I visited a friend last week who doesn’t fly a huge amount each year and he asked me what I thought about United’s Mileage Plus Explorer credit card. United is aggressively promoting the card (and yes… I’m featuring it here now, too), but he wondered if he should hold off applying for the current offer…
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Easy Extension of United Airlines Regional, Global Premier Upgrades?
United has been allowing the extension of expiring Regional Premier Upgrades and Global Premier Upgrades (at your request) during the past several months. And I had one of each expiring tomorrow that were extended through December 31, 2012. My call to the MileagePlus Service Center took less than a minute and after providing my PIN,…
United Awarded Marketer of the Year, Plus Some Insightful Nuggets
Last week, the Direct Marketing Association named United Airlines and Macy’s joint marketers of the year. Initially, the United nod had me scratching my head. But after reading a bit more of the background and realizing how different and specialized the email are that I receive now post-merger, I pretty much agree. They still have…
United’s Generous Compensation, Yet Impersonal Reply About My Cancelled Flight
I posted last week about how I proactively rebooked myself and was able to keep my upgrade after my United Airlines Sydney to Los Angeles flight cancelled. The next day, I emailed ‘1K Voice’ asking for compensation for the 24-hour delay and subsequent expenses incurred for an extra day in Australia. I further explained that…
United Airlines MileagePlus Explorer and Club credit cards by Chase
[Edited 7/2/12: The offers below have expired] As other BoardingArea bloggers have posted already today, we all received an email from our affiliate company advising us that our links for the United Airlines MileagePlus Explorer and MileagePlus Club cards will be deactivated on Monday, July 2. But don’t panic if you’ve been meaning to apply…
United’s Global Entry compensation benefit coming in June
In scanning around United.com today, I noticed a bit more information was added about the Global Entry compensation benefit since I last looked at that page. The benefit, available to Global Services, Premier 1K and Premier Platinum MileagePlus members, waives the $100 fee for program that speeds you through immigration and customs (assuming you’re approved).…
United CFO: Certain elites were over entitled
There’s a thread on FlyerTalk discussing a comment United Airlines CFO John Rainey made during the 2012 Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Global Transportation Conference that caught my eye earlier today. I was highly intrigued, so had to take a listen to the presentation myself and here’s exactly what he said: That statement was made while…
United Airlines MileagePlus Club credit card from Chase
I’ve added the United Airlines MileagePlus Club credit card from Chase to my page dedicated to mile and point earning credit cards. While this card doesn’t offer bonus miles for signing up like the MileagePlus Explorer card does, there are many other benefits that are equally appealing depending on your travel habits. Among them: Annual…
Round three: My problems redeeming a United e-certificate
Success! I finally received resolution on my previously blogged about issue redeeming a $200 United Airlines customer appreciation e-certificate. Here are the links to round one and round two and a short recap: The e-certificate wasn’t recognized when I tried making a booking online. On my first call to reservations, the agent had me build…
United offering up to 25,000 bonus miles in targeted campaign
As widely blogged and reported, United Airlines has a new promotion out there today offering up to 25,000 bonus MileagePlus miles after completion of a defined number of roundtrip flights from now through 7/15/12. Based on what I’ve read from others, it definitely appears targeted and the required number of trips varies. I saw a…