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United Airlines and MileagePlus

United Airlines is a Star Alliance partner based in the United States. This article looks at how you can earn Avios on United flights, strangely!

Our guide on how to earn United MileagePlus miles from UK credit cards is here.

You can learn more about MileagePlus on the United website here.

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