This could make redeeming miles a little bit easier
Booking air travel using miles can be, depending on the circumstances, eminently satisfying or insidiously frustrating. If you’ve amassed enough miles to book a dream vacation free of charge, you might well feel the added boost that comes from making a system work. If you don’t quite have enough miles to make a desired trip click into place, though, you might find yourself going full Richard III and lamenting the lack of a few hundred more miles.
All of which makes a recent announcement from United especially enticing. The short version is that the airline is allowing groups of friends or family members to pool their miles into a supply that all group members can draw from. (United’s announcement makes it clear that individual members will not see a change in their Premier status as a result.) Groups can be up to five people in size, and…