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The Offer
- Chase United Explorer is offering 80,000 miles after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months your account is open + 5,000 miles upon approval when you use your United agent‘s promotional code + 5,000 miles when you add an authorized user in the first 3 months your account is open
Card Details
- $150 annual fee, waived first year
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 2x miles on all United purchases
- 2x miles on dining and other hotel stays
- 1x miles on all other purchases
- First checked bag for free
- 2 United Club one-time passes per year
- Priority boarding
- Up to $120 Global Entry, TSA PreCheck® or NEXUS fee credit
- 25% back on United inflight and Club premium drink purchases
- No foreign transaction fees
- Earn 1 PQP for every $20 spent on purchases with your Explorer Card, up to 1,000 PQP per year
- Earn $100 in United® TravelBank cash after you spend $10,000 on purchases each calendar year with your United℠ Explorer Card. You can use United TravelBank cash toward future flights on United® or United Express®
- Receive $50 back as a statement credit on both your 1st and 2nd prepaid hotel stays purchased directly through United® Hotels with your United℠ Explorer Card, up to $100 each anniversary year.
- Enroll to receive up to $5 back as a statement credit each month on rideshare purchases when you pay with your United℠ Explorer Card, up to $60 each calendar year. Yearly opt-in is required
- Receive $25 in United® TravelBank cash, up to $50 each anniversary year, for your 1st and 2nd Avis or Budget car rental booked directly through cars.united.com and paid for with your United℠ Explorer Card
- Offer ends 6/4/25
Our Verdict
Previous best was 80k + 5k. Most people won’t be eligible due to the 5/24 rule. We will add this to our list of the best credit card bonuses.
Hat tip to reader Joe
View Comments (127)
I received my 80,000 miles today. No 5,000 bonus for agent code. Since I got my agent code from someone in this thread, I will just wait and see if the 5,000 posts later. If not, I am content with the 80,000.
I got my 5K miles from using agent code and was credited to my account within 2 weeks of opening if anyone is curious how long it can take. I basically did a quick live chat with an agent and asked them to refer me for the credit card and they sent over a personalized link.
From Chase:
In regards to the additional 5,000 bonus miles for using a
promotional code on each account, please allow United to
add the miles within six to eight weeks. If you do not
receive the bonus miles after the time frame provided,
please provide the promotional code and booking ID on each
account for the flights on which you were given the
promotional offers. We will need this information in order
to escalate this to United.
As below comments say, I do not get the extra 5K agent code miles. I only got 80K. I sent a secure message to Chase and they escalated this to the United saying that adding miles are all directly from United not from Chase. Let's wait and see.
Same as the two comments below.
Statement closed and got 80k + 5k which I believe is from authorized user, but nothing from the agent code.
Just to add a late DP: Applied for the UA Explorer with the 80k link in the other thread on June 20. Got stuck in fraud jail for a little bit but was approved July 01 and the 80k tracker showed up on my account today. I added an in-flight code for the extra 5k but haven't seen anything about that yet; looks like that'll be 6-8w.
signed up with agent code found here and on reddit V139840 last month
few days ago i hit the target and today my tracker reflected it too, but not seeing the extra 5k? is this an issue with the code?
got approved with 80k offer link yesterday for P2 however i dont see tracker yet in app. is there any menu i need to check to see tracker.
It could take a day or so. Yesterday was a bank holiday so that may have affected it as well.
Yes. Got the offer tracker . So 80k link is still good
Will be 60k starting 6/22/25 per DOC
Link shows 75k max now.