[Expired] Spend $25 & Earn Up to 1,000 Miles From Airline Shopping Portals

- UPDATED: June 12, 2022

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Airline shopping portals are a great way to earn some extra miles on online shopping that you were planning to do anyway.

At times, though, it can be easy to forget to click through a shopping portal first to make sure you earn extra miles. To help make things easier, many airline programs have built a button, which is effectively a browser plugin, that will prompt you to activate the shopping portal when you visit an eligible website.

Now, you can even score some extra miles after downloading one of these buttons and making a purchase. Here are the details!

Get Up to 1,000 Miles With Airline Shopping Portals

Through June 12, 2022, you can earn up to 1,000 miles with 5 different shopping programs just for downloading the program’s shopping portal button and completing a purchase of at least $25. Here are the eligible programs:

Alaska Airlines — Download the button, spend $25, get 1,000 bonus miles (expires June 11)
- Upgraded Points Valuation: $18
American Airlines – Download the button, spend $25, get 1,000 bonus miles (expires June 12)
- Upgraded Points Valuation: $14
Delta Air Lines – Download the button, spend $100, get 500 bonus miles (expires June 10)
- Upgraded Points Valuation: $5
Southwest Airlines – Download the button, spend $25, get 1,000 bonus miles (expires June 10)
- Upgraded Points Valuation: $13
United Airlines — Download the button, spend $25, get 1,000 bonus miles (expires June 11)
- Upgraded Points Valuation: $13

Hot Tip: Keep in mind that if you’ve used one of these shopping portals before but have never downloaded the button as a browser plugin, you’re still eligible for the bonus miles!

How Shopping Portal Buttons Work

Alaska shopping portal button — Image Credit: Alaska Airlines

After heading to the page of the program you’re interested in and clicking Get the Button, that program’s button will be downloaded as a plugin for the browser you are using.

Then, each time you visit a website that partners with that shopping portal, you’ll be prompted to activate the shopping portal by the click of a button, instead of having to go through the shopping portal’s website first.

Example Retailers

United shopping portal retailers — There are many popular online retailers where you can earn additional miles. Image Credit: United

While available retailers and earning rates may vary by site, here is a sample of popular bonus mile-earning opportunities via the United MileagePlus Shopping site:

Best Buy — 0.5 miles per $1
Grubhub — 150 miles for your first purchase
Home Depot — up to 2 miles per $1
Macy’s — up to 3 miles per $1
Nike — 1 mile per $1
Staples — 1 mile per $1
Walgreens — 1 mile per $1
Walmart — 0.5 miles per $1

Hot Tip: Are airline shopping portals the best way to earn extra cash-back on your online purchases? Visit our guide to CashBack Monitor to learn how to maximize your points when shopping online.

Final Thoughts

A shopping portal button is pretty simple, but it truly makes the experience so much easier by not needing to manually check to see if a store is included in a program each time you shop. Given that, in addition to improving the online shopping experience, now you’ll also get a bonus of 1,000 miles to boot!