United℠ Business Card Review 2025.7 Update: The new offer is 110k: in addition to the 100k offer with $5k spending requirement, earn 10k more miles when you add an authorized user in the first 3 months. That’s 110k miles in total. Offer ends on Nov 5. 2025.6 Update: The welcome offer is now lowered to 85k. 2025.4 Update: There’s a…
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United℠ Club Business Card Review 2025.7 Update: The new offer is 110k: in addition to the 100k offer with $5k spending requirement, earn 10k more miles when you add an authorized user in the first 3 months. That’s 110k miles in total. Offer ends on Nov 5. 2025.6 Update: The welcome offer is now lowered to 90k. 2025.4 Update: There’s…
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United Quest℠ Card (Chase UA Quest) Review 2025.6 Update2: The new welcome offer is 100k! This is the best ever offer on this card. 2025.6 Update: The welcome offer is now lowered to 80k. 2025.4 Update: There’s a new link with better offer 100k: in addition to the 90k offer with $4k spending requirement, earn 5k more miles when you…
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United℠ Explorer Card (Chase UA Explorer) Review 2025.6 Update: The welcome offer is now lowered to 70k. 2025.4 Update: There’s a new link with better offer 90k: in addition to the 80k offer with $3k spending requirement, earn 5k more miles when you add an authorized user in the first 3 months, and earn 5k more miles upon approval when…
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United Gateway℠ Card Review 2025.7 Update: The new offer is 30k: in addition to the 20k offer with $1k spending requirement, earn 10k more miles when you add an authorized user in the first 3 months. That’s 30k miles in total. Offer ends on Nov 5. 2025.4 Update: There’s a new link with better offer 40k: in addition to the 30k…
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United Club℠ Infinite Card (Chase UA Club) Review 2025.7 Update: The welcome offer is lowered to 70k. 2025.4 Update: There’s a new link with better offer 105k: in addition to the 95k offer with $5k spending requirement, earn 5k more miles when you add an authorized user in the first 3 months, and earn 5k more miles upon approval when you…
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The United TravelBank Card Review 2020.9 Update: This card will become a card called Chase United Getaway on 9/21. The main difference is, you earn TravelBank Cash with the previous card, and you will earn United miles with the new card. HT: DoC. 2020.5 Update: This card is removed from both Chase and United, and all existing application links seem…
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Today it was announced that American Airlines is going to raise the revenue requirements for Executive Platinum. At American, it used to be the case that you need to spend $12,000 Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQD) to earn the Executive Platinum status. Now the EQD threshold has increased to $15,000, representing a 25% hike. This move actually mirrored what United has done…
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Back in late April United opened its second Polaris Lounge in San Francisco, and it was a truly amazing lounge. At the preview event, we were told that the next Polaris Lounge to be opened will be United’s fortress hub at Newark. Indeed, a couple of days ago it was announced that EWR’s Polaris Lounge will be open to public…
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This is an introduction to how to retroactively request mileage credit on the major U.S. airlines. There are a variety of reasons one might want to retroactively request mileage credit. For instance: The miles from a flight you took do not appear in your frequent flyer account after a certain period of time (varies by airline, as described below). You…
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This post is a collection of hotel points -> UA miles promotions. Similar hotel points -> AA miles promotions are collected here. 2017.10.12: 30% Bonus Miles There is a limited time promotion for UA that through November 30, you will earn a 30% mileage bonus (up to 25000 bonus award miles) when you transfer hotel points to UA. The official…
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Introduction MileagePlus X (MPX) is an app that allows you to earn extra United Airlines miles for shopping with one of their listed partners. The app’s been out for a while but it doesn’t get much discussion. No surprises there, since it doesn’t look like United cares too much about this app either. The UI for iOS devices are still…
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1. Introduction United Airlines is one of the three legacy carriers in the U.S. alongside American Airlines and Delta. Their miles are some of the best when it comes to redeeming for international travel. Here are a few reasons why I like them a lot: United miles are relatively easy to earn They have a big network of partner airlines to…
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