No better seat in my book than 2A on the E170/E175. Single seat, comfy as all get-out, not by the door, happiest place outside of a lie-flat. I'll happily trade the hot meal on the A320 for it.

I guess I should say I'm proud (??) to have made 1K without *any* international travel in '17, in any class of travel. Never left the country, unless you count Texas. :p

But given my PQD was north of $24k, I'd hazard a guess that they don't mind my business ....

This is intentional, better to impact the RJ with 30 pax than the 777 with 200.

There's certainly no love for UAX from this frequent flier.:p

This. To be honest Seats 1A and 2A on the E175s are my fav seats in the domestic fleet (except for the lie flats which I rarely take domestic).

To the OP. I feel your pain. I was over 130 segments last year and still can't feel my legs... :)

Well it's the same ratio as Silver/Gold/Plat so you can't very well argue it's unfair.

Didn't realize that was still a thing (long time since I was 1K) - excellent point.

Understood all around - although I think most everything you mention (except perhaps the assistance thing?) should be covered by Plat. But obviously 1K is even mo betta!

126 flights on CR2's and E145's is a lot different than 126 in even d:pmestic F.

Very true.

When was the last time you caught an RJ with 30 pax or a 777 with 200 ? - I wish I had your luck on the routes I fly.

I'm not a segment guy, but I fly UX when stateside and I fly LH international since I can get upgrades at booking and they have direct flights to the EU all year round. I don't know how the dollars lay down, but I only spent about 14k last year- and I had one P fare back from China.

I get 175s now and then- have one next week. Nice. 170s are GTG, like a big 700.

On the 1k. More miles by multiplier. RPUs and GPUs that are tricky to use. If I did only stateside flying, I'd get gold or maybe plat, and then work on another airline status. 1K is all about the GPUs.

Mid week flight tomorrow, to a Delta hub from DEN, and I am closer to the bottom of the UGL than the top. The economy is booming and ninjas travel more, and there are too many 1Ks. And frankly, UA really doesn't care. They care about GS and INTL J.

On the other extreme, you can fly SIN-LAX-MEL in full J and earn 100,416 PQMs on just one roundtrip.

Surely a ticket like this will net you over $12,000 PQDs.

And you’d just barely squeak by the 4 segment minimum too!😂

For such a trip, your stats would be 100,416 PQM, 6 PQS, Over 12,000 PQDs, and 4 of 4 segments minimum.

UA has definitely set the game up to favor higher fares. At the same time, they have done a lot more price discrimination on F cabin P and Z fares. Lot less CPUs going out and a lot more P fares being bought. And I don't blame people, especially ones with out status. Get a cheap Y fare and upgrade it, or just buy P fares and you get the bags free (right?), a meal (except out of DEN), go from an E- seat to a F seat and get on the plane with your bags. Often for $150-200 per leg. Not cheap, but if you stack all those benefits, it isn't that much of a premium.

If it weren't for F cabin mile multipliers, I wouldn't have made 1K this year. After easily making it for a few years, I only had one TATL and one TPAC.

If you buy P fares, you only need 50k miles BIS. It is better to buy some P fares on longer UX flights instead of having to buy miles to make 1K at the end of the year.