{"id":16589,"date":"2017-07-27T03:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2022-10-27T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:48:18","slug":"purchase-united-miles-100-bonus-september-12-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/purchase-united-miles-100-bonus-september-12-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchase United Miles With a 100% Bonus Through September 12, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>This United buy miles promotion has ended. However, you can still buy United miles <a href=\"\/blog\/link\/BuyUnitedMiles\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>United has announced a mileage sale, where you can <a href=\"\/blog\/link\/BuyUnitedMiles\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\">pick up to 100% bonus on purchased miles<\/a>. It has been a while since United held a sale with such a large bonus; the <a href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/buy-united-miles-with-100-bonus-in-mileageplus-flash-sale\/\">last time was in May 2016<\/a>.\u00a0 The offer is relatively straightforward and runs through September 12, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img data-aspectratio=\"2286\/1048\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16590 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/United-100-Percent-Bonus.jpg\" alt=\"United 100 Percent Bonus\" width=\"2286\" height=\"1048\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/United-100-Percent-Bonus.jpg 2286w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/United-100-Percent-Bonus-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/United-100-Percent-Bonus-1024x469.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2286px) 100vw, 2286px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Key_Terms\">Key Terms<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimum purchase of 2,000 miles<\/li>\n<li>Offer valid until September 12, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Offer is tiered, and you will need to buy at least 50,000 miles to receive the 100%<\/li>\n<li>Bonus miles take up to 48 hours to post in your account<\/li>\n<li>Purchased and bonus miles do not count towards United Premier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Should_You_Buy_United_Miles\">Should You Buy United Miles?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This depends on a couple of factors, and whether you know\u00a0if you will use the miles or not. Although purchasing miles speculatively is not recommended, if you have a United MileagePlus balance and are <a href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/united-mileageplus-miles-expire\/\">nearing your 18-month mileage expiry deadline<\/a>, then purchasing miles is a good way to keep your account and miles alive. However, it is easier and less expensive to use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shopping.mileageplus.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MileagePlus Shopping<\/a> or dining program to create account activity and earn miles. If you are close to a reward then this promotion is one of your better options to reach your required miles.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Overall\">Overall<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you need the miles, then this is the best value you are going to get for topping up your mileage account through a mileage purchase. But if you don\u2019t, then buying miles speculatively is not really a great idea. At the top end of <a href=\"\/blog\/link\/BuyUnitedMiles\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\">this promotion with a 100% bonus<\/a>, you are still paying 1.75 cents per mile. Unless you need the miles to\u00a0hit a specific redemption, we'd say holding cash is preferable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ftoc\"><div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"toc_light_blue no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Page Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Key_Terms\">Key Terms<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Should_You_Buy_United_Miles\">Should You Buy United Miles?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Overall\">Overall<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United has announced a mileage sale, where you can pick up to 100% bonus on purchased miles. It has been a while since United held a sale with such a large bonus; the last time was in May 2016.\u00a0 The offer is relatively straightforward and runs through September 12, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12069],"tags":[14204,12772],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buy-transfer-bonus","tag-united-mileageplus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27105,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions\/27105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}