Prediction of ability to buy trial Preferred on US in 2015?

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Dec 21, 2014, 8:43 am

ftv

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Join Date: Nov 2008

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Prediction of ability to buy trial Preferred on US in 2015?

I'm a UA 1K. No trips scheduled rest of the year.

Looking to probably do a trial US Preferred (FTers give reasons it is better than an AA status match, but I am open.)

Looks like US and AA merge FF programs in March of 2015. I am concerned about the availability of a US trial Preferred beginning Jauary 1, 2015 and wondering if I should just start it December 31, 2014 to be sure I can get it.

Anyone have thoughts?

Dec 21, 2014, 11:09 am

Often1

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Anybody who can answer this question with any remote certainty would be divulging proprietary inside information of US / AA. Anybody else is engaging in uninformed speculation.

Only you can evaluate the risk-reward.

Dec 21, 2014, 2:27 pm

mre5765

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Why wouldn't you just buy the silver challenge now, and then in 90 days fly the 30K miles to get Chairman status in Feb, and then EXP in March. You will net 10 SWUs this way. Seems like a no brainer.

See also http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...atinum-status/

Why assume US dividend challenges will be available after today? They could disappear any day between now and March.

Seems like you think an additional 11 days will make a difference for you to get 30K mikes. Forget the 11 days and just fly 11 percent more miles in the 79 days you will have left of your challenge in 2015.

Dec 21, 2014, 4:46 pm

middlekingdom

Join Date: Dec 2012

Posts: 93

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Originally Posted by Often1

Again speculation based on some publicly available information. I have special rewards on US and can nominate a person for Trial sliver. When I checked, the page informs me that I need to nominate a person for this reward before Feb 28th. One can guess it will be around till 28th Feb. Can they withdraw that reward and have that privilege expire tomorrow? They could but then one would hope they would have informed us earlier. Could they remove as a general case and keep it as a special rewards? They could but I kind of doubt it.

What comes after Feb 28th, I could not hazard a guess and if I did, it would be pure uninformed speculation.

Dec 22, 2014, 8:38 am

danohio

Join Date: Jan 2014

Location: New York

Programs: AA EXP, EY Gold, SPG Gold, Hilton Gold, IHG Gold, Hertz 5*, Global Entry

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As of today, the US site says no new enrollments are being accepted for trial preferred status. I checked and my nomination is still there, but at least publicly, the program appears over for now.

Dec 22, 2014, 8:45 am

mh4ll

Join Date: May 2014

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Is this a change as of today?

Dec 22, 2014, 8:12 pm

msvacation

Join Date: Aug 2004

Location: PBI

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Originally Posted by mh4ll

Is this a change as of today?

According to the CSR I spoke to this morning, they just got the memo today. He even pled my case to a supervisor. No Go.

I was just talking about signing up yesterday, waited, and.........

Lesson learned

Dec 23, 2014, 9:33 am

TritonFlyer

Join Date: Dec 2001

Location: Cleveland, OH

Programs: AA EXP

Posts: 122

Trial Preferred for 2015

My sense is it's unlikely to continue as before.

The AA equivalent allows going for Platinum, but not Executive Platinum, and I'd predict they stick with that.

Glad I signed up for the trial 3 weeks before they closed to new. Will be close and may require some pure mileage or segment runs, but will make CP by 2/28.