Additionally, to be eligible to qualify for Premier Platinum status, you must fly a minimum of four
paid flight segments on flights operated by United and / or United Express during a calendar year, excluding Basic Economy (N) fares.
To be eligible to qualify for any Premier level, you must fly a minimum of four
paid flight segments on flights operated by United and / or United Express during a calendar year.
Additionally, to be eligible to qualify for Premier Silver status, you must fly a minimum of four
paid flight segments on flights operated by United and / or United Express during a calendar year, excluding Basic Economy (N) fares.
This includes premier qualifying dollars (PQD), and also the stipulation that you must fly a minimum of four
paid flight segments each year in order to maintain your status.
Not exact matches
Using the LA to Zakynthos example, a
flight of 6,850 flown miles (oneway), we would be
paying 35,000 Avios per
segment for a total of 70,000 Avios roundtrip.
Besides, the Big Front Seat is priced per
segment, and not per
flight, so if you fly with a connection, you would
pay more for your roundtrip ticket.
Avoid booking connecting
flights, because you will
pay separately for each
segment.
Unfortunately, there isn't, so when the computer routes your
flight via Miami or Washington, DC, it adds an extra
segment, meaning that you end up
paying 15,000 Avios instead of 7,500.
Avios has a distance - per -
segment based award chart — you
pay for each
flight based on the length of each
segments.
Awards are priced out
segment - by -
segment, meaning if your trip is actually made up of two
flights with one connection, you
pay for each
flight individually according to the chart below.
The system also allows online credit card authorisation and payment to ensure that the customer
pays a deposit for the
flight segments at the time of booking.
Even though you don't earn elite miles on award tickets and I value my airline elite status greatly, there's something extremely satisfying about booking an expensive domestic
flight and only
paying $ 2.50 in fees, which is what most carriers charge per
segment on domestic US
flights (plus any ticketing fees).
British Airways is a distance - per -
segment based award chart — you
pay for each
flight based on the length of each
segment.
Yeah I could make a stop over in HNL to get to Sydney... but that's a much less valuable
flight segment than one I'd
pay for.
In these cases, LATAM prices each leg of the
flight separately, using two different systems.If you are traveling to South America from somewhere in the U.S. that LATAM doesn't serve, you'll
pay 70,000 kilometers for the LATAM leg, then an additional distance - based price on the
segments with the partner airlines.
Of course, like all Avios awards, you will need to
pay extra Avios for each
segment of your award including the connecting
flights.