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Every time you purchase an eligible fare and travel on flights operated by United Airlines or United’s regional partners, you earn miles that are deposited into your MileagePlus® account for award travel and credit toward Premier® qualification.
Earning Miles
- Earn MileagePlus miles on all qualifying United and United Express flights. You'll earn miles according to the booking class that you purchase.
- All Premier members earn a minimum of 500 award miles and 500 Premier status miles on United and United Express flights
- The miles you earn on United and United Express qualify toward MileagePlus Premier status, with bonus Premier qualifying miles for paid United Global FirstSM, United First®, United BusinessFirst®, United Business® or full-fare United Economy® flights.
- It's easy to earn miles for your flight. Simply provide your MileagePlus number when you make your reservation, and make sure that it appears on your boarding pass at check-in. The miles you earn will credit to your account 48 hours after your travel is completed.
- Use the Mileage Calculator below to determine how many miles you can earn flying United.
- Save your boarding pass until your flight miles have been credited to your account. Learn more about Requesting Mileage Credit for United and partner airlines.
| Eligible United fare classes |
Award mile earnings |
MileagePlus Premier earnings |
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| Purchased fare class |
Base award miles
(including class of service bonus) |
Premier qualifying miles (PQM) |
Premier qualifying segments (PQS) |
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| F, A (3-cabin Global First) |
250% |
150% |
1.5 |
| F, A (all other) |
175% |
150% |
1.5 |
| J, C, D |
175% |
150% |
1.5 |
| Z, P |
150% |
150% |
1.5 |
| Y, B |
125% |
150% |
1.5 |
| M, E, U, H, Q, V, W, S, T, L, K, G, N |
100% |
100% |
1 |
Exceptions
- If you purchase a ticket on a flight that is marketed by United but operated by another airline (known as a code-share flight), the operating airline determines how many miles you earn for your flight.
- Note that the booking class that appears on your ticket may differ from the booking class that the operating airline uses to determine flight miles earned.
- MileagePlus miles may not be earned on certain United Airlines and MileagePlus partner airline tickets. These include, but are not limited to:
- United tickets purchased and used in violation of United’s Contract of Carriage, fare tariffs and MileagePlus Program.
- All free travel, including MileagePlus award travel.
- Unpublished charter flights.
- Industry-free or industry-reduced rate tickets.
- Promotion certificates.
- Unpublished fares, such as priceline.com and Hotwire.
- Tickets, products or services purchased and used in violation of the terms and conditions applicable to United’s MileagePlus partners.
United Airlines reserves the right to exclude certain fares, programs and routes from earning MileagePlus credit.
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- MILEAGE CALCULATOR
Find out approximately how many MileagePlus award miles you can earn on United flights.
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This mileage calculator is for estimating purposes only. Actual mileage posting will be determined by the purchased ticket routing, fare class, Premier status, residency and ticket issue date.
Premier benefits
If you’re a MileagePlus Premier member, you’ll be recognized as a Premier member when flying when flying United and any other Star Alliance airline. You'll also earn applicable bonus award miles.
Using miles
You have options when it comes to using your miles.
- Standard Awards enable you to fly whenever seats are available for the flight and class of service you want.
- Saver Awards require fewer miles, but may not be available for all flights.
- All United awards are one way, which means you can fly a Saver Award for one direction of travel and return using a Standard Award. You can also choose a different class of service for each direction.
- See our award chart to find out how many miles you'll need, depending on class of service and region of travel.
- Star Alliance Awards enable you to use your MileagePlus miles for award travel to more than 1,000 destinations worldwide, on any Star Alliance airline.
- You can use miles to fly one way or roundtrip.
- You can use MileagePlus Upgrade Awards to upgrade to the next class of service on United and United Express. Upgrade Awards are also available on other Star Alliance airlines. Find complete details at our Star Alliance Upgrade Awards page.
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