United MileagePlus award alerts

What a United MileagePlus award alert watches

AwardTool re-checks the award space it covers and emails you when seats open. These figures summarize its cached searches from the last 30 days.

• An alert's booking-program filter watches award space you can book with United MileagePlus; pick one or more programs per alert.
• It watches by route and booking program, not by the airline that operates the flight. AwardTool identifies airlines by the marketing carrier that sells the flight.
• The one airline filter excludes a marketing carrier you don't want; there is no operating-carrier filter.

How to set up a United MileagePlus award alert

The button above opens the alert form in the app with these choices filled in; you can change any of them before saving. Creating an alert needs a free AwardTool account.

1. Pick the route to watch — one of the major United MileagePlus routes below, or your own origin and destination.
2. Keep United MileagePlus as the booking program, or add others to compare.
3. Choose your cabins and any limits: maximum points, maximum taxes, stops, and the other filters below.
4. Save the alert and AwardTool emails you when matching award space appears.

Filters you can set on an alert

An award alert supports these filters. Points and taxes are per passenger, one way, in the booking program's own currency and in US dollars.

• Cabins — economy, premium economy, business or first.
• Booking programs — the loyalty programs that may price the award.
• Maximum points — skip awards priced above your ceiling.
• Maximum taxes and fees.
• Stops — nonstop only, or up to a number of stops.
• Mixed-cabin itineraries — include or exclude awards flown partly in a lower cabin.
• Flight number.
• Departure and arrival time windows.
• Maximum trip duration.
• Co-branded card (cardmember) award pricing.
• Airlines to exclude — hide a marketing carrier you don't want.
• Selected airports only, when you pick specific airports to watch.

"Airlines to exclude" is the one airline filter: it removes a marketing carrier from the results. There is no filter that keeps only one operating airline.

Major United MileagePlus routes to watch

United MileagePlus routes with the most open award dates AwardTool saw in the last 30 days. Open a route for its calendar, or start an alert from the button above.

Airlines seen on United MileagePlus awards

Marketing carriers that appeared on this program's award itineraries in the last 30 days. An alert cannot require one airline, but it can exclude airlines you don't want.

• United Airlines — 13,676 routes
• Air Canada — 10,244 routes
• Lufthansa — 9,822 routes
• SWISS — 8,499 routes
• Turkish Airlines — 8,300 routes
• JetBlue — 7,792 routes
• Austrian — 6,522 routes
• Lufthansa City Airlines — 6,408 routes
• Singapore Airlines — 6,369 routes
• Brussels Airlines — 5,988 routes
• Aer Lingus — 5,379 routes
• LOT Polish Airlines — 5,252 routes
• TAP Portugal — 5,120 routes
• ITA Airways — 5,056 routes
• Air Dolomiti — 4,720 routes
• Eurowings Discover — 4,375 routes
• Eurowings — 3,949 routes
• EVA Air — 3,833 routes
• Ethiopian Airlines — 3,490 routes
• ANA — 3,265 routes
• Aegean Airlines — 2,703 routes
• Air China — 2,697 routes
• Air India — 2,477 routes
• Juneyao Airlines — 2,084 routes
• Asiana Airlines — 1,938 routes
• Shenzhen Airlines — 1,753 routes
• Croatia Airlines — 1,511 routes
• COPA Airlines — 1,114 routes
• Avianca — 980 routes
• Virgin Australia — 843 routes
• Air New Zealand — 651 routes
• Azul Brazilian Airlines — 560 routes
• Emirates — 542 routes
• flydubai — 444 routes
• South African Airways — 408 routes
• Airlink — 391 routes
• Alaska Airlines — 327 routes

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