Aug 8, 2014, 4:50 pm
Last edit by: WineCountryUA
8/8/14 Here's the "fine print" regarding those who have received a bonus from this product in the past:
I understand that any new cardmember bonus offers for this product are not available to either current or previous cardmembers of this product who received a new cardmember bonus for this product in the last 24 months.
I understand that the terms of my account, including the APRs, are subject to change. Any such changes will be made in accordance with the Cardmember Agreement.
If you received the bonus >24 months ago you are eligible to apply. Doesn't matter when you closed the card.
Major Benefits (post-June 2018)
Cuts as of June 2018Purchase Price Protection - removed
Return Protection - removed
Trip Cancellation/Trip Interruption Insurance - reduced
10,000 bonus miles for $25K spend will no longer be available after May 31, 2018.Those who spend $10,000-$24,999 by May 31 will receive 4,000 bonus miles this year only.
New benefits2 miles per $1 spent at restaurants and hotels
25% statement credit "rebate" on purchases of food, beverages, and wifi on United-operated flights
Global Entry / Pre-application statement credit rebate up to $100 once every four years.
I understand that any new cardmember bonus offers for this product are not available to either current or previous cardmembers of this product who received a new cardmember bonus for this product in the last 24 months.
I understand that the terms of my account, including the APRs, are subject to change. Any such changes will be made in accordance with the Cardmember Agreement.
If you received the bonus >24 months ago you are eligible to apply. Doesn't matter when you closed the card.
Major Benefits (post-June 2018)
- Free first checked a bag - The primary Cardmember and one companion traveling on the same reservation will each receive their first standard checked bag free on United-operated flights when the primary Cardmember includes their MileagePlus number in their reservation and purchases their tickets from United with their United MileagePlus Explorer Card. For complete details, please visit united.com/chasebag .
- Priority boarding - Primary Cardmembers and their companions on the same reservation will be invited to board United-operated flights prior to general boarding. (BG2)
- No fees on foreign transactions
- 2 United ClubSM passes each year for your travel
- Access to XN expanded Economy Saver award inventory (not a published benefit)
- Chip-enabled Card provides added security
- Earn 2 miles per $1 spent on tickets purchased from United.
- Earn 2 miles per $1 spent at restaurants and hotels (NEW)
- Earn 1 mile per $1 spent - You'll earn 1 mile for each $1 spent on all other purchases.
Miles don't expire as long as your credit card account remains open - Your miles don't expire as long as you are a Cardmember, with no limit to the number of miles you can earn.UA miles not longer expire- Any seat, any time, on United-operated flights - Primary Cardmembers can use their miles to book any available seat, any time, on United-operated flights when they redeem
- CPU award ticket eligibility for primary cardholder (only) if MP elite
- Carryon bag allowed with Boarding Group 2 even if Basic Economy ticket
- 25% statement credit "rebate" on purchases of food, beverages, and wifi on United-operated flights (NEW)
- Global Entry / Pre-application statement credit rebate up to $100 once every four years. (NEW)
Cuts as of June 2018Purchase Price Protection - removed
Return Protection - removed
Trip Cancellation/Trip Interruption Insurance - reduced
10,000 bonus miles for $25K spend will no longer be available after May 31, 2018.Those who spend $10,000-$24,999 by May 31 will receive 4,000 bonus miles this year only.
New benefits2 miles per $1 spent at restaurants and hotels
25% statement credit "rebate" on purchases of food, beverages, and wifi on United-operated flights
Global Entry / Pre-application statement credit rebate up to $100 once every four years.
Chase MP Explorer Card (Q&A, Benefits, Bonuses, Discussion, ....)
Oct 26, 2011, 2:44 pm
#256
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: HYD/CHI
Posts: 793
Oct 26, 2011, 3:09 pm
#257
Join Date: May 2010
Location: WAS
Programs: Lotz
Posts: 1,534
Biz Card Churn?
I know that people who got the CO OnePassPlus card after 7/19 will be ineligible for the new signup bonus from the Explorer. But what about the business card? I assume that CO business cards will be converted to UA business cards but is there also a deadline after which new bonus's for the UA biz card will not be honored?
Nov 2, 2011, 3:54 pm
#258
Join Date: Mar 2011
Programs: Delta Gold, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold, IHG Plat, AMEX Plat
Posts: 220
How Long for United Club Passes to Show Up?
I signed up for the new Chase card - received card in August, and the 50K bonus miles in late September, but no sign of the two United Club one-time passes. Any one know how long they take to show up?
Nov 2, 2011, 4:00 pm
#259
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: MileagePlus Premier Gold
Posts: 11,522
Two United Club Passes:
Please allow 2 – 4 weeks from your credit card account anniversary date each year for delivery. To qualify for this bonus offer, your credit card account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment.
This means you're little better off than the first-in-line of the Kettles, who will be hot on your heels as you hurry down the jetway, glancing back nervously at the onrushing hoard. That prickly feeling on the back of your neck will command your quaking legs to make haste; the welcoming sight of the airplane's open door cannot come into view fast enough! There's one last bend in that seemingly interminable jetway! Around it you fly! There it is! The open door! You're home free!
But no. There too is the throng of Premiers before you; they are boarding slowly. Agonizingly slowly, as they seek out and consume every last cubic manometer of overhead bin space. You skid to a stop behind them, your heart beating, your palms sweating. You look back, fear etched upon your perspiring face. They're coming! Ma and Pa Kettle and their 40 kin, come clomping and cavorting and cajoling down the jetway. Closer and closer they come. In a moment, before you know it, they consume you. You are suddenly lost in a swath of suburban banality. You feel your legs fail, your spirit falter, your mind numb. Your last thought is a horrible, aching one: "I hate you, Explorer Card!"
But no. There too is the throng of Premiers before you; they are boarding slowly. Agonizingly slowly, as they seek out and consume every last cubic manometer of overhead bin space. You skid to a stop behind them, your heart beating, your palms sweating. You look back, fear etched upon your perspiring face. They're coming! Ma and Pa Kettle and their 40 kin, come clomping and cavorting and cajoling down the jetway. Closer and closer they come. In a moment, before you know it, they consume you. You are suddenly lost in a swath of suburban banality. You feel your legs fail, your spirit falter, your mind numb. Your last thought is a horrible, aching one: "I hate you, Explorer Card!"
But even though priority boarding is after elites, you're still boarding earlier than more than half the plane.
Last edited by iluv2fly; Nov 2, 2011 at 4:25 pm Reason: merge
Nov 2, 2011, 4:03 pm
#260
Join Date: Mar 2011
Programs: Delta Gold, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold, IHG Plat, AMEX Plat
Posts: 220
From the T&Cs (bolding mine):
Two United Club Passes:
Please allow 2 – 4 weeks from your credit card account anniversary date each year for delivery. To qualify for this bonus offer, your credit card account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment.
Two United Club Passes:
Please allow 2 – 4 weeks from your credit card account anniversary date each year for delivery. To qualify for this bonus offer, your credit card account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment.
Nov 2, 2011, 4:04 pm
#261
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: MileagePlus Premier Gold
Posts: 11,522
Nov 2, 2011, 4:26 pm
#262
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: JZRO
Posts: 9,169
Thank you.
So are gate lice Kettles.
RNE, concluding, "The Explorer card's boarding benefit is phantasmagorical, a cruel hoax Jeff and Jaimie are LTAO over."
RNE, concluding, "The Explorer card's boarding benefit is phantasmagorical, a cruel hoax Jeff and Jaimie are LTAO over."
Nov 3, 2011, 12:08 pm
#264
Join Date: May 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: UA-Gold AA-Gold, Marriott Lifetime Tit. Elite
Posts: 299
imo, MP Signature is $95, you get 3miles/$ on UA tickets is better, "miles won't expire" b/c you buy one thing of the card and 18mos is extended.
The 10k miles is nice. Though if going towards elite status, you get 5k EQMs for the Sig. card.
The 10k miles is nice. Though if going towards elite status, you get 5k EQMs for the Sig. card.
Nov 7, 2011, 8:35 am
#265
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 10
I already have a continental cc card. Can I still open up a united mileageplus account and sign up for the united mileageplus explorer card and earn the miles from the united cc card and then combine both my mileage accounts early next year? i know that eventually my continental card will be rebranded to united so i will likely cancel that one early next year (which will be near the time of renewal thus saving me the yearly $85 fee).
Nov 7, 2011, 3:57 pm
#268
Join Date: Apr 2011
Programs: UA Gold, AA Gold, Hyatt Plat, SPG Gold, Marriott Plat, Hilton Gold, Hertz Pres Circle, etc etc
Posts: 382
I already have a continental cc card. Can I still open up a united mileageplus account and sign up for the united mileageplus explorer card and earn the miles from the united cc card and then combine both my mileage accounts early next year? i know that eventually my continental card will be rebranded to united so i will likely cancel that one early next year (which will be near the time of renewal thus saving me the yearly $85 fee).
If you wait till the CO card converts to a United Explorer then I assume you will be out of luck in getting a bonus for a new (second) United Explorer card.
Nov 12, 2011, 8:16 am
#269
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: New York
Programs: CO, Delta, British Airways, Jetblue
Posts: 39
I have the MP United Signature Card that is coming up for renewal this month. I also have the CO Onepass Plus Card that will expire early next year. I was going to cancel the United card when it came up for renewal, but then realized that I get the 5,000 mile annual bonus and started to reconsider.
I was thinking of keeping one of the cards for at least another year, not sure which is better though. I imagine my CO card will get converted to the Explorer card, which I'm not sure I want or need to happen.
I'm not a "Frequent Flyer" and don't have status - but do fly a bunch of times a year and I'm thinking the 5,000 miles plus not having to pay the baggage fees would make the MP United Visa Signature the best option for me.
Any thoughts?
I was thinking of keeping one of the cards for at least another year, not sure which is better though. I imagine my CO card will get converted to the Explorer card, which I'm not sure I want or need to happen.
I'm not a "Frequent Flyer" and don't have status - but do fly a bunch of times a year and I'm thinking the 5,000 miles plus not having to pay the baggage fees would make the MP United Visa Signature the best option for me.
Any thoughts?
Nov 12, 2011, 10:36 am
#270
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: NYC
Programs: AA EXP, UA Platinum, Alaksa MVP 75K, Air Berlin Gold, HHonors Diamond, Marriott Gold, Hertz PC
Posts: 2,389
I have the MP United Signature Card that is coming up for renewal this month. I also have the CO Onepass Plus Card that will expire early next year. I was going to cancel the United card when it came up for renewal, but then realized that I get the 5,000 mile annual bonus and started to reconsider.
I was thinking of keeping one of the cards for at least another year, not sure which is better though. I imagine my CO card will get converted to the Explorer card, which I'm not sure I want or need to happen.
I'm not a "Frequent Flyer" and don't have status - but do fly a bunch of times a year and I'm thinking the 5,000 miles plus not having to pay the baggage fees would make the MP United Visa Signature the best option for me.
Any thoughts?
I was thinking of keeping one of the cards for at least another year, not sure which is better though. I imagine my CO card will get converted to the Explorer card, which I'm not sure I want or need to happen.
I'm not a "Frequent Flyer" and don't have status - but do fly a bunch of times a year and I'm thinking the 5,000 miles plus not having to pay the baggage fees would make the MP United Visa Signature the best option for me.
Any thoughts?