Going to be short of United 1K by $1100 PQD. Is it worth taking a couple trips and spending personal funds to qualify?

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Not for $1100 imo. I’ve been GS or 1K for the last 4 years and would say it’s worth far less than that

The thing that tempts me are the GPUs/Pluspoints. I know they are changing, but have they been hard to use in the past? RPUs from Platinum are awful

I’ve been able to use GPUs in two circumstances.

The first is when I was GS and could use them on award fares. Now THAT was a perk

The second was upgrading a paid business fare to first (traveling across the pond for work)

The rest have gone to waste. We’ll see how availability looks once we can upgrade fares below W

Maybe. If you are good with miles /segments it means you are taking lot of cheap flights.

What is your upgrade rate? Maybe it is worth it that in all these flights you improve your upgrade chances .

Also starting next year it is even more PQD requirement. Do you have a shot at requalifying next year?

I’m taking cross country flights. Never get upgraded as I’m flying out of a hub. I won’t qualify for 18K spend for sure.

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