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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 Certain specialty tickets, including but not limited to unpublished, consolidator/bulk, group, tour and opaque fares, will not be counted towards spending milestones.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 27, 2016, 1:52 pm
  #346  
 
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 19
Mine are

Milestone 1: spend $1,000 and earn 8,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $1,500 total and earn 12,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $2,500 total and earn 20,000 more award miles
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Old May 27, 2016, 2:06 pm
  #347  
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posts: 176
These are my spending milestones:

Milestone 1: spend $500 and earn 10,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $1,000 total and earn 15,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $2,500 total and earn 25,000 more award miles
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Old May 27, 2016, 2:25 pm
  #348  
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: LBB
Programs: UA 1K 1MM ★G | Marriott LTT | Hilton ♦ | Hertz PC | Global Entry TSA Pre ✓
Posts: 2,820
$1,601 PQD next week ... only $40,899 to go to get my 214,000 miles. LOL

Even if I spent this every week until the Nov. deadline, I may barely hit the first marker of $38,500 PQD.

Not going to happen. Ridiculous bar to set. GS agent on the phone earlier today had no clue about the promotion, and couldn't give me any guidance. LOL
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Old May 27, 2016, 3:07 pm
  #349  
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Originally Posted by ryder1650
Ridiculous


Milestone 1: spend $25,500 and earn 46,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $29,500 total and earn 69,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $33,000 total and earn 114,000 more award mile
why ridiculous? Because $33k is not doable? I am sure UA looked at your previous history and concluded that this is not out of range. An extra 227k miles is certainly a nice bonus on $33k spending.
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Old May 27, 2016, 3:41 pm
  #350  
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: USA
Programs: UA (1K, 2MM), AA, Avis, National
Posts: 867
Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
I have seen matched to my numbers.
Here goes my conspiracy theory...
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Old May 27, 2016, 3:47 pm
  #351  
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 397
Originally Posted by hornagain
Mine are

Milestone 1: spend $1,000 and earn 8,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $1,500 total and earn 12,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $2,500 total and earn 20,000 more award miles
Originally Posted by JM
These are my spending milestones:

Milestone 1: spend $500 and earn 10,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $1,000 total and earn 15,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $2,500 total and earn 25,000 more award miles
These two, back to back, highlight the absurdity of this. Same third tier milestone in terms of spend, but one comes with 25% more miles. Yet one has a 1st tier that's half the other, but yields 25% more miles. And where they overlap in the middle, at $1,000, one offers about twice the miles of the other.

I understand setting higher spend goals for some people, and rewarding those higher spend goals with relatively fewer miles, but this dichotomy is nonsensical to me.
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Old May 27, 2016, 4:41 pm
  #352  
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: ROC/NYC/MSP/LAX/HKG/SIN
Posts: 3,215
What a lame promotion it is. My promotional details are:

3500 PQD = 10k RDM
5000 PQD = 15k RDM
7500 PQD = 25k RDM

We have some of the better ways to get RDMs. I would not even bother.

If IA wants us to get more J/F cabin, it is better to just bring back the premium cabin bonus in short/long distance flights.
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Old May 27, 2016, 5:29 pm
  #353  
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Hoboken, NJ; Pembroke Pines, FL
Programs: CO Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 2,939
I wonder what offer Tom got?
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Old May 27, 2016, 5:39 pm
  #354  
 
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Southern California
Programs: United 1K
Posts: 121
Mine:

Milestone 1: spend $6,500 and earn 25,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $8,000 total and earn 38,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $11,500 total and earn 62,000 more award miles

I'll probably hit it. In fact, after registering for the offer, I had to book a last minute trip costing $8860. (Although it was only $7663 before taxes and fees).

So I think I either hit Milestone 2 or came close already?
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Old May 27, 2016, 6:12 pm
  #355  
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Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Ewa Beach, Hawaii
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Here is my offer. Yes, I signed up. 2 seconds to do, so easy.

Milestone 1: spend $12,500 and earn 23,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $14,000 total and earn 34,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $16,500 total and earn 56,000 more award miles
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Old May 27, 2016, 6:14 pm
  #356  
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: BOS/BDL
Programs: MileagePlus Club, Amex Platinum, AAdvantage, SkyMiles
Posts: 232
Originally Posted by minnyfly
Nothing for me. Bummer.
You followed the link, put in your MP # and it said "sorry, we don't care about you"?

Originally Posted by minnyfly
The reports I'm seeing make sense. People don't realize that, by and large, promotions are not "fair and equal" and are intended to reward the "less deserving". If they were only designed for the best customers, it's like throwing money down a hole. Maybe the higher elites would rather have nothing...
WELL said.
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Old May 27, 2016, 6:20 pm
  #357  
 
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Originally Posted by cfischer
why ridiculous? Because $33k is not doable? I am sure UA looked at your previous history and concluded that this is not out of range. An extra 227k miles is certainly a nice bonus on $33k spending.
And for 229k miles it's a no-brainer....
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Old May 27, 2016, 6:23 pm
  #358  
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: NYC, LON
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Posts: 2,774
Originally Posted by dnwaldmann
And for 229k miles it's a no-brainer....
why?
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Old May 27, 2016, 7:04 pm
  #359  
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: BOS/BDL
Programs: MileagePlus Club, Amex Platinum, AAdvantage, SkyMiles
Posts: 232
Originally Posted by ani90
why?
Originally Posted by ryder1650
Milestone 1: spend $25,500 and earn 46,000 bonus award miles
Milestone 2: spend $29,500 total and earn 69,000 more award miles
Milestone 3: spend $33,000 total and earn 114,000 more award mile
Originally Posted by cfischer
I am sure UA looked at your previous history and concluded that this is not out of range. An extra 227k miles is certainly a nice bonus on $33k spending.
Originally Posted by dnwaldmann
And for 229k miles it's a no-brainer....
I was merely pointing out that 46,000 + 69,000 + 114,000 = 229,000, not 227,000.
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Old May 27, 2016, 10:03 pm
  #360  
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 40
I am 1K and have spent $9k and have flown 62,000 miles and 66 segments. I didn't get an email but registered via the link and got a total of 90,000 miles:

$15k = 18,000 miles
$16k = 27,000 miles
$18k = 45,000 miles
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