MSY-MSP

What are these folks crazy.

My offer says "Just register, then purchase and fly 10 paid, qualifying roundtrip(s) (F, A, P, C, D, Z, Y, B, E, M, U, H or Q booking class) anywhere United®, United Express® or Ted(SM) flies between January 16 and April 15, 2005. After you've flown 10 qualifying roundtrip(s), you'll earn double miles for all qualifying roundtrips completed during the promotion period up to a maximum of 35,000 miles."

This is a crazy amount of flights to have to fly with in the time period for a promo. I guess this is the one for those fo us who flew too much in 1Q last year with the 3X deal.

Last year I flew 105K BIS with 129K EQM.

Morrissey

I'm a 1P, and I have to fly 6 flights to qualify. Fat chance!

UA_Flyer

At least all of you have received this offer.... I am not invited.

Perhaps UA thinks I am already loyal and fly enough, therefore there is no need to entice me to fly more.

transpac

Give it a couple more minutes. I am sure you will get the email, provided you are registered with UA/MP to receive emails. Mine showed up two minutes ago; I need one qualifying flight. Seems like a lame promotion anyway, too complicated (green star flights) and capped at 35k miles.

rally

still waiting for my emil,

its like the lottery , will it be one flight or ten flights,
or somewhere in the middle ?

Who has a spread sheet set-up for number of miles last year / number of flights needed ?

seatowndude

Bah, haven't gotten mine.. I'm a 2P, although most of my flight miles came on codeshare using US metal... knowing my luck it'd be something like 15 flights or something absurd.

Seatown-D

aussieinsf

Only 2 Flights required for me...1K with 108k BIS in 2004 - only rarely in H or above.

Superguy

Yes, I would like to know this as well, as I'm in the same boat.

I'm flying to Germany in March and it would be great to get a bonus 10k miles.

And I don't get WHY they don't allow government fares. My H class fare is $200 more than what someone in Q is paying for the trip, yet THEY can get miles and I can't?

Mike Jacoubowsky

Not much attraction to me then. I get a fair number of miles off my United Visa card, but of course those aren't EQM. If this were an EQM promotion, I'd find a way to get it working to my advantage! Otherwise, not much sense in paying a (possibly considerably) higher fare with a return that's the equivalent of perhaps $5-10k of credit-card purchases (when you own a buisness, you can run that up pretty quickly).

--Mike--

mahasamatman

No, it would not be a "qualifying fare".


I expect it's in the contract. It's considered extra remuneration and falls under the same rules as government employees accepting gifts from businesses.

Superguy

Thing is the contract fares are all over the place. I can understand that some fares applying that caveat. For example, in September, I went to San Francisco to a conference on a Y class fare that cost around $350. Now you and I know that's more like a U, T, or W fare. So I wouldn't expect the promotion, but it sure would be nice.

I did get E+ and 1.25x EQM, so that was nice.

Airline miles and vouchers don't apply to the "gift" rule. A few years back, the government could claim your miles, but that was changed around 2000. But notw, if it's your butt in the seat, you keep the miles. So if you were to get bonus miles, or vouchers for getting bumped, they're yours. I flew free for Christmas due to a bump in LAX on the government "Y" fare.

I just don't think it should be a blanket thing. If the fare is above what a lower classed qualifying Orbitz ticket is, it should apply. If it's below, like my Y SFO ticket was, no problem.

United's definitely not giving those on some gov't fares a fare shake.

Super

burr

1K here and need only fly 2 paid roundtrips.

mahasamatman

Which is why those fares earn miles. But perhaps boni are considered to be a different beast.

couscous

Still nothing here in the East Bay !! Where is the love ?

Superguy

Perhaps. Still doesn't mean it doesn't suck though.