United (temporarily) relents on their confirmed regional upgrade policy change

lol, close, but not quite right 🙂

"Anybody" will now earn 2 CR1s when crossing the 75k and 100k thresholds. (you said 1k).

-David

wow.

The lack of incremental/interim rewards (such as CR1s every qtr) was the crux of my email to 1KVoice.

That plus, imo a total lack of creativity in rightly rewarding high mileage fliers (150K+) while not totally stripping the low 100K flier's possible perks.

I am happy with this arrangement, kudo to new UA FF

Whew. Thanks, UA. I already have 50KEQM booked for Q1 (all international), but I count on these CR-1s for advance upgrades for me & a companion on the dreaded BOS-SFO/SFO-BOS flights. Let's just hope there's at least some advance NF space out there.

Any word about how UA will treat Million Milers? Will MM's still receive two CR-1's at the beginning of each calendar year as they do currently?

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned on FT, so here goes.

This was UA's plan all along. They were playing with us and wanted to see if they could up the anty with their CR1 scheme. When they realized they couldn't get away with it, the 'gave it back' to us.

This makes many UA flyers happy. UA figures now that we're happy again, we'll ride out the other changes.

It's one big scam, and we fell for it.

In 2011, is is confirmed we UA MMs will get the two CR-1s. What happens in 2012, is still a mystery.

That's awesome! I didn't catch this on FT so I am glad I saw it here! I need those CR-1s for my hard to clear IAD-SEA flights especially now my 1P wife will be on the itinerary with me. She will need all the help I can give her to get her to clear with me as it is sometimes a nailbiter for me to clear that flight.

You get 2 RPU when you hit Platinum (75K miles) then 2 for each 25K miles flown... Does that mean for the following year when your award mile earning is reset at 25,000, 50,000 you will continue to earn the 2 RPU?

Same question for 1K GPU.