2020 UA MP elite status buy-up offers(for higher status than earned in 2019)
 

UA has traditionally offered buys in mid-January, 2020 offers came live 10 January 2020

https://promotions.united.com/offers/premierstatus

I assume we should expect offers for 2020 to come out soon? Didn't see a 2020 thread yet.

Consulting the wiki, the earliest has been 11 January, the latest 24 January and the mean 17 January.
So probably still a week or so out.

Just missed re-qualifying by a few dollars
 

I just missed maintaining my current UA 2019 status into 2020 by ~$400 qualifying dollars. I know that AA has the option to pay $ or miles to keep your status, but it doesn't seem like UA has the same option (at least I can't find it).
Any hope of bridging this gap after the fact? If not, I guess I will be switching to AA.

Welcome to FT!

UA will often offer status buy-ups in January.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...ed-2018-a.html

Wow, Kacee, I would have never found that - thanks for the link!

FYI, buy up appears to now be active, and certainly looks in-line with prior years; I was at nearly 73k PQM, 29 PQS, 7.2k PQD. Buy-up to Platinum is listed at 2799.

(Given the changes we already know, I'm not dropping the equivalent of several first-class domestic tickets on 40 points; half of my travel is EWR to BOM, where most of the 777 has status. With the new JFK-BOM route, 2020 has now started as my first year with Delta.)

GLTA!

Seeing the same thing

2019:
Basic Member
30k+ PQM (mostly one NZ J trip)
1700 PQD

$1450 buyup to Silver. No thanks.

My SO was Gold
70.5k PQM
50 PQS
6.7k PQD

$3650 buyup. So ~$1400 for the PQD and $2250 for the PQM, I suppose.

2019 Total PQM balance: 66,027

2019 Total PQS balance: 27.5

2019 Total PQD balance: $7,373



$3599 buy up....thats 2 business class tix to Europe, NOPE!

I keep getting this error when I try and get my offer:

Im definitely entering my correct info. Come on United at least try to take my money..

Same. ~65k PQMs, just barely $6k PQDs. I mean, I'm not going to bite (going to concentrate my travel back on DL), but I was curious what the numbers might be.

1,700 PQM short of Platinum and my offer is $849. No, thanks.

Although, I am waiting for some ORC to be worked out. If it goes through, that would add about 1,200 PQM. Would I get a different offer then?

What is the link for the 2020 buy up? The promotions.united.com/offers/premierestatus link still references 2019 buy up.

https://promotions.united.com/offers/premierstatus login then reload the page.

Link is correct. When you sign in and click through it says "Unlock [XXXXXX] status for 2020"

Just the front page needs updating, apparently.