Buy and AirBnb gift card in the app for the amount you need. Redeem the gift card in your AirBnb account BEFORE YOU BOOK. Get 2 miles per dollar (or whatever, they all fluctuate). For a while Amazon was two miles per dollar. We shifted all our household shopping into Amazon LOL. They got hip to it and now Amazon is like half a mile per dollar.

That sucks

You can get 2 Chase points for booking travel w/ their Sapphire cards already, and they convert 1:1 to United miles if you want, but are much more fungible too.

3 UR points per $ with the sapphire reserve

yep, why play these reindeer games with gift cards

some shariah compliant 'debt is bad' logic?

You used to be able to get Amazon gift cards directly with miles, but it was dropped as a partner a few months ago...

They're saying you earn United miles by booking Airbnb stays through the portal in the app. It's essentially another cashback website that provides miles instead of cash. It probably isn't worth it unless you can easily use United miles.

You don’t have to use the portal on the web. You can get a gift card from the app

Thanks, I didn't realize, though I can't edit my initial post anymore.