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Old Sep 14, 2018, 1:55 pm
  #136  
 
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1600 miles to pay for Economy Plus.
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Old Sep 14, 2018, 3:00 pm
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1 flight in premium cabin for 80k miles by 10/31. Convenient. I'll be flying for work in a few weeks.

Not even sure how this is fair because most of my UA miles come from international business travel.
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Old Sep 14, 2018, 3:07 pm
  #138  
 
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Another low mileage offer - 6,000 miles for 3 trips No min spend, no cabin specified. Earned roughly the same miles for a single low-cost trip on two earlier iterations. I'm planning 2 RTs before deadline - one international, but the other a transcon, so I guess I'll book 2 one-ways on that one to hit the goal. But it would be nice to get a higher mileage offer one of these millenia.
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Old Sep 14, 2018, 3:19 pm
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1 premium cabin flight for 47k miles. $1,600 minimum. Trying to decide if I can make this work or not.
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Old Sep 14, 2018, 8:53 pm
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I was offered 24,000 miles for 4 trips of >$800 spend each
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Old Sep 15, 2018, 6:24 am
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Originally Posted by Hipplewm
I would take $3000 in spend for 30K bonus

You get 1 mile per 0.10 at 50K for $5000 spend

@Kacee and I get 0.03, so you get 3 times more value for your "Bonus" even if it is harder to attain
What really kills me is that if I had known about this promotion at the beginning of it (late August), I would already be 3/5ths of the way there However, based on T&Cs, I have no trips accrued. While I suspect that I would still not have made it till the end of October, my flying is highly variable and trips can be clustered.
I would have liked the chance to have participated.
C'est la vie.
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Old Sep 15, 2018, 9:05 am
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Originally Posted by radonc1
What really kills me is that if I had known about this promotion at the beginning of it (late August), I would already be 3/5ths of the way there However, based on T&Cs, I have no trips accrued. While I suspect that I would still not have made it till the end of October, my flying is highly variable and trips can be clustered.
I would have liked the chance to have participated.
C'est la vie.
Yeah this promotion was not publicized as best as I can tell. Just saw a random link on the moving screen of the new website. I've given up hope of these promotions being helpful or useful to me!
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Old Sep 15, 2018, 10:16 am
  #143  
 
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What date did the promotion go live/start?
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Old Sep 15, 2018, 4:49 pm
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Originally Posted by FlyingHighlander
What date did the promotion go live/start?
I received an email about it 2 days ago, but based on other posts it seems that United has had similar promotions like this a number of times this year
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Old Sep 15, 2018, 5:15 pm
  #145  
 
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Here is the offer I got. Not high as other on here I'm still happy for some easy miles.

"Book and take a trip 2 times by October 31, 2018 to get 14,000 bonus award miles."

"Book and take a trip on United or United Express® by October 31, 2018, spending at least $350 per trip."
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Old Sep 15, 2018, 7:59 pm
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"Book and take a trip 1 time by October 31, 2018 to get 2,500 bonus award miles. *Each purchased fare must be a minimum of $200 to qualify"
They must be joking.
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Old Sep 16, 2018, 9:26 am
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DOes anyone know if two one ways are considered two trips?
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Old Sep 16, 2018, 10:30 am
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Originally Posted by Bruin1K
DOes anyone know if two one ways are considered two trips?
I would think so per T&C: Trip is defined as each unique travel itinerary as documented by United with a confirmation number.

Terms and conditions

Eligibility:
• Only original offer recipients can register for and participate in this promotion.
• Promotion code: T004MA

How to participate:
• Member must register for this promotion on or prior to October 31, 2018. Only transactions initiated after registration and completed on or prior to October 31, 2018 will qualify toward satisfaction of the offer requirements.
• Registrant must complete all activity specified in the offer to receive bonus award miles. Partial bonuses for completing only certain activity will not be awarded. Bonus award miles may only be earned once.

Book and take X trip(s):
• Qualifying trip requirements:
1. Trip (as defined below) booking must be made after registration.
2. All flight activity for applicable Trip must be complete on or prior to October 31, 2018.
3. Each Trip must have a fare (as defined below) equal to or greater than $YYY.
4. The final fare amount for the Trip will be used to determine satisfaction of offer requirements, including itinerary changes that result in an increase or decrease to the fare and paid upgrades that result in an increase to the fare.
• “Trip” is defined as each unique travel itinerary as documented by United with a confirmation number.
• 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 Star Alliance™ member airline or a United 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.
• Offer is not valid on government fares.
• Flights on award travel tickets do not qualify for meeting the requirements of this offer.
• E-Ticket purchase is required. Service charges for ticketing with a United representative in the 50 United States, District of Columbia and Canada are $25 by phone, $30 at a City Ticket Office and $35 in person at the airport. Ticketing charges may vary outside of the U.S. and Canada and based on MileagePlus status level. The ticketing service charge does not apply for tickets purchased on united.com. Service charges are subject to change without notice.

Other important information:
• This offer is not combinable with other non-combinable offers.
• Miles earned through this promotion do not count toward Premier status or Million Miler Status and do not apply to class-of-service bonus miles, Premier bonus miles or promotional Premier qualifying miles.
• Qualifying activity must be posted to the applicable member's MileagePlus account in order to qualify for this offer.
• Bonus miles will post to your MileagePlus account six to eight weeks after the promotion ends on October 31, 2018.
• Offer ends at 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Central Time) on October 31, 2018.
• If transactions are reversed or canceled or refunds occur such that the offer requirements are not satisfied, applicable miles will not be awarded or will be deducted from the MileagePlus member account.
• All calculations and other determinations made in connection with this offer will be made by United in its discretion and are considered final.
• Offer is subject to change without notice. Other restrictions may apply.
• Miles accrued, awards, and benefits issued are subject to change and are subject to the rules of the United MileagePlus program, including without limitation the Premier® program (the "MileagePlus Program"), which are expressly incorporated herein. United® may change the MileagePlus Program including, but not limited to, rules, regulations, travel awards and special offers or terminate the MileagePlus Program at any time and without notice. United and its subsidiaries, affiliates and agents are not responsible for any products or services of other participating companies and partners. Taxes and fees related to award travel are the responsibility of the member. Bonus award miles, award miles and any other miles earned through non-flight activity do not count toward qualification for Premier status unless expressly stated otherwise. The accumulation of mileage or Premier status or any other status does not entitle members to any vested rights with respect to the MileagePlus Program. All calculations made in connection with the MileagePlus Program, including without limitation with respect to the accumulation of mileage and the satisfaction of the qualification requirements for Premier status, will be made by United Airlines® and MileagePlus in their discretion and such calculations will be considered final. Information in this communication that relates to the MileagePlus Program does not purport to be complete or comprehensive and may not include all of the information that a member may believe is important, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to all of the information on the united.com website and the MileagePlus Program rules. United and MileagePlus are registered service marks. See additional MileagePlus rules and conditions.
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Old Sep 16, 2018, 10:59 am
  #149  
 
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Originally Posted by br2k
"Book and take a trip 1 time by October 31, 2018 to get 2,500 bonus award miles. *Each purchased fare must be a minimum of $200 to qualify"
They must be joking.
I got that offer in the last mile play. It was a bit pathetic.
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Old Sep 16, 2018, 11:08 am
  #150  
 
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For those who received an offer they felt is bad, I'm curious to know what offer you'd have preferred to see that you'd perceive as fair, and whether that offer is realistic based on your history with United.
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