The Offer
- United is offering bonus miles under their Mile Play promotion when you complete certain requirements before July 31st, 2018. Everybody receives a different offer based on their flying history. Some sample offers:
- Spend $500 and earn 9,700 bonus miles, spend $1,000 total and earn 21,800 bonus miles
- Share your offers in the comments
The Fine Print
- Must register by July 17th, 2018
- Bonus will post to your MileagePlus account six to eight weeks after the promotion ends on July 31, 2018. Qualifying spend 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.
Our Verdict
This is basically the same promotion they have had before, previously called ‘Miles Play’. In fact one of those promotions is still running until the 05/13, I suspect if you are targeted for that promotion you won’t be targeted for this promotion, but if you are then flights before 5/13 should effectively count for both. If anybody gets that to happen, let us know in the comments below. Also share any offers you received.
Hat tip to Angelina Travels
For the “spend” promo, does anyone know if it’s spend $500* on the MileagePlus member only? Or can you complete the promo with a $500 spend way on two tickets in the same confirmation purchased by the member? It is not clear in the T&C of the Mile Pay promo.
Did anyone finish goal 2 and see the hidden offer?
If I book flight using Chase UR rather than cash, do I qualify the bonus mile?
was targeted for the other, no offer for this one
Not eligible
Guess they pretty much don’t want my kind.
$250 on qualifying flights earns 4900 miles, $750 (total, so presumably another $500?) on flights earns a total of 17000 miles (so another 12100, on top of the first tranche). Flights must be completed by July 31st.
Spend $250*
Earn 4,900 bonus miles
Spend $750* total
Earn a total of 17,000 bonus miles
I got this same offer. I wonder what the third Reward is. I completed goal 1, and a 3rd goal appeared and it won’t be revealed until I finish goal 2.
“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 airlines or a United MileagePlus® partner airline with tickets issued by United (ticket number starting with “016“) will not qualify for this offer.”
anyone know (or have a guess) how this works on a mixed itinerary? e.g. one segment UA, another segment AC?
Check the receipt or “what you will earn for this trip” link and look at the PQD for the UA operated segments…that’s where I would start. Only the fees that go towards the UA segment(s) will count, according to this
do you know a quick way of finding this without purchasing a flight? I can only find PQD for the entire itinerary, not just the UA segment
Not targeted, womp womp