Email Offer: Win your share of 500,000 miles and get up to 100% bonus miles
Jul 25, 2017, 4:18 am
#16
Join Date: Apr 2003
Programs: UA *G 1MM LT United Club & Global Entry
Posts: 2,756
Make a dummy reward booking: try both a domestic and international routing.
Go into the reservation.
Click on Get extra miles.
You can also check any existing reservation(s) if you have them.
There should be a fairly low mileage amount offered. If the cost for the miles you need is less than the offer, purchase them this way.
But don't forget to cancel any dummy bookings within 24 hours!
SL
Jul 25, 2017, 9:56 am
#17
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 21,405
As another person noted, you should be able to get a better price than this on an Award Accelerator purchase. Furthermore, those prices are likely to be about the same in October as they are now, so you can wait and see how many more miles your travel earns you in the interim -- perhaps you'll need to make an unexpected trip and end up earning the miles organically.
Jul 25, 2017, 5:57 pm
#18
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: JZRO
Posts: 9,169
RNE, agreeing with you; this seems like a good offer.
Jul 25, 2017, 8:40 pm
#19
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: UA Plat MM, CM Plat, Amex Plat, Hertz CP, Hyatt Globalist, SPG Gold, Vons Club
Posts: 6,852
Jul 29, 2017, 1:25 pm
#20
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Jul 31, 2017, 8:58 am
#21
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Jul 31, 2017, 10:55 am
#22
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Aug 10, 2017, 6:27 pm
#24
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: ORD
Programs: Marriott Titanium Elite, UA Silver, AA Gold
Posts: 494
The current MP Explorer card signup bonus is best for getting additional miles, but if you only want/need 9,000 miles (relatively quickly) try this:
Make a dummy reward booking: try both a domestic and international routing.
Go into the reservation.
Click on Get extra miles.
You can also check any existing reservation(s) if you have them.
There should be a fairly low mileage amount offered. If the cost for the miles you need is less than the offer, purchase them this way.
But don't forget to cancel any dummy bookings within 24 hours!
SL
Make a dummy reward booking: try both a domestic and international routing.
Go into the reservation.
Click on Get extra miles.
You can also check any existing reservation(s) if you have them.
There should be a fairly low mileage amount offered. If the cost for the miles you need is less than the offer, purchase them this way.
But don't forget to cancel any dummy bookings within 24 hours!
SL