Already got my United 1K kit!

Updated: June 19, 2021

Published: December 1, 2009

Wow, for a second I thought it was April 1. No, not because someone was playing a bad joke on me, but rather because that’s when my 1K kit from the previous year usually arrives in my mailbox. 😉

Anyway, if my calendar isn’t lying to me December just started, and I already have my 1K card good through 2011! While it’s not an extravagant kit, I’m just happy to have my card this early. As usual it came with ten drink chits, a few “Going the Extra Mile” certificates, and some advertisements. I wish United would just have “currency coupons” instead of drink chits which could be used for snackboxes, sandwiches, etc., but at the same time I usually get sandwiches and snacks for free anyway.

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Now you wanna know what really hurts? The mileage meter (in the picture above)! Notice how it stops at “1K status.” Now I realize my balance is so big that it would go off the page, but seriously, how about stroking my ego just a bit and making my jumbo jet go off the page? 😉

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Stormy Guest

December 6, 2009, 2:01 pm

Do you use your card often? I only use mine to get through security when I fly on an airline I don't have much status with which is not very often.

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Jack Guest

December 2, 2009, 1:57 pm

@imm2b - Wow, I wants me one of them salads. If I could get a salad for all the video issues on USAir, I'd be turning in salad !! Wait... US Air has no video. Or sound. Or power. @BMI .... That's funny. I also got my new Gold kit this last week (fancy black box with decent cards. Lanyards are cheap plastic instead of the blue & metal they had last year). However I ask the same question: Who cares since the status will expire 2/10 anyway and I haven't posted a single mile to the account this year? @United: Turned 1K in Aug. Haven't received my 1K kit from them. Have asked twice, have been told it was mailed, twice. Nada. Reminds me, I never got a Premier Exec kit either. In fact, I don't have any UA credentials ..... 'cept for that classy Chase credit card and of course the RCC pack somehow arrives yearly like clockwork (Magic, I tell ya, that they pull over in Elk Grove in those white buildings, with the postal wizard..). @American. Of course I've received EXP kits yearly, almost immediately after qualifying.

imm2b Guest

December 2, 2009, 12:42 pm

Lucky - I agreed about the usefulness of the chits for non-drinkers. On my flight last week ORD-SFO, I asked to exchange a chit for BOB. The FA said she can't do it, but, she asked me what I wanted, she handed me a snack box gratis. The 2 FAs working on my aisle in Y were amazingly nice, the best I have ever seen on UA in Y, and it's not because she gave me a free box. :-). I saw her gave a lady a couple rows up a free salad for a video problem (we're on 777's).

German Expat Member

December 2, 2009, 9:48 am

Don't fret about the mileage meter. Mine also stops at 1K and I am GS :-)

nmmercer Guest

December 2, 2009, 12:38 am

I'll take those drink chits off your hands if they bother you so much. ;) My fiancee received his 2P kit today and he was thrilled, he said, "wow, you can redeem miles with hotel and car partners!" - ha! Nothing in there about award surchages but I guess that wouldn't be listed as an "Exciting enhancement to the 2010 Mileage Plus program"...

Already got my United 1K kit!

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