The Offer
- Receive bonus United miles when you complete spending requirements. Everybody has a different offer (or isn’t targeted at all). Spend must be completed by November 15th, 2017 Some sample offers:
- Spend $1,000 & get 18,000 bonus miles
- Spend $1,100 & get 5,000 miles
- Spend $500 and get 8,000 miles
- Spend $500 and get 5,000 miles, spend a total of $800 and get 8,000 more miles.
- Spend $11.5K for 56K miles, Spend total $14.5K for additional 98K miles
- Account not eligible
- Some readers seem to be confused, this is for spending with United and not on any co-branded credit card.
The Fine Print
- Unsure please share in the comments
Our Verdict
United seems to have set the first requirement at slightly above what you’d normally spend during that period, that’s why the offers are so different on each account. It’s probably worth seeing if you’re targeted and enrolling even if you have no plans on actually hitting your requirements. They also offered something similar last year as well.
Hat tip to lenin1991 on /r/churning
does booking through upside.com will qualify for this offer?
My offer – register now to earn 74,500 bonus award miles
Spend 1,000 Earn 18,500 bonus award miles
Spend a total of 2,900 Earn 56,000 more bonus award miles
Can I book for other people to get this bonus?
I got the following:
$800 for 8,000 Miles
$1000 for 10,000 Miles
My offer:
At $500 -> 9500 RDM
At $1000 -> Another 16500 RDM (total 26000 RDM)
For anyone that has done this before and have had a reservation before registering for this promo and registered afterwards, did you still receive your miles?
For this promotion, only dollars spent on the “fare” on eligible flights operated by United® and United Express® will qualify toward meeting spending milestones. Certain specialty tickets, including but not limited to unpublished, consolidator/bulk, group, tour and opaque fares, will not be counted towards spending milestones. Dollars spent on tickets purchased for flights operated by Star Alliance™ member airline or a United MileagePlus® partner airline with tickets issued by United (ticket number starting with “016”) will not qualify for this offer. The “fare” is the base fare of the ticket plus carrier-imposed surcharges, excluding any government-imposed taxes and surcharges. For tickets purchased in a currency other than U.S. dollars, we will convert the purchase to U.S. dollars using an industry standard exchange rate and then calculate the number of miles you will earn. Please note that the price displayed when purchasing a ticket on united.com includes up to a 7.5% U.S. Federal Transportation Tax on the base amount of the fare on itineraries wholly within the United States. This tax also applies to certain itineraries between the United States and Canada or Mexico. You will not earn Premier® qualifying dollars (PQD) or award miles for the full amount of the displayed price for these itineraries because the U.S. Federal Transportation tax is not eligible to earn PQD or miles. For this promotion, rewards will be awarded for each spending threshold that has been met, subject to the terms and conditions. Threshold bonuses may be earned only once. Partial bonuses will not be awarded for members who don’t reach a certain threshold. All calculations made in connection with this offer will be made by MileagePlus in its discretion and considered final. Only original recipients of this email invitation can register and participate in this promotion. Registration is required by November 1, 2017. Only tickets purchased and ticketed after registration and within the ticketing dates will qualify. Ticketing dates: September 14, 2017 through November 15, 2017. Offer is valid for travel beginning on or after September 14, 2017, and completed on or before November 15, 2017. Tickets purchased in Basic Economy (N fare class) are not eligible for this promotion. Offer is not valid on government fares. Qualifying flight activity must be posted to the member’s MileagePlus account in order to qualify for this offer. Flights on award travel tickets and other tickets that do not earn Premier qualifying credits do not qualify for meeting the requirements of this offer. This offer is not combinable with other non-combinable offers. Bonus will post to your MileagePlus account six to eight weeks after the promotion end on November 15, 2017. Bonus will be calculated using the originally ticketed fare and/or fare classes and Economy Plus® purchases, as applicable, and subsequent changes to any fare and/or fare classes as a result of itinerary changes, complimentary or paid upgrade, purchase of travel products (including but not limited to United ClubSM, Premier Access®, Award Accelerator®, Premier AcceleratorSM), irregular operations or otherwise will not be considered. Bonus award… Read more »
My S/O received this: Fly your way to
13,000
bonus award miles
Spend
500
Arrow down
Earn
5,000
bonus award miles
Spend a total of
800
Arrow down
Earn
8,000
more bonus award miles
My question is: we have a 1st Class flight coming up (SEA-PHL 1st Class) in 2 wks. The res is with my card. Will the miles still be credited?
And must be on United metal. And no basic economy
FYI T&C say spend is on fare excluding of taxes and fees