Update 12/18/19: Deal now expires 1/22 instead of 1/9
The Offer
- Chase is offering a bonus of up to 65,000 miles on the Chase United Explorer personal card. Bonus is as follows:
- 40,000 miles after $2,000 in spend within the first three months
- An additional 25,000 miles after you spend a total of $10,000 within the first six months
Card Details
- Valid until 1/9/20
- Annual fee of $95 waived first year
- Chase 5/24 rule applies to this card
- 25% off in flight purchases when using your card (including WiFi and food/beverages)
- $100 Global Entry/TSA PreCheck credit
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 2 miles per $1 spend with United Airlines, restaurant and hotel purchases
- 1 mile per $1 spend on all other purchases
- Last seat availability
- Miles don’t expire
- Free checked bag when you pay with card (for 2 people)
- Priority boarding
- 2 Club passes per year
- No FX fees
Our Verdict
We saw a similar deal earlier in the year for 60,000 points, but only required $8,000 instead of $10,000 spend. We also saw this same offer late last year. Most people won’t be eligible due to the 5/24 rule, but with the introduction of the Sapphire 48 rule I’m guessing more and more people are using a 5/24 slot on this card. If you can use United miles then this is as good as this offer gets and it makes sense to sign up. Because of that I will be adding this to our best credit card bonus post. If you have any questions about this card or Chase cards read this post first as your questions are most likely answered.
Unless I’m misreading their webpage the current offer is 60k miles with $3k spend. That seems much better than 65k miles with $10k spend.
The referral link I got only mentions the 40,000 miles bonus. Interestingly, the deadline I got was February 14,
Good. This offer is pretty bad. You could spend $10k on 2 SUBs and get twice as many miles and more passive perks on a great variety of cards. I’m hoping they will see a drop in usage and try to incentivize, although frankly if I was the airline I’d also favor a high spend and a crap bonus. The 75K/5K biz offer last year was pretty nice, wish I had jumped on it.
Any idea what the next SUB offer will be on this card?
Probably will go into another 3 months of no extra bonus, just the default 40k offer. Every public offer they’ve had for the past 2 years has been 40k or some pretty meh variant
“This product is available to you if you do not have this card and have not received a new Cardmember bonus for this card in the past 24 months.”
I got a 55k bonus for this card back in March of 2018
Then another 4k bonus for hitting $10k spend in July of 2018.
I downgraded to the no annual fee version in February of 2019 (which I’ll call and close soon)
So do I need to wait 2 years from the initial March 2018 55k bonus?
Or wait 2 years from the additional July 2018 4k bonus?
Extended to 1/22/20
https://www.theexplorercard.com/consumer-cards/explorer
I got a targeted offer of 40k +200 credit with 2k spending. to me 200 credit is better than 25k with 10k spending
where did you see that targeted offer?
Which offer is better:
United : $0 AF, 65k after $10,000 spend or
Alaska (targeted): $75 AF, 65k after $8,000 spend
Depends a lot on your main hub airport and flight needs. Do some sample reward searches from your hub airport and make a decision. In my case, both offers are good, although the min spend is on the high side.
Also depends on your 5/24 status
Does anyone know if eligibility is two years from the date you received the bonus or from the month? I last received the bonus on January 2, 2018, so presumably if I wait until the January 3, 2020, I will be eligible for the bonus, correct?
Yes, I would give it a few extra days just to be safe though.