What is the difference between award mileage balance and lifetime flight miles?

Mileage Balance are the miles in your account available for you to ‘spend’. Lifetime Flight Miles is a total of all the miles you’ve flown on United in your lifetime.

What does United lifetime miles mean?

Your lifetime flight mileage balance includes all United flight miles since you enrolled in MileagePlus. To bring everyone to the same starting point, on December 31, 2011, we re-calculated the lifetime mileage balance for all MileagePlus members to include additional EQM earned since enrolling in the program.

Do lifetime United flight miles expire?

United Airlines miles never expire, so you can freely earn miles and redeem the miles at anytime. You no longer have to worry about having qualifying activity every 18 months in order to keep your miles from expiring.

How do you get lifetime flight benefits?

Retirees enjoy lifetime travel privileges if they have worked for at least 10 years and if, when they retire, their age and years of service combine to at least 65.

Can you use United lifetime miles?

Lifetime miles are there because when you’ve achieved 1 million flown miles you get Premier Executive status for life. However, you cannot redeem these for free flights.

How do you get lifetime status on United?

United Million Miler Program You’ll earn lifetime Premier status when you qualify for the Million Miler Program. This is based on the actual distance flown on United and United Express flights. The level of lifetime status you’ll receive is based on the number of miles flown.

How do I stop my United miles from expiring?

How to Keep Your United MileagePlus Miles From Expiring

1. Take a Survey. It’s hard to believe, but you can earn United MileagePlus miles by taking surveys from MyPoints, e-Miles and OpinionMilesClub.
2. Swipe Your Credit Card.
3. Do Some Shopping.
4. Dine Out.
5. Take a Flight.
6. Drive.
7. Stay.
8. Book a Vacation or Cruise Package.

What is lifetime flight miles?

Lifetime miles are there because when you’ve achieved 1 million flown miles you get Premier Executive status for life. However, you cannot redeem these for free flights. There were miles you earned that you could use for free flights but because you left the account inactive for so long they got zeroed out.

Can I use my MileagePlus number for my wife?

Upgrade companions and sponsoring upgrades MileagePlus members can use a MileagePlus Upgrade Award for another traveler, and Premier members can use PlusPoints for someone else, even if they are not traveling on the same reservation.

How are MileagePlus miles calculated?

Standard United MileagePlus members earn 5x the cost of their ticket. So multiply the cost of your ticket by five and and you’ll get the number of miles you’ll earn for that flight. Elite members earn more, with the total miles equaling between 7x to 11x the cost of the ticket.

Do you get PQP for award travel?

Your PQP will be equal to award miles* earned divided by 5 if you’re flying on a preferred partner; for other MileagePlus partner airlines, it will be award miles earned divided by 6….Earning PQF and PQP on partner flights.