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Old May 25, 2016, 6:43 pm
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* For this promotion, only dollars spent on the "fare" on eligible flights operated by United and United Express will qualify toward meeting spending milestones. Certain specialty tickets, including but not limited to unpublished, consolidator/bulk, group, tour and opaque fares, will not be counted towards spending milestones. Dollars spent on tickets purchased for flights operated by a Star Alliance member airline or a MileagePlus partner airline with tickets issued by United (ticket number starting with "016") will not qualify for this offer. The "fare" is the base fare of the ticket plus carrier-imposed surcharges, excluding any government-imposed taxes and surcharges. For tickets purchased in a currency other than U.S. dollars, we will convert the purchase to U.S. dollars using an industry-standard exchange rate. Please note that the price displayed when purchasing a ticket on united.com includes up to a 7.5% U.S. Federal Transportation Tax on the base amount of the fare on itineraries wholly within the United States. This tax also applies to certain itineraries between the United States and Canada or Mexico. The U.S. Federal Transportation tax will not count toward meeting any spending milestone.

** For this promotion, bonus award miles will be awarded for each spending milestone that has been met, subject to the terms and conditions. Milestone bonuses may be earned only once. Partial bonuses will not be awarded for members who don't reach a certain milestone. All calculations made in connection with this offer will be made by United MileagePlus® in its discretion and considered final.

Only original recipients of this email invitation can register and participate in this promotion.
Registration is required by November 15, 2016. Only tickets purchased and ticketed after registration and within the ticketing dates will qualify.
Ticketing and dates: May 25, 2016, through November 30, 2016.
Dollars earned toward this promotion will count as Premier® qualifying dollars toward MileagePlus Premier status qualification, but do not guarantee status. All other qualification requirements must be met for the applicable Premier® status.
This offer is not combinable with other non-combinable offers.
Bonus award miles will post to your account six to eight weeks after the promotion ends on November 30, 2016. Bonus will be calculated using the originally ticketed fares and/or fare classes, as applicable, and subsequent changes to any fares and/or fare classes as a result of itinerary changes, complimentary or paid upgrades, purchase of travel products (including but not limited to United ClubSM, Premier Access®, Award Accelerator®, Premier AcceleratorSM), irregular operations or otherwise will not be considered.

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If you received complimentary Premier status:

Your complimentary status is one level higher than the MileagePlus membership status reflected in your MileagePlus account on May 7, 2016. Your status will be not be increased to any other level in connection with this offer. If flights taken prior to May 7, 2016, are credited to your account after May 7, 2016, and result in you meeting the qualification requirements for a higher Premier status, your status will not be complimentarily upgraded again. Qualifying for a higher status level than the complimentary status awarded in connection with this offer requires meeting the published qualification thresholds for Premier status.
The complimentary status is valid through January 31, 2017.
A Premier membership card and kit will be not issued for the complimentary status period. Your new benefits will be reflected in your Mileage Plus account once you log in and you may enjoy Premier benefits on United- or United Express-operated flights by providing your account number when making reservations or at check-in.
During the complimentary status period, you may not have access to all reciprocal Premier benefits with United's partner airlines, including access to Star Alliance lounges.
Members will not receive Regional Premier Upgrades as part of this offer unless the published qualification thresholds for Premier Platinum status have been earned in the current year.
Offer is subject to change without notice. Other restrictions may apply.

If you received an Economy Plus subscription:

The Economy Plus® subscription can be used only on flights operated by United and United Express in the 48 contiguous U.S. states (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).
The Economy Plus subscription is complimentary, and will not result in the subscriber earning Premier qualifying dollars. The subscription is neither changeable nor transferable.
The Economy Plus subscription is valid through January 31, 2017, and can be used to request an Economy Plus seat at no cost on flights between May 10, 2016, and January 31, 2017. Any flights taken after January 31, 2017, will not qualify under the Economy Plus subscription.
Economy Plus seats on qualifying flights can be selected on united.com at booking, after booking before check-in, during check-in or at a check-in kiosk in the airport. Economy Plus seat assignments are not guaranteed.
The subscriber's MileagePlus number must be included in the reservation in order to receive the subscription benefits.
Offer is subject to change without notice. Other restrictions may apply.

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PROMOTION [targeted] - Extra RDMs for additional spend [May 25-Nov 30, 2016]

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Old May 25, 2016, 11:41 am
  #16  
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 137
Did not get the email. But clicking the link my offer:

$500---8000 miles
$1000---11000miles
$2500---19000miles
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:42 am
  #17  
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K and MM, Marriot, Hilton
Posts: 804
i usually don't get these promotions and it's funny that i booked about $5,000 in flights just a little bit over 24 hours ago but my promotion is below. I'm currently a 1K who has requalified for 2017 with >20K spend in 2016.

$8,500>37,000 RDM
$10,500>56,000 RDM
$16,000>93,000 RDM
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:42 am
  #18  
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1K (MM), DL, AA, AS, HHonors, SPG, Kimpton, Hyatt, IC PC, Marriott Titanium (LT PLT), Hertz PC
Posts: 7,231
Originally Posted by COSPILOT
Mine is: $6500-14,000, $7000-20,000, $9000-33,000.
No offense to you, but that makes me a bit angry...

I (also 1K) got:
$7,500- 10,000 bonus award miles
$8,000- 15,000 more award miles
$9,500- 25,000 more award miles

So, I need to spend more money, to get substantially fewer miles :roll eyes:.

Not necessarily against the promotion, but the execution is pretty terrible... United.
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:44 am
  #19  
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DEN
Programs: UA 1P-1MM, Marriott LT Titanium
Posts: 3,930
$2000 - 10,000
$2500 - 15,000
$4000 - 25,000

I don't fly that much for work any more and certainly don't concentrate on UA, but I should hit the $2500 mark in July without too much trouble.
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:49 am
  #20  
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Silicon wasteland
Programs: UA 1KMM
Posts: 1,381
Stinks that stuff booked *before* signing up for the promotion don't qualify even though we fly after. Any way around that?
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:50 am
  #21  
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: DTW/MBS
Programs: UA 1K, HHonors Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, Formerly Starbucks Gold
Posts: 3,525
$5500 - 9,000
$6000 - 13,000
$6500 - 21,000

I'm moved over to AA, so won't be taking advantage of this.

In total that's 43,000 miles for $6500 = 15 cpm.
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:50 am
  #22  
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K and MM, Marriot, Hilton
Posts: 804
Originally Posted by ryman554
Stinks that stuff booked *before* signing up for the promotion don't qualify even though we fly after. Any way around that?
i have not had any luck with previous promotions, like the PS promotion from last year
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:51 am
  #23  
 
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Houston/DC
Programs: UA 1K, 1MM
Posts: 564
Did not receive offer & not eligible when I entered my MP number.

Of course, I have purchased almost all of my commuting fights for this year and they can probably see that.
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:56 am
  #24  
 
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: LAX, EWR, LHR
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 227
No email but this is my offer... If I complete this I might qualify to GS.

Milestone 1: spend $16,000 and earn 26,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $17,500 total and earn 39,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $21,000 total and earn 65,000 more award miles
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:56 am
  #25  
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: DAY
Programs: UA 1K 1MM; Marriott LT Titanium; Amex MR; Chase UR; Hertz PC; Global Entry
Posts: 10,159
Originally Posted by blueman2
I got the same as this. No way I am going to spend any more on United than I need to hit 1K. Not after what they did in giving away 1K to every Tom, Dick and Harry.
+1

United wants me to spend $10,000 more dollars with them after a major devaluing of my earned 1K status?

And after booking ~$12,000 already this year?

Someone on Wacker is smoking some serious weed.

$10,000 = 21,000 miles
$11,500 = 31,000 miles
$14,000 = 52,000 miles

If United thinks they are getting $26K from me after kicking me in the teeth, they are really, really, high.
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:57 am
  #26  
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: London & Sonoma CA
Programs: UA 1K, MM *G for life, BAEC Gold
Posts: 10,224
$1500 - 10,000 miles
$2000 - 15,000 miles
$3500 - 25,000 miles

Sadly, I've already bought everything through the end of October.
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Old May 25, 2016, 11:59 am
  #27  
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 4,645
All over the map.

Mine are:

Milestone 1: spend $2,000 and earn 12,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $2,500 total and earn 17,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $4,000 total and earn 28,000 more award miles

This is the first offer for anything other than junk and buying miles that I've ever received since the Smisek/Continental takeover in 2012 and seems a clear and strong indicator that Munoz is trying to actually do something.

Interesting also to see the bonus tied to dollars, not miles flown.

However, I was excluded from the status upgrade, as expected.
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Old May 25, 2016, 12:04 pm
  #28  
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: WAS
Programs: UA 1K, AA EXP, WN A+, Hyatt Glob, Marriott Amb, Hertz PC
Posts: 1,126
LOL

$14,500 --> 17,000 miles
$15,000 --> +26,000 miles
$17,000 --> +43,000 miles
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Old May 25, 2016, 12:05 pm
  #29  
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: TX
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 729
My offer is

Milestone 1: spend $1,500 and earn 10,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $2,000 total and earn 15,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $3,500 total and earn 25,000 more award miles

Thought it was bad till I read this thread. Interestingly I have a really poor spend to EQM ratio. Currently at $1900 spend with 32k+ EQM. Perhaps targeting people who are frequent flyers on "good deal" tickets? I made Plat last year (and plan to again this year) solely because of cc waiver.
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Old May 25, 2016, 12:07 pm
  #30  
 
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: PWM
Programs: AA Plat
Posts: 1,335
No email but this is my offer...

1 - $1,500 Earn 8,000 bonus award miles
2 - $2,000 Earn 12,000 more bonus award miles
3 - $3,000 Earn 20,000 more bonus award miles

As usual, UA gives the best offers to those with no/low status.

I keep my PQD under $1500 for the year so there's no way I'm hitting those goals!
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