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Old Oct 11, 2019, 5:20 am
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tl;dr - PQMs/PQDs/PQS going away, replaced with PQPs. $1 = 1 PQP. See chart below for thresholds:
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New Status Measures
Premier Qualifying Points (PQP): Basically the same as PQD. Everything that was a PQD continues to count, plus:



  • Copay component of miles+copay upgrades
  • Paid upgrades (TOD or "sticker-type")
  • Travel on partner airlines on partner stock (awarded as a fraction of the distance, similar to DL)

Premier Qualifying Flights (PQF): Same as BIS segments (no class of service bonus) except Basic Economy and award tickets don't count.


PQP Earning on Partners
You can now earn PQP on non-016 tickets when flying eligible partners.

"Preferred" Partners (mostly JV partners): 1/5 of the RDM earned, excluding status bonuses (but including fare class) on AC AD AV CA CM EW LH LX NH NZ OS SN.
Others: 1/6 of the RDM earned, excluding status bonuses (but including fare class) on other airlines with MP earnings available.

Note: Because all partners earn RDM by distance when not on an 016-ticket, this effectively awards PQP by distance, from 40% in many JV First and Business cabins to 5% in things like LX K.

Preferred partners:

  • Air Canada
  • Air China
  • Air New Zealand
  • All Nippon Airways
  • Austrian Airlines
  • Avianca
  • Azul Brazilian Airlines
  • Brussels Airlines
  • Copa Airlines
  • Eurowings
  • Lufthansa
  • SWISS International Airlines
MileagePlus partners:

  • Aegean Airlines
  • Air Dolomiti
  • Air India
  • Asiana Airlines
  • Croatia Airlines
  • Edelweiss
  • EgyptAir
  • Ethiopian Airlines
  • EVA Air
  • Juneyao Air
  • LOT Polish Airlines
  • Olympic Air
  • SAS
  • Shenzhen Airlines
  • Singapore Airlines
  • South African Airways
  • TAP Air Portugal
  • Thai Airways International
  • Turkish Airlines

Bulk Tickets
Per UA Insider in this post: Yes you will now earn PQP on bulk tickets but not necessarily for the cash value since the price of the ticket is opaque. Bulk tickets will be equal to the award miles you earn for the ticket (excluding Premier bonus miles, if any) divided by 5.

Foreign Addresses
The PQD waiver for foreign MP addresses will no longer apply beginning in 2020.


Credit Card Holders
The PQD waivers and PQM earnings from all Chase cards are ending. Instead, Chase cards allow you to earn 500 PQP for every $12,000 of eligible spend, but only up to the following limits:

1,000 PQP / $24,000: MP Explorer, MP Club, MP Awards, and MP cards, plus their business equivalents (bonus PQP do not count for 1K)
3,000 PQP / $72,000: MP Select and MP Platinum cards
10,000 PQP / $240,000: Presidential Plus and PP Business cards

Existing Flexible PQM (FPQM) on eligible cards will become FPQP at a 5:1 ratio on 01-Apr-20 and will only be applicable through Platinum status.

Originally Posted by UA Insider
United is updating the way MileagePlus members qualify for Premier status in 2020 for the 2021 program year. We recognized that distance was not the best way for us to measure customer loyalty, which is why we are introducing a new qualification structure to better deliver Premier benefits to our most valued customers. In 2020, members will only need to account for two factors to earn status: number of flights taken (Premier Qualifying Flights) and value of tickets purchased (Premier Qualifying Points).

Premier Qualifying Flights (PQF): every flight, a takeoff and landing, will count as a PQF except Basic Economy and tickets booked using miles.

Premier Qualifying Points (PQP): 1 PQP = 1 U.S. dollar spent. You will earn PQPs on the base fare of your ticket (no taxes and fees), Economy Plus and Preferred seat purchases, and now on paid upgrades, MileagePlus upgrade award co-pays and credit for Star Alliance partner flights not ticketed or operated by United.

Qualification requirements for 2020
Here’s how members will qualify for each Premier status level starting January 1, 2020 for status in the 2021 program year:



United Cardmembers who are eligible for a PQD waiver, PQM, or Flexible PQM (FPQM) based on annual card spend will be offered new ways to earn Premier qualifying points (PQP) based on annual card spend. The ability to earn a PQD waiver, PQM, or FPQM on these cards will end on December 31, 2019.

Learn more: https://mileageplusupdates.com/milea...qualification/
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Old Mar 17, 2020, 1:00 pm
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Originally Posted by Lifetimenotelite
The airlines have had a good run and dictating terms but UA bumping spend requiring 18 or 24k for 1K May have been a bridge too far even prior to the virus.
I'm not convinced this is true. Throughout 2019 it seemed that most of the plane with pre-board or group 1 boarding. A lot of people had status. And, for someone like me, I would have been 1k in 2019 if these were the requirements rather than barely squeaking by on platinum.
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Old Mar 21, 2020, 9:02 pm
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1K for <$2K ?

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Old Mar 21, 2020, 10:18 pm
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via 28 round-trips from LAX to CTG in Y? To each his own, but I think I'll pass. Nice fare, though.
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Old Mar 22, 2020, 1:47 pm
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Originally Posted by pmarrsouth
Originally Posted by jsloan
via 28 round-trips from LAX to CTG in Y? To each his own, but I think I'll pass. Nice fare, though.
That's how you end up on watch lists.
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Old Mar 22, 2020, 2:40 pm
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Originally Posted by kevflyer
That's how you end up on watch lists.
Dont a lot of people shuttle between the same city pairs frequently?
Not saying you wont end up on a watch list, but how unusual is this travel pattern?
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Old Mar 22, 2020, 10:20 pm
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Originally Posted by FlyingHighlander
Dont a lot of people shuttle between the same city pairs frequently?
Not saying you wont end up on a watch list, but how unusual is this travel pattern?
Well, that depends. How much baby powder are you bringing on board?
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Old Mar 23, 2020, 2:46 pm
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Originally Posted by FlyingHighlander
Dont a lot of people shuttle between the same city pairs frequently?
Not saying you wont end up on a watch list, but how unusual is this travel pattern?
Except most folks doing frequent trips between two city pairs do so for an actual purpose other than MR. 28 times back and forth within the year between LAX-PTY-CTG, let me guess, direct turn?
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Old Apr 5, 2020, 11:02 pm
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Quick question, will I earn PQF on partner fight booked into revenue booking class which won't earn any RDM?
Thanks!
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Old Apr 5, 2020, 11:11 pm
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Sadly, no.
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Old Apr 5, 2020, 11:19 pm
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Originally Posted by IMissThe747
Sadly, no.
Oh, thanks!
With reduced 1k requirements I found myself just few PQFs away from additional 320 plus points, guess I need to do a PQF run.
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Old Jun 14, 2021, 3:05 pm
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Looking to earn PQP ‘s, recently learned that United vacations issues bulk fairs. What is the earning rate for PQP‘s when crediting to UA. For example LAX-EWR-CDG-EWR-LAX in economy?
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Old Jun 14, 2021, 3:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Flying Machine
Looking to earn PQP ‘s, recently learned that United vacations issues bulk fairs. What is the earning rate for PQP‘s when crediting to UA. For example LAX-EWR-CDG-EWR-LAX in economy?
I would use caution - not every UAV ticket is a bulk fare, you want to make sure before you go past the refund period. IIRC, and I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but the following still applies:

Earning PQP on bulk tickets

Members will earn PQP on bulk tickets for flights operated by United according to the specialty ticket award mile earn and fare class bonuses. Premier qualifying points will be equal to specialty ticket award miles earned divided by 5. When calculating PQP, specialty ticket award miles should not include any Premier bonus miles earned from specialty tickets.

For example, if you flew one way from New York/Newark (EWR) to London Heathrow (LHR) on a bulk ticket in P fare class:

Base miles: 3,465

Base miles earn: 100%

Fare class bonus: 50%

Award mile earn: 5,198

PQP earn: 1,040 (Award miles earned divided by 5)

You’d earn 5,198 award miles (3,465 miles x (100% base mile earn + 50% fare class bonus)) and 1,040 PQP (5,198 award miles divided by 5). Learn more about specialty tickets
This chart shows the multiplier to calculate the "base miles earned" if not flying in P class, ie an economy ticket

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Old Jun 14, 2021, 3:55 pm
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I took this from the wiki
I took this from the wiki:

Bulk Tickets
Per UA Insider in this post: Yes you will now earn PQP on bulk tickets but not necessarily for the cash value since the price of the ticket is opaque. Bulk tickets will be equal to the award miles you earn for the ticket (excluding Premier bonus miles, if any) divided by 5.

How do you calculate award miles on a bulk ticket? Is it the same as mileage from great circle mapper? I’m so confused. I’m trying to earn PQP’s and thinking about buying a United vacations bulk ticket?

So from the post above it could be 25%, 50% or 75% of the GCM mileage? For Coach and 100% for P?? How is the divide by five calculated?

So for conversation: if you had a 10,000 mile trip and you booked in the lowest coach you would earn 2500 miles and then divide that by five so your PQP’s would be 500??
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Old Jun 14, 2021, 4:07 pm
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So for conversation: if you had a 10,000 mile trip and you booked in the lowest coach you would earn 2500 miles and then divide that by five so your PQP’s would be 500??
Yes, that's the gist of it. The calculator here: https://pqp.economiles.com includes values for bulk fares.

You may find some sweet spots -- especially discount PE and discount business class, and maybe the occasional deep discount economy fare to Asia -- but mostly, UA has aligned the earnings table to approximate how much the fares generally cost.
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Old Jun 14, 2021, 4:08 pm
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Originally Posted by Flying Machine
....How do you calculate award miles on a bulk ticket? Is it the same as mileage from great circle mapper? I’m so confused. ...
For a BULK ticket, it will be based on the miles traveled divided by 5, very close to what you get from great circle mapper, and then multiplied by a fare factor from here (look for Specialty tickets) (the table in the earlier post)
Originally Posted by Flying Machine
....if you had a 10,000 mile trip and you booked in the lowest coach you would earn 2500 miles and then divide that by five so your PQP’s would be 500??
yes, not that different from how partner flights are handled
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