Jan 31, 2018, 2:04 pm
Mile Play promotion #2 -- targeted book/travel X trips by 11 March 2018, get Y miles
Feb 2, 2018, 1:46 pm
#106
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1K 0.7MM (trying to get to 1MM!)
Posts: 1,272
Yeah, I saw that too. I was just hoping that the fare might be calculated the way PQD is (at least I'm pretty sure bag fees, upgrades to E+, etc, all count toward PQD), but it doesn't say anything about that here. I'm not sure it's worth me saving $50 or so to find out that it's not, and then I have to buy an additional $470 fare to make up for the fact that it didn't! 
Fare: $389.77
Taxes and fees: $43.53
Travel Options bundle: $23.00
Taxes and fees: $43.53
Travel Options bundle: $23.00
Feb 2, 2018, 1:58 pm
#107
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1P-1MM, Marriott LT Titanium
Posts: 3,930
I got 1 trip >$300 for 2500 miles. I might actually get this bonus. We will see... I did book a flight for next week (before registering) and thought that was a bummer, until I realized that it was also <$300, so there is no way it would have qualified, even if I had waited to book it.
Feb 2, 2018, 2:13 pm
#108
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1K 0.7MM (trying to get to 1MM!)
Posts: 1,272
I got 1 trip >$300 for 2500 miles. I might actually get this bonus. We will see... I did book a flight for next week (before registering) and thought that was a bummer, until I realized that it was also <$300, so there is no way it would have qualified, even if I had waited to book it.
Feb 2, 2018, 2:46 pm
#109
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1P-1MM, Marriott LT Titanium
Posts: 3,930
Have you considered just doing the award accelerator for your current flight instead? I just booked a flight, and was given an option of buying 8000 miles for $200. Seems like a much better deal than 2500 miles for $300. I don't know if all award accelerator options are the same ratio (mine is 2.5cpm), but I would think that yours would be better than the 12cpm that you're getting in your offer! Just a thought...
Feb 2, 2018, 8:07 pm
#110
Moderator, Omni, Omni/PR, Omni/Games, FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Between DCA and IAD
Programs: UA 1K MM; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 67,146
I scrutinized the fine print of the T&C on my offer, and discovered that "all flight activity" on a given trip must be in F/A/C/D/Z/P for my offer. Great, except a couple of places I want to go have UX segments on 1-cabin a/c. Even though these cost more overall, and the bulk of the fare is allocated to the mainline a/c segments on those trips, they wouldn't count.
That's annoying.
I was looking at, for example, IAD-DEN-SGU-DEN-IAD. The DEN-SGU segments are CRJ-200s, and for my dates, book into full Y. IAD-DEN is a mix of P, Z, C, and A depending on which flights I pick. But sorry, not eligible because UA themselves don't offer 2-cabin a/c on the route.
That's annoying.
I was looking at, for example, IAD-DEN-SGU-DEN-IAD. The DEN-SGU segments are CRJ-200s, and for my dates, book into full Y. IAD-DEN is a mix of P, Z, C, and A depending on which flights I pick. But sorry, not eligible because UA themselves don't offer 2-cabin a/c on the route.
Feb 3, 2018, 10:20 am
#113
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: LBB
Programs: UA 1K 1MM ★G | Marriott LTT | Hilton ♦ | Hertz PC | Global Entry TSA Pre ✓
Posts: 2,820
For me.... nada. (2018 1K)
For my Mrs..... 3 trips in premium cabin for 5,400 rdm's .... terrible. (2018 Gold)
Can fly from DEN-LAX $49 each way, and to many other destinations for similar prices right now during the winter months... why in the world would anyone pay 4-8X more for premium cabin to chase 5,400 miles? This total would have to be 10X the current offer to even warrant a consideration.
Would be fair for UA to include Y/B/M in the mix since those fares are often more than Z/P.
For my Mrs..... 3 trips in premium cabin for 5,400 rdm's .... terrible. (2018 Gold)
Can fly from DEN-LAX $49 each way, and to many other destinations for similar prices right now during the winter months... why in the world would anyone pay 4-8X more for premium cabin to chase 5,400 miles? This total would have to be 10X the current offer to even warrant a consideration.
I scrutinized the fine print of the T&C on my offer, and discovered that "all flight activity" on a given trip must be in F/A/C/D/Z/P for my offer. Great, except a couple of places I want to go have UX segments on 1-cabin a/c. Even though these cost more overall, and the bulk of the fare is allocated to the mainline a/c segments on those trips, they wouldn't count.
That's annoying.
I was looking at, for example, IAD-DEN-SGU-DEN-IAD. The DEN-SGU segments are CRJ-200s, and for my dates, book into full Y. IAD-DEN is a mix of P, Z, C, and A depending on which flights I pick. But sorry, not eligible because UA themselves don't offer 2-cabin a/c on the route.
That's annoying.
I was looking at, for example, IAD-DEN-SGU-DEN-IAD. The DEN-SGU segments are CRJ-200s, and for my dates, book into full Y. IAD-DEN is a mix of P, Z, C, and A depending on which flights I pick. But sorry, not eligible because UA themselves don't offer 2-cabin a/c on the route.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Feb 3, 2018 at 4:02 pm Reason: merging consecutive posts by same member
Feb 3, 2018, 5:50 pm
#116
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SIN / SFO
Programs: UA GS, SQ PPS, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Accor Gold
Posts: 1,215
130k for two premium cabin (A, C, D, F, J, P and Z) trips of $2k or more. Not bad, and there's a chance I'll manage it anyway...
Feb 3, 2018, 6:15 pm
#117
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Near Cleveland, OH (for love, not the weather)
Programs: Marriott Plat, UA 1K
Posts: 11
2 Very Different Offers
Hubby (1K, Million Miler): 3 trips, $300 each by 11 March, 9,700 bonus miles
Me (1K as spouse, but I travel a bit for work myself): 2 trips, $250 each by 11 March, 14,000 bonus miles
I doubt either of us will make it since we have both booked our Feb/March travel already, but it's always possible...
Hubby (1K, Million Miler): 3 trips, $300 each by 11 March, 9,700 bonus miles
Me (1K as spouse, but I travel a bit for work myself): 2 trips, $250 each by 11 March, 14,000 bonus miles
I doubt either of us will make it since we have both booked our Feb/March travel already, but it's always possible...
Feb 3, 2018, 11:22 pm
#119
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Our nation's capital
Programs: UA 1K & 0.6 MM
Posts: 781
I have a history of booking in B and using GPUs over the last 4 years, with my increasingly buying up to P and D over the last 1.5 years. I've also been burning through my award miles like crazy, taking family on at least two international trips a year. UA is looking at my purchase patterns and offering me a serious incentive (96,000 miles) to buy two biz tix. It's a slight stretch for me timing wise (I am abroad now and try to keep the international travel to only once a quarter) but I'm considering doing it because the payoff is so sweet.
The other offers (particularly the less than stellar ones) appear to be in line with the travel patterns posted with them. Granted, I don't know what the travel patterns are for the piddly offers that aren't accompanied with travel pattern info, so my inference could be way off.
Feb 4, 2018, 2:13 am
#120
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: PHX
Programs: AS 75K; UA 1MM; Hyatt Globalist; Marriott LTP; Hilton Diamond (Aspire)
Posts: 56,478
The other offers (particularly the less than stellar ones) appear to be in line with the travel patterns posted with them. Granted, I don't know what the travel patterns are for the piddly offers that aren't accompanied with travel pattern info, so my inference could be way off.
They might as well just have a monkey throwing darts for all the sense these targeted offers make.