News and notes from around the interweb:
- United MileagePlus targeted offers to buy up to a higher elite status for insane prices, Loyalty Lobby was asked to pay $7701 to upgrade from Gold to Platinum. Hahahahahaha.
- I view most Destination Marketing Organizations as a grift, or at best useless lighting money on fire. However the Destination Canada funding of a status match offer with Air Canada Aeroplan was pretty creative, though whether it’s worth taking money from non-flying citizens (taxes) and spending it to boost travel by Americans on Air Canada is an open question at best.
- Beautiful: Emirates A380 disappears into the fog on takeoff from LAX
Magic! ✨ Mother Nature making an @Airbus A380 @emirates disappear after take-off from @flyLAXairport. Video: @speedbirdhd via https://t.co/MKEUP1ztQs ✈️ @AirbusPRESS @AA380fanclub @AirbusInTheUS pic.twitter.com/jUgXuhTR7E
— Aeronews (@AeronewsGlobal) January 9, 2022
- Male Singapore Airlines flight attendant convicted of slapping a female flight attendant on the behind. How’s this for an excuse?
He argued that the victim’s posture was “provocative” and claimed to have touched her in order to correct her posture and maintain the image of the airline. When apologising for the incident later, he testified that he said he had no ill-intention, and that “if the victim feel (sic) otherwise, I apologise”.
- Miami Beach hotel where the Beatles, John F. Kennedy, and Frank Sinatra stayed, may be torn down (NYT)
One would think it would be easier to just sell PQP at $1 each. At most it should be $4000 if they qualified for Gold with just 16 PQF and $7000 PQP, and need $4000 additional PQP for Platinum. Unless, of course, we should have a bigger value for getting PQP without having to sit in a United aircraft.
How much for the buy up to GS?
Looks like you cant buy up to GS. I tried with my account and I wasn’t eligible for the offer. Due to my work I had double the PQP and Flights required for 1K last year. Was hoping to see a big bonus like they did last year based on my spend.
Eh…. who are we kidding? EVERY broad LOVES a good, stout smack on the a$$ every once in a while….. they liked to be kept in line! It gets their juices flowin’!
@Scotty, my understanding is that you need 40-50k depending on the city and your history. And most of it should be J tickets, not those deep discount P or Z first/business fares. A few personal trips in cheaper fare classes won’t hurt though.
“For molest, the man may be jailed up to two years, or fined, or caned, or any combination of the penalties. ”
For slapping someone on the buttock, you get caned. An eye for an eye!
My offer was To upgrade to 1K from platinum for $7,700…. Lol
My offer was $1200 for Gold to Platinum. I had 9100 PQPs.
$10.4k from Plat to 1K. Not sure that would be worth it even if PP were confirmable at time of booking. Might as well just spend the $$ to buy up to C/F rather than play upgrade lottery. Maybe I undervalue pre-boarding LOL
@Boraxo, It’s the free drink and boxed snack in coach that makes it worthwhile/s. The PlusPoints *might* be worthwhile, but only if you are planning international travel this year. You can buy a lot of upgrades for 10k, and they will clear when you spend the money, and it will count as 2022 PQP, so there’s that.