Great deal on award travel for Mileage Plus members!

[Fionasmommy]

If you have miles saved up, this is a pretty good deal! 1,000 miles can be redeemed for a $25 e-certificate towards a United or Ted flight - 5,000 miles can be redeemed for a $75 e-certificate towards a United or Ted flight. If you're a MP member, you can redeem by logging into your MP account online and clicking on the "United e-Certfificates" box on the right hand side of the screen.

I cashed in 15,000 miles to purchase 3 e-certificates, and with the savings our non-stop DEN-MCO flights came out to $122.30 each!

One note of warning: you can only book one ticket w/ each e-cert code (even if you wanted to pay full fare for the others), so for a family you have to do it all separately and then call and link all of the reservations. I also had to book DD5 as an adult because the system wouldn't let me buy a ticket for a minor w/ out buying an adult ticket as well. But no worries, I just called them and they added a note to the reservation and assured me that it wouldn't be a problem at all.

ETA: Travel must be completed by June 14, 2007.

 

[chris1gill]

Hmm, this is interesting, but if 1K miles is worth 25.00, shouldn't 3K miles be worth 75.00?

Also right now if you take 3 flights before Feb. 28th & register beforehand, you can get a bonus 25K miles... I'm thinking of booking 3 trips for 120 a piece, so 360.00 for 25K miles plus online checkin/booking bonus & mileage....

I can't decide if I want to do it.... I wish the miles would post sooner than mid-April because I need miles NOW to book a year end Hawaii trip.... what to do....

 

[Fionasmommy]

Hmm, this is interesting, but if 1K miles is worth 25.00, shouldn't 3K miles be worth 75.00?

I wish! But still, I figure that for 15,000 miles I got $225 in discounts. For me that's just as good as the free ticket at 25,000 miles because I would've used that for the DEN-MCO anyway. It's like I got it 10,000 miles early.

 

[Waseller77]

This is a great deal for someone travelling before June! I just checked out the terms on United's website and travel must be complete by June 14, 2007 using these certificates.

 

[n2mm]

This is a great deal for someone travelling before June! I just checked out the terms on United's website and travel must be complete by June 14, 2007 using these certificates.

Yes I saw the short deadline to use them too. I'm still thinking about doing this myself. I just wish United/TED would offer some good deals. I would pay the standard price for my May trip if the times were half way decent.

 

[Fionasmommy]

This is a great deal for someone travelling before June! I just checked out the terms on United's website and travel must be complete by June 14, 2007 using these certificates.

Yes I saw the short deadline to use them too. I'm still thinking about doing this myself. I just wish United/TED would offer some good deals. I would pay the standard price for my May trip if the times were half way decent.

You're both absolutely right - I overloooked that because my dates already fell within the redemption period. I just edited to OP to reflect the deadline - thank for the heads up!

n2mm - keep checking back! The fare for the flights I wanted went down by $50 in about a week - you might get lucky too! It probably is easier from Denver though, because we're a United hub so there are more flights to choose from. I did pay the full fare to fly United on our last trip, and I still felt that it was worth the price because it was non-stop and we could utilize resort airline check-in for the return. I love that service!!