United has released another round of targeted Mile Play offers and, in at least some cases, they’ll be easy challenges to complete. My wife and I were both targeted for 7,000 bonus miles after taking 3 trips.
The Deal
- Earn bonus MileagePlus miles when completing United Mile Play offers.
Direct link to see if you’re targeted
Key Terms
- Member must register for this promotion on or prior to September 13, 2024.
- Only transactions initiated after registration and completed on or prior to September 13, 2024 will qualify toward satisfaction of the offer requirements.
- All flight activity for applicable Trip must be complete on or prior to September 13, 2024.
- Each Trip must have a fare equal to or greater than $100.
- “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- Certain specialty tickets, including but not limited to unpublished, consolidator/bulk, group, tour and opaque fares, will not be counted towards spending milestones.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.
- Flights on award travel tickets do not qualify for meeting the requirements of this offer.
- Bonus miles will post to your MileagePlus account six to eight weeks after the promotion ends on September 13, 2024.
Quick Thoughts
Mile Play offers vary from person to person – if you’re even targeted – so there’s not one single offer that’s applicable to everyone and it seems like, more and more, they send out offers in waves as opposed to all at once. My offer gives 7,000 bonus miles when taking three trips with United by September 13th. A “trip” is defined as a flight that costs more than $100 and one-way flights count.
There are a couple of important things to be aware of when it comes to United Mile Play offers. The first is that the spending threshold for the flight(s) you need to take relates to the fare itself. There are various taxes and fees added on when booking paid flights, so in my case the fare + carrier-imposed surcharges portion has to be at least $100, without counting government-imposed taxes and fees…but your spending threshold might be higher or lower.
The other key thing to be aware of is that qualifying flights have to be booked after you’ve registered for the promotion. Last year, Nick booked a United flight just a couple of days before being targeted for MilePlay. However, because that was booked before registering for his Mile Play offer, it wasn’t eligible to be a qualifying flight to complete the offer requirements. Thankfully that was easy to remedy; the price hadn’t changed, so he was able to cancel and rebook it in order to earn the bonus miles from the flight.
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1 trip, minimum $275, earn 5x up to 15,000 miles
2 flights at $175 for 3,300 miles
1 flight with $250 minimum for 5,500 miles.
2 flights $200+ each, 11k miles.
Does using travel bank cash or future flight credit to book a flight qualify you for the bonus miles?
Take two trips $150 each earn 4,100 points, doable.
Premium seat, 4 times, minimum $400, 42000 miles, not bad !
5x bonus miles up to 12k points after 1 trip costing $200+.
2 trips, $100 minimum each, 2500 miles. Definitely not enough to get me to fly United given that their fares are almost never competitive these days
Data Point:
Book and take a trip 3 times to get 12,000 bonus award miles.
*Each purchased fare must be a minimum of $200 to qualify, and must be booked after registration and completed on or before promotion end date to qualify. See full terms and conditions below.
not targeted
Book and take a trip in a premium seat 2 times to get 35,000 bonus award miles.
34DAYS LEFT
Registered February 10, 2024
Ends March 15, 2024
*Each purchased fare must be a minimum of $700 to qualify, and must be booked after registration and completed on or before promotion end date to qualify. See full terms and conditions below.
1 trip, $275 minimum, 5,800 miles.
$200 spend, premium seat, 5000 miles. I like it.
I was targeted for 5,000 miles. Wish I could take advantage of it. On a similar note, Southwest keeps lowering the price on my trip to LAX in March and I keep re-booking at the lower price. Are these indications of travel demand softness? If so, similar offers should also pop up from other airlines.