Chicago: United Airlines is offering its frequent flyers a chance to enter the airline’s ‘Your Shot to Fly’ sweepstakes by uploading their vaccination records. Lucky winners will get the chance to avail themselves of a year’s worth of free flights, with other prizes up for grabs as well, including free roundtrip tickets and cash prizes.

To support the national push for vaccination, United Airlines is going to run this contest that will reward five MileagePlus members with the grand prize – a year’s travel with a companion, in any class of service, to any United destination worldwide.

Also, grand prize winners will receive a sum of USD 275,000, presumably to fund the rest of their vacations. Looking closer into the fine print, the years’ worth of free flights is ‘limited to 26 roundtrip flights ‘, adding up to a new roundtrip every two weeks.

In addition to the grand prize, United is giving out 30 ‘First Prize’ rewards. Winners will receive one roundtrip flight for two, along with USD 7,700. As with the grand prize, each roundtrip fare can be booked on any class of service to any destination worldwide served by United.

United’s sweepstakes look to encourage Americans to get their COVID jabs as part of an effort to support President Biden’s national campaign. After a gradual decline in national vaccination rates by early May, Biden announced the country’s goal to have 70 percent of adults vaccinated by the Fourth of July.

Scott Kirby, the CEO, United, said, “We’re proud to do our part to incentivize people to get their shot. Thanks to the vaccine, more and more destinations are opening up for travel – and we know our customers are eager to fly. We’re excited to give people one more reason to get vaccinated so they can reunite with friends and family or take that long-awaited vacation which all could be just one shot away.”