For United Airlines MileagePlus members the question of what airports are within 700 miles is actually a useful one. The carrier offers up a discount on “short” award flights within the Lower 48, Canada and Alaska where the distance between the end points is less than 700 miles. But there’s no good list of what all the available airports are. I didn’t think much of it until someone asked me about it on Twitter the other day:
https://twitter.com/iruvmattree/status/557128546372833280
And with a bit of spare time on my flight home from Europe yesterday I managed to cobble something together:
Click on any one of the airports (or just put an IATA code at the end of the URL) and you’ll get a zoomed in map showing all the airports within 700 miles of that one. Here’s what it looks like for Las Vegas:
There’s also a text list of the possible destinations off to the right of the map and clicking on any airport (icon or in the list) re-centers the search based on that source point.
I’m not entirely sure just how much value this offers, but at least one person was asking about it and it was easy (and fun) enough to put together so what the heck.
Enjoy!
Worth noting that there are likely a few airports on the list which United doesn’t actually serve. I based in on what the carrier publishes in its PDF timetable but that includes a number of airports which I know do not enjoy United service. I cleaned out what I knew to be bad but didn’t spend a ton of time on it. If you see one which needs to go just leave a note in the comments and I’ll clean it up.
Never miss another post: Sign up for email alerts and get only the content you want direct to your inbox.
why not just use ITA’s nearby function?
nevermind realized you cant search 700 miles only 500 or 1,000
This is also pretty quick to load and easy to switch cities, something I also do not typically see with ITA any more.
I must be missing something. Is there a link to your radius search function?
Clearly the jetlag is worse than I thought today; I did, in fact, neglect to include the link. I’ve added it now (just click on one of the images) and you should be all set.
😮
What is the redemption rate for 700 miles or less?
It is 10,000 points one-way instead of 12,500. Not a huge savings, but every little bit helps.
Indeed, it’s particularly nice when you’re flying a family of 4 (or more). ORD-IAD was 80,000 for four of us instead of 100,000. That’s pretty significant.
Seems to me this service is also quite useful for those using BA Avios miles….
Similar, but not exactly. Avios distance cutoffs are at different numbers and require non-stop flights rather than connections to work. I’ve already got an Avios Calculator but I’m working on a similar map version as well.
I’m getting a page not found error when clicking on the map?
Typo in one of the links; sorry. All better now.