United Airlines has launched a new offer for up to 50% bonus when buying or gifting Mileage Plus miles on or before March 23, 2015.
You can buy up to 150,000 miles in a calendar year and the price of a mile under this offers depends of your targeted bonus.
You can access this offer and see your bonus amount on United’s website here.
The price of purchasing 150,000 miles with 50% bonus is 2.51 cents each.
Conclusion
During the last devaluation United reduced the number of miles required for handful of awards, but greatly devalued most partner awards in business and first class. There can still be instances, where buying miles could make sense.
United tends to have miles sales at 50% off every once in a while. You can likely score a better deal if you can wait.
Seems United is now using Points.com to process these miles purchases, where they used to process these by themselves.
Here are the terms and conditions of this targeted offer:
- Promotional offer valid until 11:59 p.m. CT (Chicago local time) on March 23, 2015.
- Miles are available in increments of 1,000 up to a maximum of 100,000 miles, and in increments of 5,000 up to a maximum of 150,000 miles.
- Purchase up to 150,000 miles per account per calendar year.
- Displayed miles include all bonuses.
- Price displayed on this page does not include any fees or taxes.
- Credit card will be billed immediately upon purchase.
- Mileage rates and other fees and offer terms are subject to change.
- Allow 48 hours for miles to process and post to your MileagePlus account.
- Miles are nonrefundable.
- Purchased miles do not count toward MileagePlus Premier® status.
- All MileagePlus Program Rules and terms and conditions apply.
- GST/HST is charged to Canadian residents.
- Credit card will be billed immediately upon purchase.
- Powered by Points to purchase United MileagePlus miles. Transaction will appear as ‘Points United Miles’.
