johnep1

That was me in 1B. The funny thing was after I commented on your FT luggage tags, it turned out a few others in the F cabin were doing MRs to PVR as well.

Agree regarding the FA on PVR-CLT. I tried to be as nice as I could to him but there was no cheering him up.

But, as you stated, CP here I come.

vip66

Maybe someone can clarify what this would earn:

EWR - PHL - BCN - PHL - EWR?

EWR-PHL is on Shuttle but is not listed as one of the Skip routes. So would this be three (skip + east hop + Europe hop) or two points (east + Europe hop)?

BoeingBoy

EWR-PHL is not a Shuttle flight, since the Shuttle is strictly nonstops between LGA&BOS/DCA and between BOS & DCA. So your route would be 2 'hops' - East and Europe.

Jim

ludocdoc

Only remaining question for me is, what will US do for the flight that went mechanical and returned from mexico to Tuscon, getting me into PVR around 4 hours late (1:45 aM vs 9:40pm) the night before my final jump? I had dreamed they'd just automatically drop a few thousand comp miles in, but alas, this is still US...

andy3fan

I just made Plat yesterday via 75,000 miles flown, and would love to use this promotion to get to CP. Is there anyone who earned a status post 7/7, then completed a 4 point HSJ, and then was bumped up a level? I've followed along for all 104 pages of this thread, but I'm not sure if we actually have a documented case of this working out for someone? Thanks in advance for the help.

johnep1

US will never do something like that automatically - you'll have to email and ask. But you'll probably end up with a few thousand miles out of it. Tell them that it made your day in PVR useless (other than earning CP).

Is it just me, or are flights posting to US account faster now than they used to? My PVR-CLT flight from Sunday posted this morning. Now I'm just waiting for the CP to hit my account. I guess I'll need to call US after that happens and ask that they remove my US # from my next reservation and reenter it so that the system picks it up as CP and not PP. Or has their 17 year old intern / IT department fixed that?

Mudfish

Just finished the BOS-PBG run. Unfortunately I had booked my flight before seeing the advice to use Orbitz, but it worked out fine as the load on the return flight was very light. At least two other guys on the flight also getting that point this morning. One did the same as me with the move up, the other did two one-ways.

According to the FA, "tons" of people are flying that route for this promotion. She wasn't at all surprised to see several of us get off, then back on the plane about 10 minutes later.

ludocdoc

I wish I had thought of that -- I didnt get upgraded on the way to SFO; I bet it was because I was treated as gold since thats what I was when I booked. Should've thought of that. Agree, things are posting really fast. Nice.

higgies

Woohoo! This actually worked. I thought I was going to have to call, but my status was updated today.

I had received an email stating I was only 1 H/S/J away from completing the program, so I did a PHL-DEN turnaround on Saturday. I got upgraded on the return also, so that was nice. The crew mentioned it, but I think they're accustomed to this. Worked out pretty well as the stop in DEN was only 66min.

Anyway, I already got the automatic bump to Gold, which I beleive is now good until 2/12, right? Finally US Air did something right.

puchalskir

I did the BOS-PBG run this weekend too. At least 8 people were doing it on the outbound and return.

The Sunday 4pm PBG-BOS was amusing. The plane was delayed on take-off because they didn't have a way to get a woman off the plane, because she had a broken leg. She couldn't go down the steep ladder from the plane so they drove the plane to the lone jetway.

They had to angle the jetway so it wouldn't hit the propeller. It was quite comical. They finally got her out by lifting her in a wheel chair from the plane over a very wide gap into the jetway. The gap was so wide, they didn't let us board using the jetway, but back out onto the tarmac.

My wife's status already shows platinum now. Sweet. I get to keep my CP even though I'm going to fly less than 50k miles this year.

Rich

BizJet

For those of you who are using the HJS promo to maintain current 2010 status through 2011 (actually 2/2012) rather than move up a level, is there any way to get "confirmation" from US that the HJS completion has been noted? Do they send a congratulatory e-mail or anything like that?

As far as I can tell, there is nothing on the US website that says how long status is good for, so no way to see if the data has changed from 2/11 to 2/12.

It doesn't sound like there have been any issues with people getting their HJS points counted correctly, but it would be good to have the peace of mind now rather than waiting until 3/11 to make sure I'm still a CP.

jsciv

Data point here: Saturday's flights posted yesterday, Sunday's flights posted this morning, and this afternoon my status bumped up to CP. Nice!

Now I need to figure out how to make best use of the upgrades...

Devyan1

Anyone Flying CLT-MLB this Saturday, September 25?

BoeingBoy

I don't think there's a way to maintain your current status through 2012 with the HSJ promo (unless <4 hop/skip/jump flights give you enough miles to maintain it and that's all you do - i.e. you maintain your status the old fashioned way). Each 4 HSJ points ups your current status by one level.

From the promotion page: "Your new Preferred status will be good for the 2011 Preferred year, which ends February 29, 2012." As for seeing the date in your account, I have no idea since I'm not even a member.

Jim

Middleseat8

Flew dca-lga-clt-MLB-clt-den. The turn in MLB was no problem. Also had a crew change there so no wired looks or questions.