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United Airlines now allows frequent flyers to pool miles in a joint account.
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Miles pooled into the joint account can’t be transferred back to individual accounts.
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JetBlue and Frontier previously launched similar miles-pooling programs.
United Airlines now allows frequent flyers to pool miles with four other people in a joint account, the airline said in a press release on Thursday.
United said in the press release that MileagePlus members can start combining their miles into a joint account so long as each person is a member of the loyalty program — but there is a catch.
Luc Bondar, the COO of United’s MileagePlus program, told CNBC that miles pooled into the joint account cannot be transferred back into individual accounts.
How it works is that one MileagePlus member over the age of 18 — or what United calls the “pool leader” — can invite four other members to pool miles into the account, the airline said. The four other members can be of any age, per the press release.
Each member…
