Buy United Airlines MileagePlus Miles with a 95% Bonus

Through February 28, 2025, you'll receive a bonus of up to 60% on your purchase of United Airlines MileagePlus miles. This could be a decent opportunity to up your MileagePlus balance for a savvy redemption.

It's worth mentioning that United Airlines is seemingly always selling miles. The airline offers near-monthly promotions to purchase miles throughout the year, so if you aren't a buyer here you'll likely have many more opportunities to do so in the coming months. Over the last few years, the steady offer we've seen to purchase MileagePlus miles has been with a 100% bonus, so this current offer while not the peak, is not far off.

Key Terms to Know

• Promotional offer valid between 8:00 a.m. CT on February 5, 2025, and 11:59 p.m. CT on February 28, 2025.
• You may purchase up to 200,000 miles per account per calendar year.
• Bonus miles count toward the 200,000-mile annual limit per account.
• The bonus thresholds are staggered:
  • You'll need to purchase 5,000 for the first bonus, of 35% more miles, to kick in.
  • Purchasing at least 20,000 miles comes with a 65% bonus
  • Purchasing 45,000 or more miles will net you 95% more bonus miles.
• Miles purchased are nonrefundable.
• Purchased miles do not count toward MileagePlus Premier® status.

I've bolded one bullet-point above to call attention to this term. Different from other loyalty programs, United MileagePlus will include the bonus in your annual purchase limit, thus it's important to be strategic when choosing which sales you want to participate in, so as to maximize the value of your dollar.

How Do You Purchase United MileagePlus Miles?

Purchasing MileagePlus miles is simple:

1. Visit united.com > Click 'MileagePlus' from the top menu > From the 'MileagePlus program' column of the pop-under menu, click "Buy, transfer of give miles,"

OR

Simply visit this link and select "Buy Miles".

2. You'll be prompted to login with your United credentials and on the next page, select 'Buy Miles.'

3. On the next page, you can select how many miles you'd like to purchase from the dropdown menus and follow the prompts to complete your transaction.

Maxing out this sale would net you 198,900 United MileagePlus miles at a cost of $3,570.

What are Some Good Uses of United Miles?

Redeeming your MileagePlus miles for United's premium business class - Polaris could be a great redemption option. Flying Polaris to Asia from the US will cost as few as 100,000 MileagePlus miles. Europe is even cheaper, starting at 80,000 miles.

Of course as a member of Star Alliance, United has access to award seating on fellow member airlines, as well as a handful of rogue partnerships with other airlines that span alliances.

You could fly Turkish Airlines in Business Class From the U.S. to Europe starting at 88,000 miles.

If you're departing out of Brazil (GRU), Africa is within reach for just 90,000 miles on South African Airways, as you use United miles to book business class seats from São Paulo to either Cape Town or Johannesburg.

Conclusion

If you plan to buy United miles with this promotion, you have until the February 28, 2025 to do so.

Feel free to share your favorite United MileagePlus redemption ideas in the comments!