United Airlines Targeted Spend Bonus

United's been on a role the last couple of weeks with the announcement of a new business class experience as well as an upgraded offer on their co-branded Chase credit card.

United's also out with a targeted spend promotion which could be fairly lucrative depending not the offer you receive.

Go to this site, enter your United MileagePlus number and you'll be taken to the page with your offer.  Note that flights purchased prior to registration won't count and then promotional period runs through 11/30/16. You'll then receive an email confirming registration and your specific offer.

Both Emily and I received the same offer on our MileagePlus accounts.  

• Spend $2,500 and earn 10,000 bonus miles
• Spend $3,000 total and earn 25,000 bonus miles
• Spend $4,500 total and earn 50,000 bonus miles

We're both unlikely to hit the lowest milestone as $2,500 in spend/flying is a lot.  That said, this is a pretty rich promotion.  At the high end, you're earning north of 11 miles per dollar spent.  Add that to (at least) 2x from credit card spend and 7x (for me as a United Silver) and I'd be earning 20 miles per dollar spent in terms of RDM (redeemable miles).  At my valuation of ~2 cents/United mile, that's 40% off the $4,500 spend in the form of United miles for future travel - not a bad deal at all.

It's definitely worth checking your offer and registration.  There are multiple offers - some with much lower spend requirements.