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For years, United MileagePlus has offered targeted bonuses to its members to encourage air travel. It's been a while since we have seen one of these promotions. But, United's targeted bonus miles offers are back!
This week, United launched a new “Multiply Your Memories” promotion to incentivize MileagePlus members to travel this winter. And some travelers are getting the chance to earn up to 10X bonus miles.
Up to 10X Bonus United Miles Promotion
- First, you'll need to check if you're eligible for this promotion
- Alternatively, if you've received an email with this promotion, click the link to check your offer.
- Book and complete a trip by January 10, 2021.
- Receive up to 10X bonus points on your trip. Some members are getting 7X bonus points, and there could be other amounts.
- Registered members can earn a maximum of 50,000 bonus award miles.
- Bonus award miles will post to your MileagePlus account six to eight weeks after the promotion ends.
Some of us at AwardWallet aren't targeted, but one of us lucked into a 10X bonus miles offer:
Terms and Conditions
- You must book your trip after registration
- You will only receive the bonus miles on the fare and carrier-imposed surcharges and excludes any government-imposed taxes and surcharges
- Only fares of eligible flights operated by United and United Express qualify.
- Tickets booked with Star Alliance member airlines don't qualify. The ticket number needs to start with 016.
- Flights on award travel tickets don't qualify either.
- 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.
Final Thoughts
Not everyone will qualify for this offer. Seemingly all MileagePlus accounts registered outside the U.S. aren't eligible for this promotion. Obviously, if you've been targeted for this promotion and you have a flight you can take before January 10, 2021, you should definitely take advantage of this offer.
If you do qualify, this is a great bonus to take advantage of—especially if you're inching to fly again after months of staying home. If you have a flight planned with United in the next couple of months, definitely check if you've been targeted for this promotion. And don't forget to maximize your bonus miles by using a credit card with United benefits—such as the United℠ Explorer Card.
Were you targeted? If so, let us know what bonus you received in the comments below.
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Looks like a great offer from United. Looking forward to traveling once again.
To those who may wonder if it is ethically right for an airline company to incentivize air travel (which is what this United promotion essentially does) during a COVID wave: traveling by air is actually quite safe… while in the air. As for why people travel, and whom they visit — that may actually be problematic from a public health perspective.
I got the 10x offer. I haven’t flown United since 2017 when I used up the last of my miles (currently have 203 exactly). I do have the United personal card though. I wonder if I got a higher offer to try to persuade me to come back or if it’s just random.
I got 5X, if I only needed to fly by Jan 10!
I gave it a try and got the 7x instead of 10x. Oh well, wish I could actually use the offer.
Would it be possible that the algorithm alone picks the lucky chosen ones?
Another great offer from United. I hope they keep it coming into next year even I can seriously think about travel.
They should offer a blanket 10x offer to cheer everyone up.
Not eligible. 🙁
Ineligible. Bummer! But thanks for the heads up.
Nothing for me or either of my 2 sons… and I have 2 UAL credit cards. 🙁
I had forgotten about this one. Thanks for the reminder! If I need to fly United (I’m prioritizing Delta due to the status match challenge) it will soften the blow.
Not eligible for this and wasn’t eligible last time either.
Received 5X bonus…wife got 3X
By no means is it science, but looking at the number of comments here might suggest that the targeting was somewhat broad this time. Many seem to have received at least some offer. Now we get to wonder how many actually fly during the window.
I wonder how they determine who this is marketed to? Great way to stack up bonus miles. What a great way to give extra miles.
So how does it work? I believe everyone earns 5 miles, then you earn bonus miles for status, then there will be 7 more miles (for me at least)?
not sure why I only got 3x but at least that my wife got nothing
I’d be really curious to learn their algorithm for the promotion. Do you and your wife have similar travel habits? Or status? I have silver and got the 7x.
I had already received and registered for the offer. I got the 5x bonus. I am still flying for work. Usually I fly American, but if United has a better schedule, it will be nice that I will earn extra miles.
Seven time bonus United miles is a very interesting option to consider. This assumes that we feel safe in traveling.
5X for me.
Not eligible. I wonder how they determined who was targeted for what.
Got 5x here – though likely not taking any flights during the period.
3x here. But I only checked out of curiosity. No way I’m getting on a plane anytime soon.
I believe I got this promo. Since I am not going to travel within this time period I didn’t look really close at it. It would be awesome to get those bonus miles.
It looks like that United will not give away much through this promotion after all. 🙂
Thanks for the heads-up. My offer is for 5x bonus miles. (No plans to fly anytime soon, but just in case.)
Just perfect. Have the 7x but no intention of flying for at least 9 months 😢
I was disappointed to not get the offer, but your comment made me feel better since we also don’t plan to fly anytime soon 🙁
I received a targeted offer of 5x, I have the Chase United Explorer credit card.
Not available for me. I am domestic, wondering why?