pcmike: If you have a Sapphire Preferred account, I would just transfer some Ultimate Rewards points over to your Mileage Plus account, and then you will have some miles in your MP account, and will hopefully be able to see the better sign-up bonus. If you do not already have a MP account, you will need to create one first and then initiate the xfer from Ultimate Rewards to Mileage Plus. Let us know how it goes.