Earn United Airlines Bonus Miles on Your Upcoming Purchases
A few times a year, the United MileagePlus Shopping portal will offer bonus miles for certain spending thresholds.
This is a great way to increase your United miles balance by simply using the MileagePlus Shopping portal for purchases you were going to make anyway.
And if you participate each time these bonuses are offered, you could easily add anywhere from 1,000 up to 10,000 United miles just from the shopping portal.
Back to School Bonus
The current bonus is offering:
- 500 bonus miles when you spend $150
- 1,500 bonus miles when you spend $350
- 3,000 bonus miles when you spend $600
The bonus offer is valid today, 7/21/17 through 8/18/17.
Purchases made during this period through the United MileagePlus Shopping portal will count toward bonus mile earning.
Qualifying purchases are measured cumulatively, meaning you can make multiple purchases throughout the bonus period, and the grand total of all your purchases will determine the bonus miles you’ll earn.
Bonus miles will post to accounts 8-10 weeks after the bonus period ends.
Here’s the fine print in case you’re interested, especially as it pertains to “Qualifying purchases.”
A Purchase Example
Here’s an example of earning potential with this deal, factoring in a strategically used credit card to maximize points earning.
The Purchase: A $600 laptop
The Retailer: Staples.com
The Credit Card: Chase Ink Cash (earns 5x Ultimate Rewards points at office supply stores including Staples.)
The Process
- Sign in to the United MileagePlus Shopping portal using your MileagePlus account log in info.
- Search for Staples and click through to Staples.com
- Make your $600 laptop purchase on Staples.com using your Chase Ink Cash credit card to pay.
- Earn a ton of Miles and Points.
Total Miles and Points Earning
For this one purchase, Miles and Points earning would be as follows:
- United miles earned shopping at Staples.com – ~600 miles (exact total depends on sales tax)
- United Shopping portal bonus – 3,000 miles
- Ultimate Rewards earning – ~3,000 (5x total purchase price)
So for this one approximately $600 purchase, you’d earn 3,600 United miles via the MileagePlus Shopping portal and roughly 3,000 Ultimate Rewards points via the Chase Ink Cash card (that can be transferred to United at a 1:1 rate), making your total United miles haul 6,600 miles!
Of course, the amount earned via the credit card will vary depending on the card used and retailer at which you shop.
Wrap Up
The Purchase Example aside, the current United MileagePlus Shopping portal bonus is a great way to earn extra United miles simply by using the portal to do your online shopping over the next month.
How many bonus miles are you planning to earn?
