Travel Rewards Card

[LadyStache]

Here is a great opportunity to earn bonus miles for signing up for a new credit card. It's the United MileagePlus Explorer card. You can earn up to 40,000 bonus miles with little effort if you sign up with the link below (full disclosure: I will earn 5,000 bonus miles for each of the first 10 people who sign up using my link before Nov 28th)

https://applynow.chase.com/FlexAppWeb/renderApp.do?PID=CFFD2&SPID=F99T&CELL=6JBH&MSC=1506892349

Bonus Miles:
30,000 bonus miles after spending $1000 in the first 3 months (if you have not received a card member bonus in the past 24 months)
5,000 bonus miles after you get and use the card by April 30, 2015
5,000 bonus miles when you add an authorized user and make a purchase in the first 3 months

2 miles per dollar on purchases through United; 1 mile per dollar on all other purchases

Travel benefits for tickets booked using the card:
Free first checked bag
Priority boarding
No foreign transaction fees

The annual fee is waived for the first year, then $95 for subsequent years if you do not cancel.

[schimt]

For this type of card, do you lose the rewards if you don't renew next year, but didn't use the rewards yet?

[LadyStache]

If you plan to do that, first you would need to create a free United MileagePlus account (this is a separate account from the cc) and then link your United Airlines MileagePlus account to your United MileagePlus Explorer credit card account when you sign up. The rewards from the affiliated Explorer credit card go to the United Airlines MileagePlus account after they are earned (I think they may post once a month or so). As long as you have the Explorer credit card, the miles in your United Airlines account will not expire. If you have the United Airlines account only (without the Explorer credit card), your miles will not expire until the 18th month of account inactivity. I copied relevant info from the United website about mileage expiration for United Airline miles in case that helps.

Mileage expiration

10. Any member who fails at any time to engage in account activity for a period of eighteen (18) consecutive months is subject to termination of such member’s membership and/or forfeiture of all accrued mileage as of the last day of the 18th month. Activity includes (without limitation) earning flight miles on United or earning or redeeming miles with a MileagePlus partner (as defined in Rule 12), redeeming miles for award travel, buying miles or transferring miles.

27. Mileage accrued in a member's account shall be maintained in the account until it is redeemed for an award or until it expires, whichever occurs first.

28. Mileage accrued shall only be subject to expiration on the last day of the eighteen (18) months after the last account activity in the member’s account. Activity includes flying, using your MileagePlus credit card and more (see rule 10). In cases where mileage is for any reason removed from an account, such as for the redemption of awards, and later returned, the return of the mileage to the account shall not count as account activity.