MileagePlus Shopping is the name of the online shopping portal that will net you miles for purchases you make at your favorite online stores. Just log in, look for the store you want to shop at and then click on the link to that merchant. Almost all of us eat out at restaurants from time to time. Sign up now and miles earned in this way will reset the expiration date on your account. Find Cheapest Flights from United States. Renting cars from certain agencies will net you MileagePlus miles.
Look for deals from Dollar, Hertz and Thrifty. When I called for my grandparents they found multiple old accounts which I had United merge into a single account for each of them. They probably signed up on several flights for the miles but never followed up. It is definitely worth calling to see if they can find multiple accounts before those miles are all erased.
You can transfer points to United at a ratio from Chase Ultimate Rewards. You can get a free magazine subscription starting at just miles. This will extend the life of your entire account balance for 18 months.
In Baltimore you can get the Sun for miles. In Chicago you can get the Tribune starting at miles. In Atlanta you can get the Journal-Constitution for 1, miles. In NJ you can get the Star-Ledger from 1, miles. You can donate miles to a charity. SPG Golds must transfer at least 1, points at a time and non-elites have to transfer at least 2, points at a time.
You can credit miles from a past car rental or hotel stay to United. Just contact the car rental agency or hotel and give them your mileage number. Even when miles have already expired they can be retroactively unexpired by crediting a past rental or stay.
And finally, you can always redeem miles for a ticket. Award tickets start at 5, miles E. You have to logout and log back into your account to see your new expiration. United does give you 24 hours to cancel award tickets and you can click to cancel the ticket and then click thorugh a few screens to immediately redeposit the miles and receive a refund of the miles and taxes paid.
Even once you cancel an award ticket you maintain the extended expiration for your entire account. Book domestic travel for 7.
Travel to Israel for 32K miles in coach or 47K miles in business class! Learn more about this card and its' awesome new benefits in Dan's review here. Beware of trying to extend United miles by booking an award and cancelling within 24 hours. I did it a few months ago, and whild initially the miles showed up as extended for another 18 months, a few weeks later they suddenly expired.
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This morning, the combined airlines announced some details of the merged airline miles programs.
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