After reading through the thread, I am just as long as everyone else. What is really confusing me is the "pre-offer" status. What does that mean? Currently I am US Gold but have only flown 5k miles this year. If I fly 8 hop,skip and jumps, does that mean I am Chairman through Feb 2012? Or since I haven't really earned anything this year, I would only be Gold again?

Any help would be greatly apperciated.

So that's 4 different items for $507. Seems reasonable for plats trying to get to CP.

Or just CLT-PVR-PHX-CLT would get 4 items. Not too shabby.

This is wayyy too complicated!

"Hop, skip and jump" sound so simple in reality - indeed the expression denotes simplicity... yet this has to be the most complex and convoluted scheme I have ever read! I'm flummoxed and it's too much like hard work to work out how best to benefit.:td:

yes, but they will fill up a lot of flights for these routes that they probably normally dont do

Where in the FAQ does it say anything about current CP?

There is a footnote at the bottom of the FAQ:

Current CP Members: You are screwed, you must requalify via other methods only.

PVR-PHX-CLT-YYZ-CLT-PVR. Yes if you booked it before 7/7 then 0. Otherwise, I believe it would be 4...Central America, N/A East, N/A West, CLT-PVR Jump. If you can make the trip PVR-PHX-CLT-YYZ-YOW-CLT-PVR, it would be 5.

Actually according to the map BTR is EAST USA

Well, it explains how each number of credits affects each status level, and those examples don't include CP.

However, what they aren't clear on is the definition of "current status." I'm a CP with just shy of 50k EQM this year -- does that make me a "current CP," or a "current Silver"? I would guess the latter, since we're talking about the 2011 program year.

My other question -- and this really isn't clear to me -- is what happens after the promo. Let's say I fly 15k miles during the promo and complete 4 credits; at the time I hit 4 credits, my YTD EQM will be about 62k. By my math, that should give me a bump from Gold (status from getting 62k EQM) to Plat. But there's three months left in the year. If I want to hit CP, do I need to earn 25k more EQMs, or 38k?

US really needs to get someone to either write simpler rules (e.g., "we'll round up your EQMs to the nearest 25k" -- would that be so hard?) or just stick to simpler promos...

But according to the FAQ, it is West:

I think MSP ought to be West, but the list could be clearer about that.

so which trumps? the map or the FAQ

I wouldnt be surprized to be screwed over after spending 400 + bucks on a MR

Terrible promotion for us flyers who go to and from the same destination every week...just after being burned by the Jump Start and Trial Preferred BS...

Again folks, read the FAQ's, so many of these questions are clearly answered there.

First, it's not 'my definition', but rather what I think is pretty clearly what US intends, it is whatever status you had at 12:01 AM on July 7th, 2010, regardless of where you are this year, how you got that status, or anything else. The clarification on trial elite makes it pretty clear to me that this is what they mean, since they count trial Silver as Silver for those who have it.
Seems pretty clear to me that is correct.
You're Gold.
Nowhere, which is why it seems clear to me they get nothing since it specifically explains how this promotion works in moving all other members up to higher elite levels.
Seriously? :rolleyes:

Someone correct me if they think my rational is wrong on this...

PHL-CLT (counts east hop)
CLT-PVR (counts new route)
PVR-PHX (counts mexico hop)
PHX-LAS (counts west hop)
LAS-PHL (extra)

$456...any days this month. Thats 4-5 if im not wrong.

According to U.S. Plat desk, anything booked before June 7 does not qualify.........but they´ve been wrong before

How are you getting that right? I can't have it price out for anything NEAR that amount! :confused:

EDIT: Wow, I'm an idiot. Just found it. Haha. Actually though, I think I found a better cpm routing:

PHL-CLT
CLT-PVR
PVR-PHX
PHX-DEN
DEN-PHL

And still you get the East, West, New Route and Mexico!

Combining HSJ with Trial Silver
 

I did the "free" silver trial, but (because it can take "up to 7 days" to become silver after making that first ticket purchase) my status has NOT shown up as SP yet. I made the ticket purchase on the 6th though.

I will be flying the necessary 7,500 miles with a RT to TLV (ex-PHL) to keep the status through next year, BUT am I able to turn that into GOLD if I hit four of the HSJs?

This one is a bit of a stretch, but I'll ask this too: If I fly 15k and earn GP through the trial silver AND fly 4 HSJs, would I then go up to PLT?

Crossing my fingers hoping for a good answer :)

I think you can drop PHX-LAS and just go PHX-PHL. That should still count for the west hop.

Nope.

sometimes it also works to go phx-ord-phl

Nope meaning... Both?

I can't combine them at all because the status didn't post in time? DAMN! So close :mad:

I'm trying to find a decent fare for PHX-CLT-PVR-PHX (or any 4 pointer from PHX) but can't seem to do it. $800 is what I can come up with, not sure how some of you are finding $400-$500. Midweek only? Maybe it's just lower from east coast, I've only been trying from PHX.

And of course though I'm gold I'm a tad hesitant since I haven't qualified for anything in 2011 yet. I want to know I'm bumping myself to plat and not just from nothing to silver. I am fairly used to US' clear as mud promotions though. :)

According to the TCs "If you are enrolled in our Trial Preferred program, any change to your status from this promotion will occur after your trial period ends. " So this suggests to me that if you don't make your Trial Preferred Status, i.e. Silver, Gold or whatever, then your present status will be your starting point. If you are Trial Preferred for Silver and miss it by not flying enough, then the one bump would then bring you to Silver. "Your hop, skip and jump count will affect your pre-trial status, not your current trial status."


If you look at the incredibly long list of flights they supplied by the 'member' on the FAQ page, he took a lot of flights but they only qualified him for 3 hops, 1 skip and 1 jump. To have increased his H,S,J's I'm thinking he would have also had to have had a trip to Europe, one to the Carribbean, Asia, and/or South America.

And I agree, it doesn't particularly 'reward' the consistently frequent fliers who fly the same routes over and over because of business, etc.

I have AGS-CLT-ORD scheduled - that would be an East
AGS-CLT-PHL-MAN that would be Europe
CLT-SJD (Cabo) - hoping that will count even though booked before 7/7

Do any of the above count for more than one?

I'm thinking I need to go visit my Cousin in Seattle to get the fourth. Any thoughts?

Just wanted to get some confirmation that BOS-PBG + BOS-CLT-BTR would get me 4 hops, skips, and jumps?

BOS-PBG (new route)
CLT-BTR (new route)
CLT-BTR (North america, west)
BOS-CLT (North america, east)

Beckles said that you'd be Gold, but I'm thinking you'd be Chairman. Your status -- pre-offer -- is Gold, right? Why should it matter if you've only flown 5K miles this year if your status is Gold?

So let me get this straight --

If you are Platinum and fly 4 H/S/Js you will be Chairman for 19 months.

If you are Chairman the is nothing you can do to extend your status that long other than fly the regular 120 segments / 100k miles

I find it very hard to believe that everyone but Chairman's members can take advantage of this promotion. Though maybe I shouldn't. I put an e-mail into the CP desk we'll see what they say.

Hey, Jfunk138,

not sure about the PBG, but I found a 4 pointer out of BOS in one day...

BOS -> CLT -> BTR ($140 including taxes on Wed August 11)

BOS -> CLT gets 1 point for East Region,
CLT -> BTR Gets 2 points for West Region and New City

Then BTR -> CLT -> DCA -> BOS ($187 Including taxes Same Day trip)

DCA -> BOS gets us the shuttle point.

They would need to be booked as 2 One-ways though because the computer won’t let you book the return flight out of BTR because it departs less than an hour after scheduled arrival (though, I’m sure it’s the same exact plane going back to CLT, so I don’t see why it matters )

Hope this helps!

Matt Gulino

I’d be curious how you all read my situation. I did trial preferred, starting in March. I met the 7500 challenge, and received a “welcome to silver” e-mail from US on 7/5. I currently have only about 15k EQM for this calendar year. I did not have status last year.

As I’m reading the promo, if I do 4 hop/skips/jumps, it will give me gold through Feb 2012. It won’t matter what I earn for the rest of this year. Do others read it differently?

Bummer is that I already have 2 hops scheduled for the next few weeks, but I think a 4 segment trip to gold shouldn’t be that hard to arrange.

Here we go:

DCA-CLT-BTR-CLT-BOS-DCA for $356 .....

That's 2 hops (East and West), 1 jump (CLT-BTR) and 1 skip (BOS-DCA)

Actually, I was answering his first question about pre-offer status and not his second, He is Gold and in his example (hence my "you're Gold" answer to that), then for the second part he would move to CP, as is clearly outlined in the FAQ once we've established they're Gold.

Where are you getting west out of that? BTR looks to be counting as east to me.

From the FAQ:

North America, west includes: New Orleans, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; Little Rock, AR; St. Louis, MO; Des Moines, IA; plus the Canadian cities of Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta; and Vancouver, British Columbia; and Anchorage, AK.

The FAQ

Trying to price PHX-PVR-CLT-PHX for various August dates and it's coming back pretty high. That CLT-PVR leg seems expensive. I'm not that sophisticated with mileage runs and I'm just entering it as a multi-city trip. Can anyone give me pointers? Anyone else figure out a good 4-point itinerary from PHX yet?

At the risk of adding more confusion, both BTR and MSY airports are on the east side of the Mississippi.

Has anyone who is a CP actually gotten the email from USAir?

The few non-CP's I know at work got the email.

A CP friend and myself did not receive the email.

Sucks to be a CP.

Thanks USAirways!:td:

Rich

So if I'm a PLT now and do a 4 of these, I'm a CP til 2012, even if I only hit 50K? If so, I guess alot of us will be in Plattsburgh for the newly formed DOO!

That works great! Thanks!

If you read the FAQ, MSY and BTR are considered WEST..

HA! A Plattsburgh DO... Thats awesome. Someone please plan it!!!