of the number to designate an approximation and I will still rank it.
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As of Post 54:
Mars Mission Flight Commander:
1 ua1flyer Between 900K & 1 Million
You Made it to the Moon AND Back!! >478K miles
2 BldgEnergy Saver 500,177
You reached the Moon! One small step.. >239K miles
3 John Aldeborgh 265,928
4 Weatherboy 260,922
5 UA_Flyer 240,639
Quadruple Looper! >100K miles
6 edcho 238,419 (you're at least in moon orbit)
7 boston477 205,191
8 wxguy 198,210
9 FlyHighInTheSky 196,936
10 porciuscato 186,500
11 twebst 183,290
12 bldr1k 160,883
13 narvik 147,834
14 jasonp622 130,316
15 NH_Clark 124,089
16 DELee 116,719
17 Exleftseat 106,508
18 mmayer 101,826
19 harryhood 100,122
20 mbflyflyaway 100,057
Double Looper! >50K
21 EWR764 99,177
22 MCLC 89,491
23 jcg20 86,743
24 WineCountryUA 79,793
25 Ocn Vw 1K 62,390
26 GoSh4rks 62,349
27 BayAreaTraveler 54,766
28 qfrodo 54,105
29 trmbn65 52,000
Circumnavigator >25K miles
30 Bruin1K 42,000
31 Baze 41,467
32 halls120 38,360
Suborbital Cruiser <25K miles
33 rankourabu 19,465
34 1111 18,000
35 ErgoTraveler 3,200
36 mahasamatman 2,900
UA_Flyer has done the honors of putting together the 2016 PQM Rankings this year but I thought it might be interesting to also put up the numbers for United BIS or “Butt In Seat” or actual flight miles. I think this is particularly relevant this year since for 2016 United changed the PQM award amounts so that they are less now about flight mileage and more now about the value of the ticket or the booking code particularly for business flyers since it heavily weights those miles booked in business or first. For example an “F” or “J” booking code earns a 3X multiplier on the actual mileage amount versus the normal non-refundable economy tickets earning only a pedestrian 1X.
So again this thread is strictly for ranking United BIS miles which ranks your real flight miles on United planes. (If you also want to list your Star Alliance BIS that is fine as well for fun.) After we have a reasonable number of United BIS entries I will provide a ranked list.
The best and easiest way to get your United BIS miles number is to take your United Lifetime flight Miles from the end of 2016 and subtract from it your United Lifetime flight Miles from the end of 2015. This one year difference in Lifetime Flight Miles is your United BIS for 2016.
If for some reason you didn’t record your end of year 2015 lifetime number last year (Doesn’t everyone?), then you can still calculate your United BIS by taking the PQM from each 2016 trip which is on your detailed activity list and dividing the PQM for each flight by the appropriate multiplier for the booking code for that flight and then adding up all the resultant BIS miles. These booking codes values are on the “United Earning Miles for flights” page but to summarize: 3X for F and J; 2X for J, C, D, Z, and P; 1.5X for Y and B, and 1X for everything else. For example if your PQM for a flight is 1500 miles and your booking code was P then your BIS for that flight was 750 miles (1500/2). Also upgraded flights having booking codes with a Z prefix such as ZQ or ZW are still 1X (ignore the leading Z). You can also paste your flight activity list into a spreadsheet to make these calculations easier.
If you are a glutton for punishment, feel free to also post your Star Alliance BIS number (includes your United BIS number) which relates more to the same basis (Star Alliance) as the PQM miles. You can calculate these latter miles similar to above with the booking code multipliers for the Star Alliance carriers that are also listed on the appropriate United MileagePlus “earning miles” site pages.
Note that if you don’t have your 2105 lifetime miles, are mathematically challenged, or don’t have all day to do this, please feel free to approximate your BIS. Just put a “~” in front of the number to designate an approximation and I will still rank it.
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As of Post 54:
Mars Mission Flight Commander:
1 ua1flyer Between 900K & 1 Million
You Made it to the Moon AND Back!! >478K miles
2 BldgEnergy Saver 500,177
You reached the Moon! One small step.. >239K miles
3 John Aldeborgh 265,928
4 Weatherboy 260,922
5 UA_Flyer 240,639
Quadruple Looper! >100K miles
6 edcho 238,419 (you're at least in moon orbit)
7 boston477 205,191
8 wxguy 198,210
9 FlyHighInTheSky 196,936
10 porciuscato 186,500
11 twebst 183,290
12 bldr1k 160,883
13 narvik 147,834
14 jasonp622 130,316
15 NH_Clark 124,089
16 DELee 116,719
17 Exleftseat 106,508
18 mmayer 101,826
19 harryhood 100,122
20 mbflyflyaway 100,057
Double Looper! >50K
21 EWR764 99,177
22 MCLC 89,491
23 jcg20 86,743
24 WineCountryUA 79,793
25 Ocn Vw 1K 62,390
26 GoSh4rks 62,349
27 BayAreaTraveler 54,766
28 qfrodo 54,105
29 trmbn65 52,000
Circumnavigator >25K miles
30 Bruin1K 42,000
31 Baze 41,467
32 halls120 38,360
Suborbital Cruiser <25K miles
33 rankourabu 19,465
34 1111 18,000
35 ErgoTraveler 3,200
36 mahasamatman 2,900
Last edited by BldgEnergySaver; Jan 15, 2017 at 7:21 pm
Jan 2, 2017, 10:33 pm
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Jan 3, 2017, 4:57 am
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265,928 UA BIS for 2016
46,883 Non-UA *A BIS for 2016
312,881 total *A BIS for 2016
Non *A BIS ~50K
46,883 Non-UA *A BIS for 2016
312,881 total *A BIS for 2016
Non *A BIS ~50K
Last edited by John Aldeborgh; Jan 3, 2017 at 5:08 am