Dec 30, 2021, 11:36 pm
United 2023 Qualifying Requirements (first The Points Guy, now UA.com)
Dec 31, 2021, 4:03 pm
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I think Luc has done the best he could under the circumstances... referring to Luc Bondar, VP of Mileageplus...
Dec 31, 2021, 8:08 pm
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Dec 31, 2021, 9:41 pm
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Maybe they will see what bookings look like and if they are below the levels a year ago, they will start offering promotions.
LH said bookings for the first two months were way down and they canceled many flights.
LH said bookings for the first two months were way down and they canceled many flights.
Dec 31, 2021, 9:59 pm
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Jan 1, 2022, 7:51 am
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I got my hopes up there would be some rollover when I logged into the app and saw my PQPs/PQFs hadn’t reset. But they have on the website. Still feel burned about the promo and all I got was these lousy PQPs!
Jan 1, 2022, 11:12 am
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Everyone in media blames the "virus" for the cancellations....
Jan 1, 2022, 8:22 pm
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My bet is that the requirements in 2023 for 2024 qualifying are the same or higher. UA will continue to use PQP promos as they feel necessary to maintain incentives for loyalty.
Jan 1, 2022, 8:40 pm
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Yup, January 1 is the start of the qualifying spend/segments for 2023 status. UA still has a month until the new status year to do the right thing and announce priority within Premier levels for upgrades to those who spent the money and flew the segments (if needed) to qualify, as Delta has done, and as AA implicitly does. Hopefully they cut down on promotions a bit also - the airports prove people are flying again.
Jan 1, 2022, 8:50 pm
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Yup, January 1 is the start of the qualifying spend/segments for 2023 status. UA still has a month until the new status year to do the right thing and announce priority within Premier levels for upgrades to those who spent the money and flew the segments (if needed) to qualify, as Delta has done, and as AA implicitly does. Hopefully they cut down on promotions a bit also - the airports prove people are flying again.
David
Jan 2, 2022, 12:29 am
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Jan 2, 2022, 8:37 am
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For comparison, the same period last year, December 26, 2020 to January 1, 2021 (7-day average of 1,064,667) was off 54% from December 26, 2019 to January 1, 2020.
Jan 2, 2022, 10:34 am
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Even with the latest Covid surge, latest TSA checkpoint 7-day average between December 26, 2021 to January 1, 2022 (1,927,163) is only 16% off from December 26, 2019 to January 1, 2020 (2,300,319). No idea how that translates into specific airlines, but in general, it might dis-incentivize UA from handing out free PQP. We'll see...
Wouldnt United care more about the level of OPM traffic they are seeing (or more likely not seeing) during other less heavy-travel days/months of the year?
Isnt United's entire elite status system is geared towards OPM flyers? (While one can argue the RDM system is geared towards credit card holders). OPM doesnt make a full come back, United will have to continue offering incentives.
And international OPM flying is not making a full come back anytime soon, if ever, especially TPAC.
Jan 2, 2022, 12:36 pm
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Wouldnt this be simply becase of holiday traffic?
Wouldnt United care more about the level of OPM traffic they are seeing (or more likely not seeing) during other less heavy-travel days/months of the year?
Isnt United's entire elite status system is geared towards OPM flyers? (While one can argue the RDM system is geared towards credit card holders). OPM doesnt make a full come back, United will have to continue offering incentives.
And international OPM flying is not making a full come back anytime soon, if ever, especially TPAC.
Wouldnt United care more about the level of OPM traffic they are seeing (or more likely not seeing) during other less heavy-travel days/months of the year?
Isnt United's entire elite status system is geared towards OPM flyers? (While one can argue the RDM system is geared towards credit card holders). OPM doesnt make a full come back, United will have to continue offering incentives.
And international OPM flying is not making a full come back anytime soon, if ever, especially TPAC.
Jan 2, 2022, 1:56 pm
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Infer the data however you'd like. Absent proprietary data from specific airlines, all I have posted are TSA average traffic for the past 7 days and for the same period a year and 2 years ago. Feel free to look at other periods, and you will find similar trends - much smaller variance in 2021 to present vs. the same period in 2019; whereas the deficit was more significant 2020 vs. 2019.