Other than credit card sign-on bonuses, I am convinced that shopping portals and things like the Mileage Plus X app are the opportunities to earn tons of miles with fairly little effort. United ran a similar promotion for Father’s day, this time its Back to School on Mileage Plus X app.

Getting Back to School on Mileage Plus X app

To find the Back to School Promotion you must first go into catalog:

From there you’ll want to look for Back to School Promotion:

There you’ll see the options for promotion:

All of the stores with promotions are as follows:

• Athleta – 10x
• Banana Republic – 10x
• Bath & Body Works – 10x
• Buca di Beppo – 8x
• Chilli’s – 8x
• Cold Stone Creamery – 8x
• Dell.com – 2x 
• eBay – 4x
• Gap – 10x
• JCPenney – 6x
• Kohl’s – 4x
• Krispy Kreme – 8x
• Nike – 10x
• OfficeMax – 8x
• Old Navy – 10x
• Sears – 6x
• Ulta Beauty – 8x
• Xbox – 8x

Wrapping up

Leveraging Back to School on Mileage Plus X app is a great opportunity to increase your United Mileage Plus balances. There’s also been cases where you can get even more value depending on which credit card you use – search “MileagePlusX” on the FrequentMiler Laboratory to get some ideas.

Overall – you can generate a bunch of miles quickly, especially when you look at the amount of 10x opportunities.

Will you be leveraging this promotion? What store are you really happy to see on it?