TrojanHorse

I inadvertently let some miles expire in my son's account, not a huge number but for $50 IMHO its worth reinstating those miles

my question is, from the day that they are reinstated, does he receive a new 18 month clock start from the date of posting?

weirdlyndon

Most likely, although the new mileage expiration date listed under My Account would be your definitive answer after the reinstatment.

br2k

This may be a bit of a hindsight, but I'll ask anyway.

I've just discovered a dormant UA (legacy UA) mileage plus account with about 30K miles in it, which expired last year.

I quickly paid to reinstate them (charge is in process on CC, though miles did not show up back on account yet - btw, does anyone know how long it takes?) and plan to merge that account with my primary MP account once miles are posted.

Then it occurred to me that I was an active MP member (and held a United credit card) during the lifetime of the other account. Should that have been sufficient to reinstate the miles (without having to pay $100)?

WineCountryUA

The credit card only protects the account it is linked to and if no longer linked it looses that protection.

I probably would have tried MPSC first for a freebie but too late for that now.

Flying Machine

What's the Current Best Way to extend my Sons Account (he is 17) once read to buy some music somewhere through UA (like 1 song) but IIRC you need to be 18.. Any other thoughts. Just read the 500 mile donation (that may work) Thanks in advance and Safe Travels..

TrojanHorse

I do realize that but I was seeing what the answer might be up front.

As I understand this, I have 18 months to do this from the time they expired correct?

Since they expired four months ago, I'm in no hurry to pay up and extend until either 1. I need the miles or 2. the 18 month window approaches in order to give myself the most bang for the buck relating to extending the life of the miles.. is there a down side to this?

finally, does the gift card transfer still exist as an option to extend accounts? - never mind, I just saw where it works

WineCountryUA

well they could decide to stop doing this, but I would rate that risk as low (but not zero).

zkzkz

Fwiw I found the restaurant.com credit to be the easiest way to preserve UA miles. 500 miles that I would be happy to throw away and I get a $25 credit on restaurant.com. I may or may not ever use it but if I do it's not bad value and if I don't it's a cheap way to keep the miles active.

Flying Machine

Found it.. Just extended his miles (18 month extension was instant) for 160 miles.. Downloaded a Taylor Swift Song for him

digitalmediastore.mileageplus.com

First link on Spend Miles was broken use the second..

I used this one:

http://digitalmediastore.mileageplus...ate=2014-01-07


Thanks and Safe Travel..

Dbears

I will be losing about 20k miles in April unless I have some activity and I'm not sure what to do. I obviously haven't flown United in a while and don't have any immediate plans but I hate to lose them. I'm thinking about applying for the chase card just to keep the account active but 30k is not very attractive. Any other thoughts?

scottpenderson

Easy way is to buy a song on the mileage plus digital media store. http://digitalmediastore.mileageplus.com/

emcampbe

There's a lot easier way to get miles to keep everything active then applying for a CC, especially if you don't actively want miles to use immediately. There used to be a thread somewhere with the cheapest or easiest ways to get them, for example. Even earning or using 1 mile will keep all of those 20,000 active for another 18 months. a few ideas:

- Log into the MP shopping portal and buy something: if you want cheap, a $1.29 iTunes song will earn you a mile or two (can't remember exactly); if you want something you are buying anyway, there are tons of stores in there and surely one you use for stuff you need - for example, if you have an HP printer, the HP store earns miles for cartridges, GroupOn is in there if you buy vouchers, etc. from them, and drugstore.com has stuff everyone uses, etc. You can look up stores by name/category, so see where you normally shop and see if those places are there
- Donate some miles to an org in need that MP partners with, or have a family member transfer a minimum amount of miles to you (or vice-versa)
- You can use miles for a newspaper/mag subscription - perhaps not the best value of miles, but it will work
- Sign up for MP Dining, add your CC, and look up restuarants near you that participate - if you dine out even semi-frequently in even a mid-size city, there's bound to be a couple that participate that you go to at least once in a while.

ATXflyer

+1 This is the easiest and cheapest way to keep them from expiring.

Starprincess

I had some significant life altering problems occur in 2010,as a result I have not traveled in 4 years. I have 75,000 UA miles that are expiring on 3/2015. Given all the new rules etc. is there any way to stall that expiration? Can I pay a fee to extend or buy some sort of an advanced ticket? Please advise.

P.S. much appreciate any response, I just am no longer up on the rules/strategies/tricks anymore.

pmarrsouth

Travel before then