{"id":265876,"date":"2017-12-06T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265876"},"modified":"2017-12-06T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:00:55","slug":"united-airlines-named-best-overall-frequent-flyer-program-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/united-airlines-named-best-overall-frequent-flyer-program-world\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines named best overall frequent flyer program in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GUAM<\/strong>\u2014For the 14th consecutive year, readers of Global Traveler, a monthly publication written exclusively for frequent business and luxury travelers, voted United\u2019s MileagePlus loyalty program the Best Overall Frequent Flyer Program in the world. <\/p>\n<p>United has been recognized with this distinction every year since the inception of the GT Tested Reader Survey in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In the survey completed by frequent business and luxury travelers, United\u2019s MileagePlus program was also named the Best Frequent-Flyer Bonus Program for the fifth consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>The United MileagePlus Club Card from Chase was named Best Credit Card and Best Credit Card Rewards Program, both for the sixth consecutive year. <\/p>\n<p>The United MileagePlus Explorer Card from Chase won for Best Frequent-Flyer Affinity Credit Card Redemption for the fifth consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is especially exciting about these honors is that they are awarded by travelers, and therefore a testament to our commitment to providing MileagePlus members and credit card holders with the industry-leading experience,\u201d said Luc Bondar, United\u2019s vice president, Loyalty. \u201cIt is our goal to provide a loyalty program that recognizes and rewards all of our members while offering a breadth of valuable earning and redemption opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MileagePlus members earn award miles by flying United, United Express, Star Alliance airlines or other airline partners, and by purchasing products or services from partners around the globe. Members enjoy a variety of options for using those award miles, including to pay for travel, hotel stays, car rentals and merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>Through MileagePlus Exclusives, members are able to use their miles on unique and memorable experiences with a VIP touch across the widest range of mileage levels. Recent examples of MileagePlus Exclusives include: an auction for parts of the airline\u2019s now retired iconic 747 fleet, dinner at world-renowned restaurants, and club level and luxury suites packages for a variety of sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>Global Traveler also awarded United for Best International First Class Champagne for the Joseph Perrier Brut Cuv\u00e9e Royale 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally this week, the United TravelBank Card from Chase was selected as the 2017 Mega Award winner for Excellence in Co-Brands at Mega Event 2017, a travel industry conference. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUAM\u2014For the 14th consecutive year, readers of Global Traveler, a monthly publication written exclusively for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[56,9108,51,181],"class_list":["post-265876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-3","tag-global-traveler","tag-guam","tag-united-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}