Originally Posted by
Jlstark35
I was trying to reach 1 million miles this year but since my international travel has been restricted, I guess it will be another year. In the meantime, could someone tell me what the lifetime miles is based on. Is it the Base Award Miles, or the physical distance between say EWR and LHR?
Go to:
https://mystatus.united.com/
Your lifetime BIS miles will be the number in the red box below:
Don't use any of the data that UA now provides under your activity page - all of those numbers are simply them trying to get you to pay more.
If you want to know how many BIS miles that UA will give you for any given leg, probably easiest to search on the timetable page (
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/app...e/default.aspx) to search and pull the specific number of BIS miles - this is EWR-LHR for instance:
Good luck on your quest for MM status!
David