use united cash plus miles to book award tickets

United airlines Mileage Plus frequent flyers can book one-way awards tickets or use a combination of miles and cash for a roundtrip flight, hotel stay, or car rental. With Mileage Plus Miles & Money Awards, members have more ways to use miles and greater flexibility than ever before.

If you are short of miles—you can use cash plus miles to book plane tickets. For example, instead of paying 25,000 points for a roundtrip domestic Economy Saver Award ticket, you may be able to user fewer miles and make up the difference with cash.

Miles & Money Awards are available on Saver and Standard awards in all classes of service. They are not offered on Star Alliance Awards or awards on other partner airlines.

Miles & Money Awards may not be offered on every United/United Express flight to every destination.
“Our members are looking for more ways to get the most out of their hard-earned miles, and we continue to deliver new awards that enable them to do just that,” said Robert Sahadevan, vice president – Mileage Plus. “Our new cash plus miles Awards give our members the flexibility to use their miles – and fewer of them – by providing more options to book the type of travel they want.”

If a member only needs a one-way ticket, Mileage Plus’ One-Way Awards are available for half the miles of a roundtrip award (starting at 12,500 miles for a domestic Saver Award) on United or United Express-operated flights. For members who are low on miles or just looking for more ways to use the miles they have, Miles & Money Awards let them book a roundtrip flight, hotel stay or car rental for fewer miles and make up the difference in cash. For example, members can fly roundtrip for 10,000 miles + $100. * More information about One-Way Awards and Miles & Money Awards is available at www.mileageplus.com.
united airlines program improvements in the past six months, including the elimination of last-minute award booking fees and the introduction of Hotel and Car Awards, give members even more opportunities to use their Mileage Plus miles.