Why United Airlines Miles Won't Expire Anymore

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When you start to collect miles and points on different airlines, it can be challenging to remember which ones expire and when. You can always top the accounts off by using shopping portals, but you have to actually do it before your points expire. You can check out my prior post when I accidentally let 8,000 United miles expire. Quite a bummer!
Some programs like United were letting you buy back expired points, but it was hardly worth it unless you had quite a haul that expired.

Now United is joining Jet Blue and Delta and getting rid of expiration dates entirely.
Starting today, your United miles will never expire. Woohoo!

Here are the rules for some other airlines:

• American Airlines miles still expire after 18 months of inactivity. 
• Southwest and Alaska expire after two years of inactivity. 

Interesting fact, 25% of airline miles go unused or expire and billions of dollars of miles never get used at all. If you don't fly, you can redeem miles and points for products, gift cards and more through the airline's website. You will get a better value if you use them for airline tickets, but it's better than not using them at all.
So put those miles to work for you!