US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

[repete]

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Yes - but I think he means you can buy 50k for yourself, then gift or share 50k to someone else.

Yep, thanks Flashware. At present, Dad and I have 0 miles but accounts activated for long enough. So, I was going to buy 30K to gift to Dad for him to get 60K, then he could buy his own 30K and get 30K more I was hoping for a total of 120k. So each of us only buying one lot of 30k each?

 

[Flashback]

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Yep, thanks Flashware. At present, Dad and I have 0 miles but accounts activated for long enough. So, I was going to buy 30K to gift to Dad for him to get 60K, then he could buy his own 30K and get 30K more I was hoping for a total of 120k. So each of us only buying one lot of 30k each?

Not sure that would work as buy 30+being gifted 30k is 10k over the limit for receiving...

 

[repete]

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Just wondering (and trying to keep reading through this thread!), is there a good place to try and understand any rules that may apply to trying a routing? Mum and Dad would be likely to be going from SYD, with a destination of Malta (to visit fam) and a dream stop-off for Mum being Salzburg. I've tried fiddling with various options and wondering once entering Europe, can they only travel in one direction or anything (e.g. can they head into and out of Europe say into ZHR-VIE-SZG-FRA-MLA-FRA then back out towards home again?)

 

[burmans]

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Not sure that would work as buy 30+being gifted 30k is 10k over the limit for receiving...

Can I just suggest that sometimes the limits don't seem to be enforced. And yes, this is from personal experience.

 

[Flashback]

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Can I just suggest that sometimes the limits don't seem to be enforced. And yes, this is from personal experience.

Of course you can Plenty of proof in here of things not happening as per the rules....

 

[kkl]

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Is everyone buying the miles now in anticipation for the merger with AA??

Whats to most cost effective way in obtaining the max miles? Buying 75K, 75K free?

 

[markis10]

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Whats to most cost effective way in obtaining the max miles? Buying 75K, 75K free?

Dont think there has been any offer better than 100% bonus :shock:

 

[kkl]

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Dont think there has been any offer better than 100% bonus :shock:

What I meant is, buying or sharing works out to be the same?

read above that buying some and then sharing is good but unsure if its the same as just buying them

 

[bcworld]

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What I meant is, buying or sharing works out to be the same?

read above that buying some and then sharing is good but unsure if its the same as just buying them

There is no current bonus on sharing so I assume you mean gifting. Buying and gifting costs are the same but you cannot buy 75+75 in one transaction.

 

[kkl]

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There is no current bonus on sharing so I assume you mean gifting. Buying and gifting costs are the same but you cannot buy 75+75 in one transaction.

My bad. 50+50.

i currently don't need it but with the AA merger and 100% conversion rate, seems like a good idea to buy?

 

[smit0847]

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My bad. 50+50.

i currently don't need it but with the AA merger and 100% conversion rate, seems like a good idea to buy?

I guess it does make sense to load up on DMs at promo prices with the intent of eventually redeeming them on AA, if they sweep at 1:1 like some people say they will - I still cannot find that statement by the US or AA CEO anywhere - link?!

But I'm guessing it will still be at least a year before we can redeem on AA and there are no guarantees as to availability etc on OW as it's a much smaller alliance.

What are people doing here? Milking DM for all it's worth on *A while they still can or loading up to look long-term to the future?

 

[bcworld]

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Just wondering (and trying to keep reading through this thread!), is there a good place to try and understand any rules that may apply to trying a routing? Mum and Dad would be likely to be going from SYD, with a destination of Malta (to visit fam) and a dream stop-off for Mum being Salzburg. I've tried fiddling with various options and wondering once entering Europe, can they only travel in one direction or anything (e.g. can they head into and out of Europe say into ZHR-VIE-SZG-FRA-MLA-FRA then back out towards home again?)

Assuming ZHR means Zurich here's what you're suggesting:

Great Circle Mapper

In general terms, your stopover should be on a relatively direct route between your origin and destination....SZG is clearly nothing like that.

Bear in mind also that SZG may be further from your origin than MLA...therefore it becomes your destination rather than the stopover.

If you want to go to SZG you'll most likely have to book a separate side trip.

 

[kevrosmith]

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Noticed this on Twitter this morning:



The link is: US Airways | Buy, share or gift miles

 

[MEL_Traveller]

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Noticed this on Twitter this morning:

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The link is: US Airways | Buy, share or gift miles

if you want more information, most of the discussion over the last page or so has been about this deal.

 

[bcworld]

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and there are no guarantees as to availability etc on OW as it's a much smaller alliance.

It might be smaller but not necessarily with less options. Thinking about leaving MEL for example *A the options would be:

-14 flights a week on TG (sure, their availability is A+++!)
-14 non A380,77W flights a week on SQ
-5 flights a week on CA
-7 flights a week on UA but Transpac availability has gone back to non-existant
-I'm not including NZ, never come up with an itinerary that transits AKL.

On OW there would be:
-21 flights a week on CX
-14 flights a week on MH (As I've said before I have hopes for their availability)
-7 flights a week on QR
-7 flights a week on EY (As AA currently has an earn/redeem partnership with EY) - Availability tends to be pretty good I think.
-7 flights a week on QF to DXB
-7 flights a week on QF to HKG
-7 flights a week on QF to SIN
-Plus the bonus of domestic connections on QF feeding into SYD

 

[burmans]

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Dont think there has been any offer better than 100% bonus :shock:

Methinks the 100% share was better than the 100% bonus!

 

[bcworld]

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Methinks the 100% share was better than the 100% bonus!

The simultaneous buy/share/gift at 100% bonus, each with 50k limit and at $0.025/mile was better!

 

[smit0847]

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It might be smaller but not necessarily with less options. Thinking about leaving MEL for example *A the options would be:

-14 flights a week on TG (sure, their availability is A+++!)
-14 non A380,77W flights a week on SQ
-5 flights a week on CA
-7 flights a week on UA but Transpac availability has gone back to non-existant
-I'm not including NZ, never come up with an itinerary that transits AKL.

On OW there would be:
-21 flights a week on CX
-14 flights a week on MH (As I've said before I have hopes for their availability)
-7 flights a week on QR
-7 flights a week on EY (As AA currently has an earn/redeem partnership with EY) - Availability tends to be pretty good I think.
-7 flights a week on QF to DXB
-7 flights a week on QF to HKG
-7 flights a week on QF to SIN
-Plus the bonus of domestic connections on QF feeding into SYD

I suspect MH will become the trusty 'go to' equivalent we have now in TG, both being good, but not great airlines.

If one-stop CX availability to North America is easy to get it will be a HUGE benefit over the current difficulties in crossing the Pacific.

If I have the choice of CX or QR from MEL to Europe I will be absolutely laughing - two of the best airlines in the world.

 

[mhen]

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I guess it does make sense to load up on DMs at promo prices with the intent of eventually redeeming them on AA, if they sweep at 1:1 like some people say they will - I still cannot find that statement by the US or AA CEO anywhere - link?!

From New York Times 10 April 2013

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/travel/if-american-airlines-and-us-airways-merge-what-should-fliers-expect.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

American Airlines plans to keep its loyalty program, AAdvantage. That means the US Airways program, Dividend Miles, will be dissolved, and its members will be absorbed into AAdvantage. Mr. Parker said there would be a one-to-one transfer of miles (one Dividend mile will equal one AAdvantage mile), swelling American’s program to more than 100 million members.

As to when that might happen see a recent report in Business Travel News.

Merger Planning Underway As AA, US Airways Embark On Long Journey - Business Travel News

Isom said he expected US Airways during those first six months to transition to Oneworld from the Star Alliance. "The game plan would be that soon upon legal close we would be able tell customers about when US Airways will be a full member of Oneworld and when the Star relationship will end," he said, declining to offer a more specific timeframe. "It will not be, I know right now, simultaneous with legal close."

 

[MEL_Traveller]

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thanks mhen. I hope this puts an end to the doubters of the 1:1 conversion.