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So what do you get for having the card? These incredibly sweet benefits:
-Expanded award ticket availability
See DDMS for details, including here.
-Full United Club membership:
 This membership normally costs $395 per year for non-elites and it’s the only club network that can’t be accessed with the AMEX Platinum card or the Priority Pass lounge membership that comes with that card.
 A full United Club membership allows your entire family, or you and 2 guests, to enter hundreds of United and partner lounges worldwide, regardless of which airline you are flying of even if you are even flying at all!  Just show your membership card and you’re in!
 Here is a dreadfully incomplete list of lounges.  For example I’ve used my United membership card in Tel Aviv but they’re not listed. 
-Unlimited Airport Terminal Access:  **ENDING AUGUST 2016**
 Another very nice benefit of being a full United Club member is that you can access the secured part of the airport even when you’re not flying! When I pick someone up from the airport I often like to meet them at the gate and surprise them and go for a free drink in the club. All you have to do is go to the checkin counter, show your United Club membership, and request a gate pass to get past security to access the lounge.
 This will work in any airport where there is a United or USAirways lounge.
 With free wifi, snacks, drinks, newspapers, magazines, and even showers and free ironing services in some locations, you can even make the United Club your new office if you wanted to!
 Or you can just take your kid past security to see the planes taking off when not rushing to a flight, just like in the pre 9/11 days.
 See here more detailes about this benefit.
-1.5 United Miles per dollar spent everywhere!
 This blows every other card out of the water. You’ll get 1.5 miles for every dollar you spend anywhere.  No other card out there offers anything near this earning rate on everyday purchases!  Even the great Starwood card earns an effective 1.25 miles per dollar spent and those can’t be directly transferred to United (though they can be used on United via an airline like USAirways though they have harsher award policies), or the excellent Freedom card with checking offers 1.1 points per dollar spent on everyday purchases.
It’s not hard at all to get at least 1.8 cents value per mile (or much more than that), but at that rate it’s a 2.7% rebate on everything you buy. Considering you can pay your federal income taxes for a 1.89% fee, you will be able to load up on miles the next time you pay taxes and be excited about getting a discounted vacation out of it!  It would come out to a cost of just 1.26 cents per United mile, which is an incredible bargain (A business class ticket to Europe is 100,000 miles with no fuel surcharges, so you would be paying just $1,260 for business to Europe or $1,512 for business to Israel or the Maldives), plus you may even be able to deduct the 1.89% fee!
You also earn 2 miles per dollar on United purchases, though that is beat by the 2.14 points per dollar offered by Sapphire Preferred.
-2 Free Checked Bags:
 You and one companion automatically get 2 free checked bags on United worldwide. If you bring 2 bags each that’s a savings of $240 domestically or a savings of $400 to most international destinations (Europe, Israel, Argentina, Asia, Australia, etc) on a round-trip.
Not only that but additional cards are free, and although additional cardholders don’t automatically get 2 free bags like the primary cardholder, they will at the checkin counter by just showing the agent their United Club card. I have tested this out many times to confirm that this works. For a family of 4 with 8 checked bags you can split your itinerary into 2 after purchasing it, and then with 1 primary card and 1 additional card all 8 checked bags will be free, a savings of $480 domestically or $800 to most international destinations on a round-trip.
As the free luggage benefit can be attained by just showing a checkin agent your credit card, it will last until the card’s expiration date, which is 3 years from when you are approved.
-Premier Access and Boarding:
 You’ll get priority check-in, priority baggage handling (your bags will arrive ahead of the general public’s), and priority security line access.
 Plus you will board at the same time as Premier Silver elite members, ahead of Explorer cardholders, ahead of families with children, and way ahead of the general public, so that you will have plenty of space for your carry-ons.
-Waived Award Expedite/Close-In Fees:
 Those pesky $75 per passenger fees for booking an award ticket within 21 days (which is right when the best award availability starts to open up) are automatically waived for cardholders!
-No foreign Transaction fees:
 Get the best rates and pay no exchange rate fees.
-Hertz President's Circle Status:
 Cardmembers get President's Circle status at Hertz. After getting the card, register at https://hertzstatus.mileageplus.com/
-Hyatt Platinum Elite Status:
 Cardmembers get Platinum status at Hyatt, giving them free internet, upgrades, and bonus points. After getting the card, register at https://hyattstatus.mileageplus.com
As with the Explorer card, you also get these benefits:
-Primary CDW Rental Car Insurance:
 Almost all credit cards only offer secondary CDW rental car insurance, meaning that you must first file a claim with your personal insurance which will affect your rates. The United consumers cards cover accidents without the need to make any claim with your personal insurance and should definitely be your go-to card for all car rentals outside of Israel.
-Premier upgrades on award tickets:
 Premier members will be eligible for upgrades by being a United cardholder.
-Non-expiring miles:
 As long as you’re a United cardholder your miles will never expire.
-Last-Seat Standard Awards:
 As long as there’s a seat on the plane you’ll be able to use double miles for it. This level is now capacity controlled for general members.
-Other protections:
 -Travel Accident Insurance
 -Emergency Assistance
 -Trip Cancellation Insurance
 -Lost Luggage Reimbursement
 -Delayed Luggage Reimbursement
 -Delayed Trip Reimbursement
 -Extended Warranty Protection
 -Price Drop Protection
 -Purchase Protection
 -Return Protection
 -Worldwide Emergency Card Replacement


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Getting the AF waived After being approved for the card, you could SM and ask for the AF to be waived for the first year.

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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #640 on: December 19, 2012, 03:45:58 PM »
Anyone recently get the AF waived first yr?
Yes.
But you can also SM before applying to ask for that.
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #641 on: December 19, 2012, 03:46:51 PM »
Anyone recently get the AF waived first yr?
You can get it in bank branch

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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #642 on: December 19, 2012, 03:48:01 PM »
So i did both and got denied twice.  I suppose i can just sign my mom up and then sm. thanks by the way.

Putting a good 200k on the card this one or sapphire?
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #643 on: December 19, 2012, 03:49:42 PM »
beleive it or not tried my luck and called back united, and the rep told me its $75 because of the close in fee nothing about the change of date or airport.

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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #644 on: December 19, 2012, 04:03:19 PM »
beleive it or not tried my luck and called back united, and the rep told me its $75 because of the close in fee nothing about the change of date or airport.
Did they waive the fee or not?

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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #645 on: December 19, 2012, 04:04:52 PM »
You can get it in bank branch

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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #646 on: December 19, 2012, 04:10:02 PM »
So i did both and got denied twice.  I suppose i can just sign my mom up and then sm. thanks by the way.

Putting a good 200k on the card this one or sapphire?
Might be worth it just to SM them once more before applying to make sure it can get waived.  If they deny again you can always SM them after you get approved.
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #647 on: December 19, 2012, 05:10:51 PM »
no need to book with it. Secondary cards also get the benefit.

there web site stats that it needs to be purchased with card, can any one confirm that it does not matter ?
and secondary cards need purchasing with card ?
and what is deifinition of companion ?

my card stats  MILEAGEPLUS is it club or explorer ?
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #648 on: December 19, 2012, 05:15:02 PM »
there web site stats that it needs to be purchased with card, can any one confirm that it does not matter ?
and secondary cards need purchasing with card ?
and what is deifinition of companion ?
Secondary cards may only get the benefit if booked with it.
A companion is anyone you wana bring along
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #649 on: December 19, 2012, 05:22:57 PM »
Might be worth it just to SM them once more before applying to make sure it can get waived.  If they deny again you can always SM them after you get approved.

its really for my mom im still not sure to spend 200k on the sapphire preffered or get a club card for her

SP - 200000*1.9 (cents)=$3800
club - 200000*1.5 pp$ =300000 ?
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #650 on: December 19, 2012, 05:25:18 PM »
its really for my mom im still not sure to spend 200k on the sapphire preffered or get a club card for her

SP - 200000*1.9 (cents)=$3800
club - 200000*1.5 pp$ =300000 ?
Assuming a sale:
SP = $200,000 x 1.07ppd=214,000 x ~1.9cpp = $4,066
UAC = $200,000 x 1.5ppd=300,000 x ~1.65cpp = $4,950

If she'll use the points herself to fly in business class to TLV then the value in that case would be something like,
SP = $200,000 x 1.07ppd=214,000 x ~4cpp = $8,560
UAC = $200,000 x 1.5ppd=300,000 x ~4cpp = $12,000
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #651 on: December 19, 2012, 05:26:11 PM »
can anyone with this card please confirm what is your status when logging in?
I get,  MileagePlus Status Level:   Member
Shouldn't it be at least premier?

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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #652 on: December 19, 2012, 05:29:36 PM »
Assuming a sale:
SP = $200,000 x 1.07ppd=214,000 x ~1.9cpp = $4,066
UAC = $200,000 x 1.5ppd=300,000 x ~1.65cpp = $4,950

If she'll use the points herself to fly in business class to TLV then the value in that case would be something like,
SP = $200,000 x 1.07ppd=214,000 x ~4cpp = $8,560
UAC = $200,000 x 1.5ppd=300,000 x ~4cpp = $12,000
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why do they double/triple? and no she rather fly coach or sell em and buy tickets

is it hard to sell united points over sp? sorry i know its ot

crazy thing at the moment on the phone with chase - i decided to close my explorer and move my CL to the club and they said its a guaranteed acct and that a third party helped me sign up and that they cant move it over - obviuosly the lady feels horrible and is trying to move it over - though i did have issues when i signed up and they just hung up - she said it seems like some issue she asked me what i make and what i do and for how long im working :-) i do marketing! nice! ;D ;D
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #653 on: December 19, 2012, 06:05:15 PM »
how long do i have to cancel MileagePlus Club card to avoid annual fee?

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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #654 on: December 19, 2012, 06:31:59 PM »
So i did both and got denied twice.

Putting a good 200k on the card this one or sapphire?
What do you mean by "both"?
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #655 on: December 19, 2012, 06:54:11 PM »
What do you mean by "both"?

Tried sm-ing them and calling my local branch!
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #656 on: December 19, 2012, 06:59:14 PM »
my local branch!
Interesting. Does it differ by branch? my branch has it waived.
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #657 on: December 19, 2012, 07:12:24 PM »
Interesting. Does it differ by branch? my branch has it waived.

I am going to call my llwd hookup and what they can do.  How'd urs waive it? Meaning. They are claiming its not really them it goes thru united
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #658 on: December 19, 2012, 08:35:03 PM »
I don't know how the computerized system waives it, all I know is what I (and the banker) read on the banner where it says 'annual fee $350, waived for the first year'.
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Re: Introducing the new United MileagePlus Club Card
« Reply #659 on: December 19, 2012, 09:46:14 PM »
i flew on air canada today, and they told me that the card does not work for premier boarding.
a second agent told me the same thing