United Airlines Amex offer – short haul booking? Hotels?

[Skywalker]

Evening, I see this offer is ending in the next few days or so and I would like to book something short haul – but I haven’t been able to successfully get the machine to work well enough to display partner airlines.

Has anyone had any success booking something with a destination other than the US?

Alternatively, has anyone successfully managed to book a hotel and trigger this offer (subdomain hotels.united.com)?

Thanks

[Blair Waldorf Salad]

United removed cash bookings for Star Alliance partner flights from its booking system (including its own phone agents) sometime during lockdown. Possibly because it was a revenue route leaking out of United for those holding United travel vouchers. You can still book partner award flights worldwide and pay the TFCs to United. If over £500 that might be a way to use the credit but you’d need significant amounts of United miles to begin with.

[Skywalker]

United removed cash bookings for Star Alliance partner flights from its booking system (including its own phone agents) sometime during lockdown. Possibly because it was a revenue route leaking out of United for those holding United travel vouchers.

Got it thanks and that explains a lot!

You can still book partner award flights worldwide and pay the TFCs to United. If over £500 that might be a way to use the credit but you’d need significant amounts of United miles to begin with.

I’m not a collector of United (or other partner) miles – I was just hoping to use this offer on the off-chance there was something cheap and relatively local to do.