New United Excursionist One Way Perk

United Airlines launched its excursionist perk in October 2016, but it's just starting to catch on. And it's an amazing deal! The idea is that you can book multi city flights and get one leg for FREE. You can check it out here, but the details are as follows from United Airlines website. 

• The Excursionist Perk cannot be in the MileagePlus defined region where your travel originates. (For example, if your journey begins in North America, you will only receive the Excursionist Perk if travel is within a region outside of North America.)
• Travel must end in the same MileagePlus defined region where travel originates.
• The origin and destination of the Excursionist Perk is within a single MileagePlus defined region.
• The cabin of service and award type of the free one-way award is the same or lower than the one-way award preceding it.
• If two or more one-way awards qualify for this benefit, only the first occurrence will be free.

Click here for the list of United Airlines regions

Here are the steps, choose multi city and book an award flight. 

Step 2 - find the flight that works, if you qualify for excursionist fare, the leg of the flight will be marked 0 miles. 

Step 3 - Review and purchase

This is a great option and could save you hundreds of dollars if you want to check out more than one city in a region. Only catch is that you must book with United miles on United flights and all legs must be in the same class.  Let me know how you use this amazing perk!