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Old Sep 24, 2023 | 11:20 am
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Originally Posted by snardy
Hi there,

Tried to look for this topic but didn’t find it.

United app allows you to pay for airfare via PayPal.

On PayPal, you can split a payment between multiple credit cards.

If I pay for half the airfare with my United Explorer Card and other half of airfare with Chase Sapphire Reserve, will i trigger the travel benefits of both cards? For example, I want the free checked bag and priority boarding provided by United Explorer, but CSR has superior travel + baggage delay benefits and 3x points for travel.

I looked for fine print but didn’t see anything requiring entire payment on your United Explorer to get the free bag benefit:
https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/tra...rdmembers.html

Any first hand experience from the FT community?
You won't receive the explorer card baggage benefits as it won't show as the form-of-payment in UA's system, it will show as being paid via PayPal.
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