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 25, 2011, 12:15 pm
#241
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 5
Early Boarding on LH & Others
Hi Folks -- I've searched for the answer to this question with no luck so here goes my first post. I just signed up for & received a MileagePlus Explorer card. One of the perks is early boarding.
Do you get early boarding when flying partners like LH? I'm guessing the answer is "no" but I'm hoping that folks with more experience than me would confirm or correct me.
Thanks!
JR
Do you get early boarding when flying partners like LH? I'm guessing the answer is "no" but I'm hoping that folks with more experience than me would confirm or correct me.
Thanks!
JR
Oct 25, 2011, 12:39 pm
#242
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: MileagePlus Premier Gold
Posts: 11,522
Hi Folks -- I've searched for the answer to this question with no luck so here goes my first post. I just signed up for & received a MileagePlus Explorer card. One of the perks is early boarding.
Do you get early boarding when flying partners like LH? I'm guessing the answer is "no" but I'm hoping that folks with more experience than me would confirm or correct me.
Thanks!
JR
Do you get early boarding when flying partners like LH? I'm guessing the answer is "no" but I'm hoping that folks with more experience than me would confirm or correct me.
Thanks!
JR
Oct 25, 2011, 12:42 pm
#243
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: HaMerkaz/Exit 145
Programs: UA, LY, BA, AA
Posts: 13,167
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Oct 25, 2011, 3:52 pm
#245
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: SF Bay Area
Programs: MileagePlus
Posts: 412
Just a note on priority boarding
Priority Boarding:
MileagePlus Explorer Card members will be granted boarding access to the plane after the boarding of Special Needs passengers, elites and those with Premier Access designations, but before General Boarding of the remaining passengers. Benefits apply to the primary cardmember on the credit card account and anyone traveling on the same reservation.
Premier Access designations = elite-level frequent flyers and premium-cabin customers
Zone 1 = Priority Boarding
General boarding = Zones 2 thru 4.
Priority Boarding:
MileagePlus Explorer Card members will be granted boarding access to the plane after the boarding of Special Needs passengers, elites and those with Premier Access designations, but before General Boarding of the remaining passengers. Benefits apply to the primary cardmember on the credit card account and anyone traveling on the same reservation.
Premier Access designations = elite-level frequent flyers and premium-cabin customers
Zone 1 = Priority Boarding
General boarding = Zones 2 thru 4.
Oct 25, 2011, 4:40 pm
#247
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: DEN, BOS, HKG, SYD, SFO
Programs: UA 1K, SPG Plat
Posts: 215
Here's hoping they have an EQM earning option for next year, like the Select or Club cards.
I was seriously bummed when due to an application screwup they sent me the regular signature card, and told me I couldn't upgrade until January '12 ... Which of course can't happen now.
Cheers,
Adam
I was seriously bummed when due to an application screwup they sent me the regular signature card, and told me I couldn't upgrade until January '12 ... Which of course can't happen now.
Cheers,
Adam
Oct 25, 2011, 4:58 pm
#248
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: JZRO
Posts: 9,169
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!"
Oct 26, 2011, 3:43 am
#250
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: HaMerkaz/Exit 145
Programs: UA, LY, BA, AA
Posts: 13,167
Here's hoping they have an EQM earning option for next year, like the Select or Club cards.
I was seriously bummed when due to an application screwup they sent me the regular signature card, and told me I couldn't upgrade until January '12 ... Which of course can't happen now.
Cheers,
Adam
I was seriously bummed when due to an application screwup they sent me the regular signature card, and told me I couldn't upgrade until January '12 ... Which of course can't happen now.
Cheers,
Adam
Which signature card did they send you? A regular signature card that's not a UA card?
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!"
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Oct 26, 2011, 4:26 am
#251
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: India
Programs: Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, IHG Plat, HH Gold, Trident Plat, DL Diamond, AI Maharajah
Posts: 29,677
Oct 26, 2011, 6:13 am
#252
Join Date: May 2000
Location: IAH
Programs: UA 1K 2.7MM, Marriott Titanium/LT Plat, IHG Spire
Posts: 3,317
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!"
Oct 26, 2011, 6:19 am
#253
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Aussie in ORD
Programs: Marriott Plat, Ua Gold, GE.. Sucker for punishment
Posts: 4,237
One thing I noticed, that was not particularly apparent in the advertisement, was that the free checked bag is only applicable if you used your card to pay for the flights... This will be a issue for statusless card holders who are traveling on business where the company travel agent direct bills...
Oct 26, 2011, 6:20 am
#254
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: HaMerkaz/Exit 145
Programs: UA, LY, BA, AA
Posts: 13,167
One thing I noticed, that was not particularly apparent in the advertisement, was that the free checked bag is only applicable if you used your card to pay for the flights... This will be a issue for statusless card holders who are traveling on business where the company travel agent direct bills...
