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This summer, travel to Canada for only 20,000 Mileage Plus miles when you book your travel at www.united.com by June 21, 2009

-Economy Saver Awards are available for 20,000 Mileage Plus miles instead of 25,000
-Offer valid for travel between the 48 contiguous United States and Canada

-Ticketing period: Now through June 21, 2009
-Travel period: Now through September 2, 2009
-Blackout dates: July 2, 2009 – July 6, 2009
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Economy Saver Awards available for 40,000 miles instead of 55,000
Travel now through May 14, 2009, except blackout dates April 6 through April 15, 2009

It now takes fewer redeemable miles for qualifying roundtrip travel between the United States and Europe on any United Airlines-marketed and operated flight.

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“Who is to blame for the recent series of frequent-flier-program “enhancements” that have made it increasingly difficult to redeem miles for “award” tickets and reduced membership benefits?

Many of us in the press and elsewhere have often attributed those changes to the troubles of the industry caused by fuel-price fluctuations and the global economic crisis.

However, a closer look at the activities of most major U.S. carriers’ loyalty schemes by airline experts suggests that the main reason for those programs’ need to tighten their belts is the way they have been run for years.

“Frequent-flier programs are major businesses, but unfortunately, in most cases, they haven’t been run as businesses,” said Jay Sorensen, president of IdeaWorks, an airline consulting firm. “There is fiscal recklessness, and the outcome for the consumer is not attractive.”

U.S. airline programs are subsidiaries or divisions of the companies that own the respective carriers. They are usually profitable, even if the rest of the company is not, and their profitability is due in large part to their co-branded credit cards, Mr. Sorensen said.

This is where the problems began years ago, he added. The airline programs “have had a windfall of cash that has landed in their laps. With that comes a tremendous amount of responsibility, and that’s what the carriers have forgotten.”

They receive billions of dollars from selling miles to credit-card issuers, but they don’t use enough of that money for the loyalty schemes’ benefit, choosing instead to “spread the wealth” and help out other parts of the company. Sometimes, the frequent-flier programs are left with insufficient funds to cover their own costs, such as mileage redemption for “award” tickets.

That’s the case with United Airlines, Mr. Sorensen said. Last year, its Mileage Plus program pre-sold miles worth about $1 billion to its credit-card partner Chase – a major chunk of its annual revenue.

As readers of this column might recall, United has been blocking access for Mileage Plus members to thousands of “award” seats made available by its partner-carriers in the global Star Alliance, making it difficult for many of the miles it sold to Chase to be redeemed for flights. United, which has to pay partners for “award” tickets, says the blocking was put in place because otherwise it would exceed the budget it has to cover those payments.

The airline hasn’t said why that budget hasn’t been increased, given the new miles it has encouraged its customers to amass – not only from Chase, but also through the recently invented “award accelerator,” which allows fliers to double and triple their miles for a fee.

Mr. Sorensen’s answer is that “the cash [from Chase] is gone – it’s been spent on fuel” and other expenses. “In a sane business, a good chunk of the cash should have been set aside for ‘award’ redemption,” he said. “There is a tsunami of miles on the books that can’t be used, and in difficult times, the consumer doesn’t always get served very well.”

Even though United increased the mileage required to redeem “awards” by as much as 40 percent earlier this month and halved the lifetime of unused miles to 18 months last year, the blocking of partner flights is still around.

All major U.S. carriers have either upped redemption requirements or are soon expected to do so. Some, such as Delta and Alaska Airlines, have created new “award” levels meant to mask the reduced availability of regular mileage seats and charge even more miles, and Delta has also introduced “award” booking fees.”( via www.washingtontimes.com  ) by Nicholas Kralev

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As a United College Plus® member, you can earn miles toward free travel on United flights and with Mileage Plus® partners. But you also have many exclusive bonus-mile opportunities available to you.
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