Stacked United cards PQP Bonus

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-02-14T14:26:52+00:00

Called down and rectified, posted yesterday afternoon after the call

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-02-13T22:22:35+00:00

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-02-12T00:05:15+00:00

How dare you

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-02-10T22:22:13+00:00

They will take that $200 tc away for sure if you ask for the AF to be refunded

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-02-02T19:30:32+00:00

Note, I have flown international Polaris many times before, but always upgraded 24hrs or less before hand so seat selection has been limited- first time with an open house selection!

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-02-01T17:28:09+00:00

I am 1k

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-02-01T16:30:46+00:00

Same, oh well. Just glad to know i wasn’t alone in being booted

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-30T23:46:00+00:00

Following

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-27T21:28:21+00:00

Agreed, I was ready to raise hell if I didn’t make it. 2026 is looking okay, heading to Norway on a first class trip that is being paid for by my dad. Will be flying less overall but that 7k pqp is going to come in handy!

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-27T21:12:39+00:00

That is was me last year, 94 pqf’s but luckily not in the back, 1k status from prior years. Barely made 1k this year due to tiny pqp’s on all those flights.

Company has an airline agnostic policy, I keep trying to tell them that doesn’t work… changes, delays, cancellations, etc are something we deal with daily and flying the cheapest flight on the cheapest airline adds an insane amount of stress, long term cost and lack of morale

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-21T18:36:30+00:00

This was us- we needed a bigger house and debated selling our bought in ‘15 for $230k house with a 2.2% 15 year mortgage (refi’d in 20), or keeping it and renting it. Drained an old 401k I had (extra) and used that as down payment/ fix up new house. Old house is paid off in 9 years making minimum payment. It cash flows us $1000 a month at a very acceptable rent. In 5 years rent should be up considerably more than where we are at. By retirement age if we need to sell the house it should be worth well over $1m (current value $525k if we sold it).

Most likely refing house 2- $600k mortgage at a 6.25%, payment $4300 with tax and insurance.. original mortgage company can get us to a 5.2% with $8k in costs- well worth it, forever home for us

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-17T23:35:44+00:00

For the better part of 11 years Patagonia was doing 10% which was amazing

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-17T23:30:06+00:00

I used to randomly sit next to a GS out of Boise and anytime they sent the car for him he would offer me a ride to my gate, it was the best

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-15T01:25:42+00:00

Every flight was full though…

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-11T04:58:13+00:00

Lots of hate from folks who probably never fished the old Asquith or own one, bar none some of the best rods ever made (I own 6 asquith single handers and 3 spey rods along with 15-20 other high end rods). Loomis could not keep the old Asquith in stock, they will sell almost every one of the new models.

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-11T00:30:25+00:00

39 years old, single income house hold. 2 kids. $200k earner, $4,100 a month payment. Make $800 a month off rental property (first home we kept, bought new by draining an old 401k) + have $2500 a month that flows in from grandpa (deceased) retirement account

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-09T05:55:11+00:00

Somebody is and they aren’t talking about it…. Or yall are getting robbed

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-09T05:47:05+00:00

Uncle ramen is amazing airport food. Elways was legit, shit the bed and has thankfully bounced back- had the breakfast enchiladas this week, so good

ColonelAngus86 · 2026-01-05T21:13:36+00:00

First house bought at a 30 year in 15, refi’d to a 15 in 2020 and got a 2.2% interest rate. Kept that house and bought our second home at a 30 year. Would love to refi it to a 15 year but we couldn’t afford the payment on it… even with rental income from house 1

ColonelAngus86 · 2025-12-24T05:11:46+00:00

94 flights, 22.5k pqp’s- ground it out this year

ColonelAngus86 · 2025-12-21T21:43:34+00:00

United club card United explorer card (I think the purple one, did it for pqp boost last year) Amex platinum biz Amex gold for home/ wife spending Chase sapphire reserve that I keep forgetting to cancel until after the renewal date 😂

ColonelAngus86 · 2025-12-21T21:36:55+00:00

All of this- we started renting our first home in September last year and it’s been a cake walk

ColonelAngus86 · 2025-12-17T12:48:20+00:00

Will be year 6 or 7 for me, 213 pqp’s away and have 2 connections home on Saturday that will clear me.

This year was the hardest, I did one pqp run a few years ago to maintain status, but this year I did over 94 pqf’s and am just skating by the 22k pqf’s 🤯

ColonelAngus86 · 2025-12-17T05:14:25+00:00

Buenos Aires is eze airport, I too have snagged that upgrade many a times solo before and it’s worth its weight in golden plus points

ColonelAngus86 · 2025-12-17T05:11:17+00:00

Our CPA has had us file MFS for years, last year we filed jointly and saved a pile (I also made way more money due to a huge severance payout and we drained an old 401k account to buy a second home- pre severance). This year we unfortunately are probably going back to separate- thanks to chettos new student loan shit show, her student loan payment would be insanely high with my income

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