{"id":388591,"date":"2026-03-18T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/loyalty-program-change-united-airlines-passengers-discussing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:00:17","slug":"the-brand-new-loyalty-program-change-that-united-airlines-passengers-are-discussing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=388591","title":{"rendered":"The Brand-New Loyalty Program Change That United Airlines Passengers Are Discussing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, airlines have increasingly refined their loyalty programs to reward their most valuable passengers, and in 2026, another major change is prompting discussion among frequent flyers of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>. The carrier has announced a set of updates to its <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262743\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mileageplus\/\"  >MileagePlus<\/a><\/span> program that significantly reshape how passengers can earn and redeem miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What changes might be happening at the Star Alliance carrier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,995,1867,5145,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-787","category-mileageplus","category-star-alliance","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388592,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388591\/revisions\/388592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}