30+ pages of speculation

What if it actually comes out?? :eek:

I hope this can go to rest..really :D

DEQM ticketing question
 

Last year all that mattered is when flying occured, IIRC, but it doesn't matter because we can say with 99% certainty it's not happening this year.

I think we're hosed.

Called M+. Again. For the umpteenth time, the CSR "hadn't heard a thing" about the promo this year. This is bad. Last year, there were clear indications that they knew it was on the way a week or so before (IIRC). We're running out of time.

OTOH, she said that M+ has been getting lots of calls about this and the front line folks have been letting their supervisors know.... SO START CALLING!!!! :cool:

maybe it's just not going to happen this year, and a lot of us won't make 1P/1K/etc. Stranger things have happened :)

They (UA) better hope no one phat-phingers a fare. It'll be a FT pile-on :D

I think we're about due ;)

Pat

2006 DEQM T&Cs:

Terms and conditions for Double Elite Qualifying Miles and Segments

1. Offer valid for travel between October 24, 2006 and December 16, 2006.
2. This offer is neither transferable nor refundable.
3. Participation in this offer does not guarantee elite status
4. Qualifying travel must be posted to Mileage Plus account to qualify for the offer on/before December 31, 2006. Offer valid on flights operated by United, United Express®, and Ted only and not applicable on United-marketed code-share flights operated by other carriers.
5. Offer valid for all paid, published fares.
6. Elite Qualifying Miles/Segments will be credited on December 31, 2006.
7. Registration is required and must be completed, along with payment, between October 2 and November 24, 2006.
8. A one-time-only $499 (USD) fee is required.
9. Elite Qualifying Miles cannot be redeemed for award travel.
10. Offer is combinable with other combinable offers.
11. Double Elite Qualifying Miles/Segments in this offer are defined as two times the actual flight miles/segments posted to your account for qualifying flights taken during the promotional period.
12. Taxes and fees related to award travel are the responsibility of the passenger and additional taxes may apply for international residents.
13. Mileage Plus number must be provided prior to flight departure for trip to qualify.
14. Tickets purchased through United reservation offices are $15 per ticket higher and tickets purchased at airport ticket counters are $20 per ticket higher. Fees are subject to change without notice.
15. Other restrictions may apply. Offer subject to change without notice.
16.
United reserves the right to change or terminate the Mileage Plus program at any time without notice.

United and Mileage Plus are registered service marks. For complete details about the Mileage Plus program, visit www.united.com. (MPW116).

See post #200...

hello
 

deqm: Rip. :d:d:d

Yep, I mentioned this back in April 2006, although the method wasn't terribly well received.

From what I have seen it's just the five digit number in the URL that is key (like the 51876 number in your http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,51876,00.html example shown above). Changing that number can yield all sorts of interesting info.

For example, I didn't know that Accenture and Boeing employees were currently eligible for targeted double miles promotions.

Looks like United's content management system is now up to the 52300's or so, the latest content is not necessarily the highest number, but it seems like new promotions as they come out would get published on the CMS well before the links were made public, as I have found some really odd and interesting stuff just manually going through URLs.

Seems like it would be a simple hack to create a quick customized URL scanner that would auto-increment the target 5-digit number in the URL examples above, and spit out the page <title> from the HTML of each of the pages to quickly scan for site content. But now everyone will say that I have too much time on my hands ;-)

I don't need DEQM to get Q as a 1K for next year. I'll get there without it. Yet here I am hanging on every post and checking the 1K site regularly to see what happens.

I need to get a life ... or a shrink ... or both.

Probably TMI here, but I'll add my 2c. Two years ago I bought DEQM to make 2P (crazy, I know), and last year I simply did a cheapie run to LHR in November to make 1P. Even had lucky9876coins on the same flight so he guested me into the RCC on both ends of the ORD-LHR. Thanks lucky! (or was it the other FTer also flying that run that guested us both in, I don't remember)

That was a nice trip.

Just fly, it's cheaper and better than a shrink.:p
That was a fun run and it was great to meet you! Unfortunately UA seems to constantly raise W fares (SWU'able fares), which makes it harder and harder. I'll gladly fly revenue domestic though and Lufty F (JUST FOR THE FCT), and Singy on award tickets.:p

Edit to your edited response. Yeppers, rch4u and Richard4009 were also on that flight.

I've tried doing some target searching usin google and msn, but neither search engine was able to produce the same info as you listed. :( I'm hoping my company was targeted! :)

Did this mean that the bonus EQM for buying full fare Y did not get doubled last year? Anyone have any proof?

(i.e. you buy full fare Y to go SFO-LAX roundtrip. 1,000 actual miles but 1,500 EQMs would normally post to your account. Under 2006 DEQM would you have gotten 1,500 extra EQMs or 1,000 extra EQMs?