Originally Posted by uanj

You need not worry, you are in good company. My most memorable million mile threshold was 5, I got almost nothing. I was given a half a greeting card with a printed message and printed signature from Oscar. My name was not on it, 5 million itself was not printed, it was on a gold star kind of sticker they had put on the card, I did not have the heart to pull it off and see what it said underneath. These cards must be very expensive to produce so multi-purposing them saves money, I guess.

The FA who gave it to me was, to say the least, poorly briefed. He congratulated me on achieving 1 million miles before I die, so I think, or I hope and project, he was joking. I said it is actually 5 million and he said "Oh that's a good one! Nobody flies United THAT much!" Nothing from the flight crew, no business card or short congratulations delivered in person.

And I have yet to see a single one of these coins I hear people get.