United Airlines customers severely impacted by recent flight delays and cancellations will receive complimentary miles from the Chicago-based airline.
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United Airlines customers severely impacted by recent flight disruptions will receive 30,000 complimentary miles from the airline.said in a July 1 email obtained by FOX Business that the free Mileage Plus miles it was giving affected customers and each other person on their flight reservation could go toward "flights, Wi-Fi, onboard food and drinks, seat upgrades and more." Another email detailing the procedure to redeem the free miles will come soon, according to the message.
The complementary miles were offered to travelers who had to deal with getting delayed to the following day or never arriving at their final destination as part of a flight scheduled between June 24-30, according to United. A United Airlines Boeing 787 taxis as a United Airlines Boeing 767 lands at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, February 7, 2015.
The airline had thousands of flight cancellations and delays last week. In the email about the 30,000 miles, United attributed the "rough experience" many of its customers faced in connection to those disruptions to "really bad weather, air traffic control issues and some of our own operational challenges."
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