yeah its a UA flight that I bought with them (they said to call after the flight to get it credited, but want to make sure this is true)

FFC purchases do not change the PQP/PQFs earned. It is odd for a mainline flight not to show its earnings. UX sometimes, but more likely partner flight. Not a codeshare?

Is the FFC a fully unflown flight credit?

A lot of time the earning will pop up in a day or two.

its a United operated flight

Well, crap...

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d7b428b710.jpg

Short on challenge due to cancelled flight
 

Looking for some opinions or advice. I recently completed a trip which should have put me just over the $18k challenge requirement. However, I'm now about $900 short of the threshold due to United canceled flight. I was supposed to fly home HKG-LAX-EWR on 20 April but the flight was cancelled due to maintenance. I was re-booked on a new itinerary the next day HKG-NRT-EWR except the HKG-NRT segment was on Hong Kong Airlines. I am thinking that I will never see the PQP for that segment. My question is, should I contact the GS desk asking for some type of review? It would seem very unfair if I'm penalized because of United's problem. Appreciate advice!

Should you? Why not? You really have nothing to lose. Worst they can do is say no.

It seems to be a reasonable request, but given it’s a challenge where you would get status beyond the normal rules I could understand the logic of them saying no. But one would think that good customer relations given it was their problem would say they should give it to you.

The thread below may be useful to you:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/show...ferrerid=19989

I would definitely reach out to UA.
It had happened to me in the past. UA cancelled the flight and I was put on AA, and I claimed from UA for original route credit. There was another time, I got booked into BA and also claimed the PQD and PQF. In my situation, the tickets were 016 issue by UA.

As an update, I wound up getting the original routing credit completed by contact the Mileage Plus Service Center. To my pleasant surprise, I was able to accomplish this by using the online chat feature. I had super low expectations but was feeling lazy. Took about an hour but ultimately the corrected PQD posted to my account. And last night I was automatically upgrade to GS. I'm back! ...until they kick me out again in January.

Very good, congratulations!

Was there ever any consensus on where renewals and first timers came in this year? I have a couple of employees who did not re-qualify at a hair over $50k, and a couple of first timers who did not get it at close to $60k.

Somewhere north of $50-60k, although there was less consistency than previous years - and general consensus was those flying on corporate discount fares were NOT eligible.

Today flew LHR-DEN-LAS. The first segment put me over the threshold for the status challenge. While inflight to LAS, my status updated to GS.

That was a rough few months!

2 GS boarding a SFO-EWR mid week 2345

Confirmed only 2GS with FA

tyats way down from my experience in 2023, 5x

Not following this at all?

they have not gone away. I know we get a certain number of nominations. I’m not one of them because I have historically requalified on my own. We were also told the corporate discounts do not interfere with hitting GS.