Hello
A newbie around here, have been lurking around the forum a few days and this is my first post. Any Advice is greatly appreciated. Please excuse me if this does not belong here or if this has already been answered.
I am all psyched as I made it to the Silver Status as of today. Know its only the low life of the Elite but still pumped up. I understand it depends on person to person but again hoping for a friendly Guru to advice, I usually fly 10 14 trips a year and most of the trips are between TPA and EWR which yield a very low milage at at a very high CPM :(
I already have a Credit card with United (Since Continental days) so I get the benefit of checked baggage free option. The only benefit I see with the Silver Status is Priority Status access and possibility of getting an E+ seat during checkin. Wont believe in any feasibility of getting any CPUs as a Silver unless Santa promises me one in person.
My spending in all for the said 12 flights till date this year came up to ~ 5K. Most of the higher priced tickets are work related due to quick bookings though. And I cannot do multi segment for these work related due to various constraints. Based on the Given Data would it even make sense to Struggle for an Elite Status or Loyalty as I have may a times seen that there is an alternative airlines mostly the likes of Spirit, southwest and sometimes AA or JetBlue that offer a better priced ticket directly or thru other deal sites?
I have atleast one international trip planned for next year and am not against MRs if I could learn how to do them which i hope to learn from the forum. but to start with I am still debating on the loyalty and status chase as a silver.
A newbie around here, have been lurking around the forum a few days and this is my first post. Any Advice is greatly appreciated. Please excuse me if this does not belong here or if this has already been answered.
I am all psyched as I made it to the Silver Status as of today. Know its only the low life of the Elite but still pumped up. I understand it depends on person to person but again hoping for a friendly Guru to advice, I usually fly 10 14 trips a year and most of the trips are between TPA and EWR which yield a very low milage at at a very high CPM :(
I already have a Credit card with United (Since Continental days) so I get the benefit of checked baggage free option. The only benefit I see with the Silver Status is Priority Status access and possibility of getting an E+ seat during checkin. Wont believe in any feasibility of getting any CPUs as a Silver unless Santa promises me one in person.
My spending in all for the said 12 flights till date this year came up to ~ 5K. Most of the higher priced tickets are work related due to quick bookings though. And I cannot do multi segment for these work related due to various constraints. Based on the Given Data would it even make sense to Struggle for an Elite Status or Loyalty as I have may a times seen that there is an alternative airlines mostly the likes of Spirit, southwest and sometimes AA or JetBlue that offer a better priced ticket directly or thru other deal sites?
I have atleast one international trip planned for next year and am not against MRs if I could learn how to do them which i hope to learn from the forum. but to start with I am still debating on the loyalty and status chase as a silver.