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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Redeeming United Airlines miles for VCR/DVD Player

With United Airlines and most airlines reducing their mileage expiration period to 18 months, I finally decided to redeem some of my UAL frequent flier miles. I didn’t want to redeem them again for another magazine subscription since we already have subscribed to too many magazines. Fortunately, United allowed redeeming mileage for merchandise for the elite members. I am not an elite member, however, since I had the United’s Mileage Plus credit card, I also qualified and was able to redeem 13,000 miles for a VCR-DVD Player. Shipping was free and the package arrived in about 4 weeks time.

I checked the price of the equipment at Amazon.com where it was selling for about $89 plus about $10 shipping. So it worked out to be about $0.008/mil. Typically, experts recommend that you sell/exchange miles for at least $0.02/mile. Although, I got less than what the experts would recommend, I still felt fine with the deal as we needed the player anyways and didn’t have to lose the miles which would have expired.

The link for mileage redemption is provided on the United Airlines' web site, or for direct link to redeeming UAL miles for merchandise, see:

UAL: Merchandise Rewards

For info and restrictions about United's Mileage Plus credit card, including up to 17,500 bonus UAL frequent flier miles and fee waiver for the first year, see:

United’s Mileage Plus Platinum Business credit card

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posted by Ruby @ 12:37 AM

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