Continental sent out their weekly “News and Offers†email to subscribers yesterday and I noticed an offer for 200 “free†OnePass (soon to be MileagePlus) miles for new e-miles memberships and a sweepstakes with a grand prize of 100,000 miles.
There’s a bit of work to get those 200 miles, though, as it requires you sign-up and activate your free membership by February 29, 2012, then participate in a little marketing research.
I haven’t signed up as of yet, but probably will in the coming days just to check it out and see if continued participation might yield a few hundred miles here and there. Miles earned in the program can then be redeemed with a variety of airlines, either Hilton or IHG Priority Club on the hotel front, or converted into Amazon gift cards.
Given the terms state it takes 4-6 weeks for the 200 miles to post, I’d recommend plugging your OnePass number in to avoid any posting issues once legacy MileagePlus numbers disappear on March 3.
200 miles is a minuscule reward for helping them create a detailed customer profile. No thanks. For me, the question is how many EQM/PQM it would take for that to be attractive. Probably somewhere between 2,000 – 5,000.
I just read these rules…. does this mean that we have to keep answering 20-point surveys until we get up to the 500 point threshold to get any points at all? If that’s the case, I’ll pass…. it’s not worth the time.
•e-Miles miles are deposited in 500 mile increments with overages remaining in your e-Miles account. e-Miles reserves the right to change the increments and/or frequency of deposits.
•e-Miles miles not deposited into your OnePass account expire one year after the quarter in which they were earned.
@Arthur: Agreed that 200 miles isn’t much of a teaser.
@Arnold: I haven’t gone in as deep as you have yet to read the terms & conditions (I’m on a multi-day mileage run right now). Based on what you’ve found, it doesn’t sound that appealing… thanks for posting the info!