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Until 12/31 you can get a 100% bonus when you buy, gift, or transfer USAirways miles.

You can’t buy, share, or gift miles unless your USAirways Dividend Miles account is 10 days old.

Officially you can get up to 50,000 bonus miles from each of these activities, although there are anecdotal reports that you may get the bonus past this point.

You can buy or gift 50,000 miles for $1,373 with all taxes and get a total of 100,000 miles with the bonus (1.37 cents per mile purchased)

You can transfer 50,000 miles for $567 with all taxes and the recipient will get 100,000 miles with the bonus (1.13 cents per mile “purchased”)

USAirways may not be the best airline, but they have a couple dozen great partners as part of the Star Alliance.

Their Star Alliance chart is actually quite good! For example a ticket from the US48 to Hawaii is now 40,000 miles in coach or 80,000 miles in first when using Continental or United miles.  When you use USAirways miles that same flight is only 35,000 miles in coach or 70,000 miles in first regardless of whether you fly on USAirways, Continental, or United.

You can also transfer miles from Starwood to USAirways at a 20,000:25,000 ratio.

Just beware that USAirways is notorious for their award fees and high baggage fees.

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If you fly the following amounts on USAirways between 10/01/09-12/25/09 you will get fast-tracked to elite status valid through 02/28/11.

Registration is not required.

It’s a cute twist on the double elite miles promo offered by AA, Continental, and United, but it seems to have been made without giving any thought to how it might upset current USAirways elite members who have been flying the whole year to attain elite status and don’t gain anything with the promo.

-Fly 7,500 miles or 10 segments and earn Silver Preferred status
-Fly 15,000 miles or 20 segments and earn Gold Preferred status
-Fly 22,500 miles or 30 segments and earn Platinum Preferred status
-Fly 30,000 miles or 40 segments and earn Chairman’s Preferred status

HT: Moshe S.

Update: Offer ends tomorrow (08/15)!

Originally posted on 07/21:

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USAirways normally sells miles for 2.5 cents per mile.  With this offer you will get them at 1.25 cents per mile, plus a $30 processing fee.  There is a limit of 50,000 bonus miles when you purchase 50,000 miles.

50,000 miles is enough for a ticket from the US-Europe on any Star Alliance carrier in coach, and 80,000 miles will get you to Europe in business class on any Star Alliance carrier.

For Israel it takes 80,000 in coach and 120,000 in business class.

Continental is leaving Skyteam for Star Alliance in October…

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Sign up by 08/31, the status will last 90 days.  It will take about a day for the status to take effect after registering for the offer.

Silver Preferred gets you and your companion space available upgrades, free choice seats, 500 mile minimum earning per segment, 2 free checked bags, 25% bonus miles, free standby, priority check-in/security/boarding lines, and Star Alliance Silver status with reciprocal benefits and waived baggage fees on other Star Alliance carriers.

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Update 2: Last day to transfer! USAirways makes it clear in the terms and conditions that as long as the hotel records your request to transfer by 07/31 that you will get the bonus miles as long as the transfer is complete by 09/30.

Update: Chaim reports that his bonus miles have posted! The promo runs through 07/31.

Originally posted on 05/23:

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USAirways is giving a 50% bonus on hotel points being transferred into USAirways miles through 07/31.

Normally 20,000 Starpoints transfers into 25,000 USAirways miles. With the promo 20,000 Starpoints will net 37,500 miles.

The 50% bonus miles post weekly.

USAirways begins flying nonstop from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv on July 1st.  They charge 80,000 miles in coach and 120,000 miles in business class for the round-trip.

USAirways also has a very competitive Star Alliance award chart which is far stronger than United’s due to lower rates and the lack of United’s evil Starnet alliance award flight blocking.

In addition you will be able to use USAirways miles on Continental when Continental joins the Star Alliance later this year.

So here’s the real question, what’s worth more to you, 1 Starpoint or 1.875 USAirways miles?
Vote now!

Related: Transfer 20,000 Starpoints Into 37,500 USAirways miles.

-Between US/Canada and the Caribbean: Normally 30K in coach or 60K in First/Business. Only 25K in coach or 50K in first/Business for flights between 09/01/09 and 09/30/09.

-Between North America and Europe: Normally 50K in coach or 80K in First/Business. Only 35K in coach or 60K in first/Business for flights between 01/15/10 and 02/28/10.

The full details are just under the regular award chart.

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I’m in awe of what USAir has just announced. Sure, times are desperate, but there’s only so much your frequent flyers will put up with before jumping ship.

In February USAir angered its frequent flyers by eliminating the industry standard 500-mile minimum mileage accrual in a move that was only matched by equally pathetic alliance partner United (as was predicted in that dansdeals.com posting)

Blessedly I have exactly 0 miles in my USAir mileage account-if you have any miles there the time to burn them is now!

Here is what has just been announced:

-Elimination of free beverages effective 08/01. Soda, juice, water, and coffee will now cost $2. Alcoholic beverages go from $5 to $7.

-Elimination of free checked luggage for tickets booked on or after 07/09. USAir/Star Alliance elites and their companions are exempt. 1st bag will be $15 each way, 2nd bag is $25 each way.

-Call center booking fees go from $15 to $25 (domestic) and $35 (international).

-Airport/ticket office booking fees go from $20 to $35 (domestic) and $45 (international).

-Award redemption fee effective 08/06 of $25 (domestic/Canada), $35 (Mexico/Carribean), and $50 (Hawaii/International)

-Elimination of the elite mileage bonus. Elite members on all airlines receive between a 25%-300% mileage bonus for flown miles depending on the airline and elite status. USAir is the 1st airline to eliminate this bonus.

In addition they will for all intents and purposes be eliminating their hub in Las Vegas, which joins Pittsburgh as the 2nd post-America West merger hub to close.  Let that be a lesson for anyone who believes that mergers don’t lead to the elimination of hubs…

Last week USeless Airways released the most ridiculous PR ever.

“As part of our continuing efforts to provide valuable benefits to our frequent flyers, US Airways is making a change to our Dividend Miles program…Beginning May 1, 2008, Dividend Miles will award the actual number of miles flown rather than a minimum number of miles flown for each segment. Also, members who redeem miles for award travel within 14-days of departure on usairways.com will be assessed a quick ticketing fee.”

I hate PR spin.

At any rate the quick ticketing isn’t a surprise, every other major airline charges that as well.

The surprise is the elimination of the 500-mile minimum.

How much savings can this possibly provide them?

Is it really worth angering your bread and butter Boston-LaGuardia shuttle flyers by giving them 180 miles instead of 500?

C’mon United, go after these shortsighted losers will ‘ya, you two would be just perfect together. Keep Continental my Continental!

This is just too much!

It was not a long time ago that airlines would file exclusive fares and offer lots of bonus miles for booking directly from their own website.

Now USeless Airways is charging a $5-$6 booking fee for booking on their half-baked website.

Don’t believe me?

Priceline and Hotwire do not charge any booking fee for regular tickets. Go ahead and price out a USAirways itinerary on those websites and it will be $5-$6 cheaper than on USAirways.com

The worst part about it?

They don’t even label it as a booking fee, it’s disingenuously labeled under taxes and fees.

Two thumbs way down!

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Save 20% off business class and get 20,000 bonus miles when you use a MasterCard with eCertificate: MCENVOY
Save 10% off coach and get 10,000 bonus miles when you use a MasterCard with eCertificate: MCEUROPE

Valid destination cities: Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Munich, Milan, and Zurich.
-Book by 12/31/07
-Travel between 11/27/07 and 03/15/08
- Blackout dates:12/14/07-12/29/07 and 01/01/08-01/08/08

This is the first time that I can remember ever seeing an airline willing to sell elite status.

You can buy 90 day elite status ranging from Silver to Platinum, for prices ranging from $200-$600, depending on whether you currently have any elite status on USAirways.

If within those 90 days you fly between 7,500 and 22,500 miles (depending on the elite level that you bought into) you will be able to keep the status until February 2009.

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