USAir double miles = $0.0125 per mile

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not a bad deal

Limited time offer: Get a 100% Bonus - That's DOUBLE miles!
Buy miles between November 1 and December 31, 2009 and get DOUBLE the number of miles. For example, buy 10,000 miles and you will receive 20,000!

Offer available for purchases made between November 1 and December 31, 2009. Bonus amounts will be awarded upon completion of the transaction. Only the first 50,000 miles purchased will qualify for the Double Miles Bonus. All miles purchased beyond this limit will not be eligible for a bonus. Offer is subject to change. Please note that Dividend Miles accounts less than 10 days old are not permitted to Buy, Share or Gift miles.


Miles purchased through Buy, Share or Gift Miles do not count towards Dividend Miles Preferred status. All other Dividend Miles Terms and Conditions apply.


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Need a few more miles? No problem. You can purchase between 1,000 and 50,000 miles per transaction.

100% bonus miles? Double miles?

Call it what you want – this double down is a guaranteed win

Double your miles right now when you buy, share or gift miles! This means more miles for award travel, flight upgrades and much, much more.

What’s not to like about a 100% bonus on your miles – and for two months only, now’s the time to get it.



Double down. Buy, share or gift:

• 30,000 miles + a 100% bonus = you get 60,000 miles
• 50,000 miles + a 100% bonus = you get 100,000 miles

What a bonus! Now’s the time to buy, share or gift miles

• Buy miles now
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Terms & Conditions


*Offer available for Buy, Share or Gift Miles purchases made November 1 - December 31, 2009. Offer only available on online purchases. Bonus amounts will be awarded upon completion of the transaction. Only the first 50,000 miles purchased for each of the buy, share or gift miles services will qualify for the Double Miles Bonus. All miles purchased beyond this limit will not be eligible for a bonus. Miles purchased through Buy, Share or Gift Miles do not count towards Dividend Miles Preferred status. Buy, Share and Gift Miles transactions are non-refundable. Offer is subject to change.

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I went to check my miles and see how many I would need to buy to get a ticket. I noticed that in January the number of miles per FF ticket goes up significantly.

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I went to check my miles and see how many I would need to buy to get a ticket. I noticed that in January the number of miles per FF ticket goes up significantly.

not quite true, don't know what you're looking at
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http://www2.usairways.com/en-US/divi.../goawards.html NEW
there are still awards at the same levels but they've added levels which probably means the lowest level will be less available, time will tell.

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I was basically looking at travel to Mexico. In 2008, I needed 35,000 miles for my trip and now it looks like it will be 60,000. I generally accrue enough miles for one free trip every other year, but it will take longer now. This could have changed earlier since I actually booked the 2008 in late 2007 and I missed it. Since I had used miles in early 2008, I had not been checking because nothing would be available for me until 2010 anyway.

I will probably buy some just so that I will have enough miles for a couple of low season tickets to go check on my mother, then just watch for specials to Mexico.

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Buy, share or gift miles

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Mileage Pricing
2.75 cents per mile
50,000 miles maximum per transaction

looks like the price of miles went up since the end of last year so this works out to 1.375cents/mile

Buy, share or gift miles


Need more miles? Buy them. Want to share? Share them! Feeling generous? Give miles as a gift.

You have to buy, share or gift miles online only to get the bonus, so why not buy while you're here?

Double miles are twice as nice

Buy or gift miles and get a 100% bonus*

Planning a spring break vacation or know someone else who could use some miles? Buy and Gift Miles can help get you there. And this February and March, we’ll give you 100% more miles! So if you buy or gift 10,000 miles, you or your friend will get 20,000 miles.

This offer couldn’t be easier. Simply buy or gift miles between February 1 and March 31, 2010, and you’ll automatically earn double the miles you purchased (up to 50,000 miles) for free.

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Feel like sharing some of your own miles with family or friends? We can help. Use the Share miles program to move miles from one account to another or combine your miles from two accounts into one.

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Terms & Conditions


Offer valid February 1 - March 31, 2010. Bonus amounts will be awarded upon completion of the transaction. Only the first 50,000 miles purchased will qualify for the double miles bonus (additional miles will not be eligible for a bonus). Offer is subject to change. Miles purchased through Buy or Gift Miles do not count towards Dividend Miles Preferred status. Buy and Gift Miles transactions are non-refundable. All other Dividend Miles terms and conditions apply. Miles purchased through Buy, Share or Gift Miles do not count towards Dividend Miles Preferred status. Buy, Share and Gift Miles transactions are non-refundable. Offer is subject to change.

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Why You Might Want to Buy US Airways Miles

February 4, 2010 2:18 pm by Tim Winship

All major airlines will happily sell you frequent flyer miles. But at prices hovering around 3 cents per mile, it has always been a better deal for the seller than it is for the buyer. Much better.

Periodic discounts improve the value proposition somewhat.

For example, American is currently offering a 500-mile bonus when consumers buy 2,000 AAdvantage miles, a 25 percent bonus, or 15,000 extra miles when 40,000 miles are purchased, a 37.5 percent bonus. The bonuses effectively decrease the price of buying the miles. But they're still too expensive, except when purchased in small quantities, to top off an account that's just short of an award threshold.
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Last summer, US Airways went well beyond the incentives routinely available from other airlines and offered a 100 percent bonus on miles bought online. That reduced the cost of purchased miles by half. And at those prices, there was a compelling argument in favor of buying miles in quantity.

US Airways reprised that offer at the end of 2009, and is now doing so for a third time, for miles purchased over the next two months.

US Airways Dividend Miles members will receive a 100 percent bonus on miles purchased during February and March. The miles can be purchased for the member's own account or as a gift for another Dividend Miles member. There's a limit of 50,000 miles that may be bought, which would amount to 100,000 miles with the bonus.

Normally, US Airways miles are priced at 2.75 cents each, plus Federal Excise Tax. The effective discount makes purchasing miles for a free domestic ticket (25,000 miles for $343.75, not including tax) a decent deal, and purchasing enough for a business-class international ticket (100,000 miles for $1,375) a downright winner.

Indeed, savvy travelers are likely to take advantage of this offer specifically in order to redeem for business-class tickets to international destinations. So the discount on frequent flyer miles may be US Airways' clever way of indirectly discounting premium tickets, without actually resorting to lowering its published fares.

Whatever US Airways' intention, the effect is welcome, especially for those whose travel itineraries include business-class trips to Europe.