Mileage Run Deals - (Targeted) UA "Explore The World" Run: DEN-AMA $80 a/i RT (.96 cents/AWARD mile)

Try to register at www.unitedmapyourdreams.com. See the promo discussion thread here (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-mileageplus-consolidated/1340214-promo-explore-world-united-earn-up-25-000-bonus-award-miles.html).

This is a targeted promo offering bonus RDMs based on the number of roundtrips booked and flown from 4/15/12 to 7/15/12. I'm not eligible (probably because I "won" Months of Miles ;)).

Individual offers may vary, but the "main" one seems to be:

1 RT: 5K RDM
2 RT: 10K RDM
4 RT: 25K RDM

Four DEN-AMA runs cost $320. You'll get 4K EQM (after 500-mile minimums), 8 segments, and 33K RDM for 1Ks (500-mile minimum per segment plus 100% elite bonus = 8K RDM plus 25K promo bonus = 33K RDM).

Same-day $80 turns available on 6/1.

One-night $80 turns available on 5/27, 5/31. (Use same-day change to switch to same-day turn.)

Many $100 same-day turns are available through July, which would increase the cost to $400 for 33K RDM (still a fantastic deal).

I received the following offer:

2 RT/5K RDM
3 RT/10K RDM
5 RT/25K RDM

Trying to figure out the best way to get these miles ex-LAX-area.

Thanks for posting BryanIAH ^

Creative approach (as always it seems with you). Unfortunately the EQM payoff is not high enough for the amount of time I'd have to devote to get the miles.

I'm still trying to search more cities. IAH has a few possibilities (to be posted shortly) then I'll move to the coasts.

I'm still trying to search more cities. IAH has a few possibilities (to be posted shortly) then I'll move to the coasts.

Best I can find out of SFO is SFO-MOD-SFO at $140 followed by SFO-LAX-SFO at $149.

Best I can find out of LAX is LAX-LAS-LAX at $94.

Edit to add: also, if you sign up for the TravelBank/united.com club at $25 for a year, but get back $5 per ticket booked, it can pretty quickly pay for itself.

Best I can find out of SFO is SFO-MOD-SFO at $140 followed by SFO-LAX-SFO at $149.

Best I can find out of LAX is LAX-LAS-LAX at $94.

Edit to add: also, if you sign up for the TravelBank/united.com club at $25 for a year, but get back $5 per ticket booked, it can pretty quickly pay for itself.

Thanks for the reminder about the TravelBank. I have not been a member since 2007-2008 but it might be time to renew given this 25K promo going on...

Thanks Brian. Appreciate the creativity! ^

Offer I got was not nearly as good.

Earn 5,000 bonus award miles for 3 roundtrips, 10,000 bonus award miles for 4 roundtrips and a maximum of 25,000 bonus award miles for 6 roundtrips. Just purchase and fly on United before July 15, 2012, to any of the more than 370 destinations we serve.

This would be perfect, if UA gave me a reasonable offer, 7/8/9 doesn't make me want to fly any more in the next two and a half months, 1/2/4 or thereabouts would.

This would be perfect, if UA gave me a reasonable offer, 7/8/9 doesn't make me want to fly any more in the next two and a half months, 1/2/4 or thereabouts would.

I don't know why they have a 7/8/9 offer. That just seems insulting.

must be targeted, i tried to register and was told I was not eligible for this offer.

More details on Travelbank?

More details on Travelbank?

http://www.united.com/web/en-US/apps/products/travelclub/Default.aspx

This would be perfect, if UA gave me a reasonable offer, 7/8/9 doesn't make me want to fly any more in the next two and a half months, 1/2/4 or thereabouts would.

I don't know why they have a 7/8/9 offer. That just seems insulting.

No kidding. Fly 9 round trips for a 25K bonus? :td::td:

NM. Found my own answer.

must be targeted, i tried to register and was told I was not eligible for this offer.

I never recieved an email invite but just clicked on link and it registered me for the 4 trip , 25000 mile bonus

Guess there is an advantage to not flying much this year. This Million Miler got the 1 = 5K, 2 = 10K, 4 = 25K offer.

Tried enrolling my wife who is Gold "by marriage", and she was not eligible.

Thanks OP for the head's up.

I don't know why they have a 7/8/9 offer. That just seems insulting.

I got the same 7/8/9 offer! Insulting - maybe. Worthwhile - definitely not!

Four DEN-AMA runs cost $320. You'll get 4K EQM (after 500-mile minimums), 8 segments, and 33K RDM for 1Ks (500-mile minimum per segment plus 100% elite bonus = 8K RDM plus 25K promo bonus = 33K RDM).

Same-day $80 turns available on 6/1.

One-night $80 turns available on 5/27, 5/31. (Use same-day change to switch to same-day turn.)

Many $100 same-day turns are available through July, which would increase the cost to $400 for 33K RDM (still a fantastic deal).

Even for non-Premier it's a great deal. DEN-AMA is 718 miles RT. To get 25k @ $100 each RT:
4 = 27,872 miles @ 1.43 cpm
5 = 28,590/1.75 cpm
6 = 29,308/2.05
7 = 30,026/2.33
8 = 30,744/2.6
9 = 31,462/2.86
I haven't heard of any 10 RT/25k offers...

Lowest out of SEA is $162 SEA-PDX. However, SEA-SFO is around $170, SEA-Greater LA a little over $200, and SEA-DEN $216-230. (Hmm, set up a SEA-DEN weekend with a DEN-AMA run or two...)

I'm considering a west coast segments-based status run. If you time it right you can get an affordable same-day turn with 5+ segments RT, sometimes 6+. It wasn't worth it just for status, but with +25k miles added...

not eligible :(

has anyone asked United why and had that changed ?

Guess there is an advantage to not flying much this year. This Million Miler got the 1 = 5K, 2 = 10K, 4 = 25K offer.

Tried enrolling my wife who is Gold "by marriage", and she was not eligible.

Thanks OP for the head's up.

Same thing, but my wife is also silver elite but did not get the offer... Thanks, UAL for splitting up the family... :td:

I am a 1K based in DEN and have flown about 47K miles this year. I got this email a few days back and received the 4RT=25K miles promo.

My girlfriend who is a Silver has not received any targeted emails yet. I was looking forward to flying with her on a few bonus trips...

i got a rock and i never fly them, either.

Not eligible :( They must know I took AAdvantage of that status match to AA :D

I fly United very rarely- it used to be 2-3x/year and I probably haven't flown them since last summer... I got the 1/2/4 offer...

Is this fare still available? Cheapest I'm seeing for same day turns is $99.60 a/i RT.

I got the 1-2-4, and I'm a 1K ...
... Although my flying is down this year as compared to last year... (Thanks to Post Merger fare doubling)

not eligible :(

has anyone asked United why and had that changed ?


I'm also not eligible. (I'm P-Gold, with 13 segments so far in 2012.)

I have a very productive dialog going with a Customer Care rep at UA. She replied to my last email within 12 hours, in a way that I found to be both professional and humorous, so I went ahead and added this promo story to the reply I just sent 5 minutes ago. I'll post if I learn anything new.

I have a 6/7/8 offer, but by their definition I only have 2 RT's during that time period. Doesn't seem worth it out of PHL.

Thanks for posting these. I'm going to have to see if I can do better than the $120-ish IAD-JFK someone posted, as I got the 1/2/4 deal (and no, my travel is up compared to this point last year--I seriously think UA applies some kind of randomness to these targeted offers). I had 2 trips already booked in the promo period (boo!) and have subsequently booked 2 more, so I need to now find 2 cheapo MRs to max out the miles earned.

Got a 4/5/7 (too high, IMO) and already have travel booked every other week during this period. I don't know if I want to deal with trying to squeeze in even more travels. We'll see.

1/2/4 here, I probably banked 4,000 miles on UA last year, by accident :P Not that I don't like you guys, but I kept status with AC :P I have a couple of trips planned within this time period already but I'll be adding on a couple of cheap trips to make the 4.

If I change an existing flight on the day of the flight, (i am still Silver, so it will cost me $75) will it count as a flight for the Promo?

If I change an existing flight on the day of the flight, (i am still Silver, so it will cost me $75) will it count as a flight for the Promo?

Most likely no, as that will not require reticketing, just reissuing.

i got 2/3/5, what are the best options out of WAS?

Guess there is an advantage to not flying much this year. This Million Miler got the 1 = 5K, 2 = 10K, 4 = 25K offer.

Tried enrolling my wife who is Gold "by marriage", and she was not eligible.

Thanks OP for the head's up.
I got that deal with Gold status. I also successfully enrolled my wife who is a real Silver, and nothing "by marriage." Odd.
The deal would be a lot better if it were PQM and not RDM. A lot of short SFO-LAS trips are coming up. They're usually not worth paying for, but with 25k RDM's, it's debatable. If it were 25k PQM's, it would be a no-brainer.

Try to register at www.unitedmapyourdreams.com. See the promo discussion thread here (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-mileageplus-consolidated/1340214-promo-explore-world-united-earn-up-25-000-bonus-award-miles.html).

This is a targeted promo offering bonus RDMs based on the number of roundtrips booked and flown from 4/15/12 to 7/15/12. I'm not eligible (probably because I "won" Months of Miles ;)).

Individual offers may vary, but the "main" one seems to be:

1 RT: 5K RDM
2 RT: 10K RDM
4 RT: 25K RDM

Four DEN-AMA runs cost $320. You'll get 4K EQM (after 500-mile minimums), 8 segments, and 33K RDM for 1Ks (500-mile minimum per segment plus 100% elite bonus = 8K RDM plus 25K promo bonus = 33K RDM).

Same-day $80 turns available on 6/1.

One-night $80 turns available on 5/27, 5/31. (Use same-day change to switch to same-day turn.)

Many $100 same-day turns are available through July, which would increase the cost to $400 for 33K RDM (still a fantastic deal).



I got the following message when I enters my united number

According to our records, you are not eligible to participate in this promotion.

If you feel you've received this message in error, please contact a MileagePlus® customer service representative.

This feel like it should be a great deal for me, since I got the 1/2/4 offer, and as a not-very-frequent-flyer who's nowhere close to getting status I care more about the RDM than PQM. But I can't really make the math work out right to convince myself to fly some flights just for the miles.

Out of WAS, the cheapest flight I can find is IAD-JFK for $120. That's 456 miles flown, 5000 bonus miles, and, for me, 240 bonus miles if I use my Chase UA card for the purchase. That comes out to 2.1 CPM. But since my main goal with my RDMs is international economy awards, that doesn't seem like a no-brainer CPM rate, since so far I'm getting roughly the same CPM in value for my award bookings.

Should I be trying to think of it as it being close to breaking even, in terms of CPM spent vs expected value for my awards, that it's like getting an almost-free flight to New York (or whatever other destination works out reasonably well)? Or is it just not a good enough deal for my miles usage? Or am I just not in the proper FT MR mindset yet, and need to read more trip reports about luxurious trips in F? :)

I think I got the worst offer of anyone... perhaps since I already have 35,000 EQMs this year?

Kevin, earn 5,000 bonus award miles for 8 roundtrips, 10,000 bonus award miles for 9 roundtrips and a maximum of 25,000 bonus award miles for 10 roundtrips.

That's odd...not sure how they're targeting these offers, but I've flown 81,000 PQM since January and got the 1/2/4...

I think I got the worst offer of anyone... perhaps since I already have 35,000 EQMs this year?

Kevin, earn 5,000 bonus award miles for 8 roundtrips, 10,000 bonus award miles for 9 roundtrips and a maximum of 25,000 bonus award miles for 10 roundtrips.

Try to register at www.unitedmapyourdreams.com. See the promo discussion thread here (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-mileageplus-consolidated/1340214-promo-explore-world-united-earn-up-25-000-bonus-award-miles.html).

This is a targeted promo offering bonus RDMs based on the number of roundtrips booked and flown from 4/15/12 to 7/15/12. I'm not eligible (probably because I "won" Months of Miles ;)).

Individual offers may vary, but the "main" one seems to be:

1 RT: 5K RDM
2 RT: 10K RDM
4 RT: 25K RDM

Four DEN-AMA runs cost $320. You'll get 4K EQM (after 500-mile minimums), 8 segments, and 33K RDM for 1Ks (500-mile minimum per segment plus 100% elite bonus = 8K RDM plus 25K promo bonus = 33K RDM).

Same-day $80 turns available on 6/1.

One-night $80 turns available on 5/27, 5/31. (Use same-day change to switch to same-day turn.)

Many $100 same-day turns are available through July, which would increase the cost to $400 for 33K RDM (still a fantastic deal).



I got the following message when I enters my united number

According to our records, you are not eligible to participate in this promotion.

If you feel you've received this message in error, please contact a MileagePlus® customer service representative.

Same - 2P, 4 segments for ~10K miles so far this year. :td:

I got the following message when I enters my united number
According to our records, you are not eligible to participate in this promotion.
If you feel you've received this message in error, please contact a MileagePlus® customer service representative.

I got that message too, has anyone contacted Mileage plus and had it changed ?

Soarer

Does anybody know if there is a way to track

1. If you are enrolled in the promo at all? I received the offer via email (7/8/9, as a Plat with 40 segments thus far in 2012), enrolled, but see no mention of it on my UA.com page.

2. How far along you are in the promo - i.e., how many RTs you have completed that meet the req's thus far?

Looks fairly opaque to me...would appreciate any insights, if there are any :rolleyes:

Thanks!

Huh, I tried it again and this time it worked. I may have put my old MP# in the first time instead of my new one though :o

CMK10, earn 5,000 bonus award miles for 1 roundtrip, 10,000 bonus award miles for 2 roundtrips and a maximum of 25,000 bonus award miles for 4 roundtrips.

1/2/4 offer. Haven't flown with United in slightly over a year. Any cheap UA flights out of NYC?

Best RT flights were from JFK to IAD for 130, same day.

any other low cost flights from LAX. I see LAS at $130 and SFO at $170 not much out there for 1 day turns in the next month, do you know of any. Thanks and Safe Travels

The e-fares would be handy for this promo

Has anybody done a quick-turn DEN-AMA-DEN?

Just wondering how the 30 minute layover in AMA works out. It's unclear to me if it's the same plane (the schedule seems like it would allow them to cycle between DEN and IAH).