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

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Wow I've been watching this thread for over a year and I've never heard that before. I thought all bonuses were offered to all?

The January offer was only sent to those who had bought miles in the previous calendar year
 
The January offer was only sent to those who had bought miles in the previous calendar year
Thanks for that nugget of 50% off info ;-) A small donation to my wife and vice versa may be in order

Apart from being less advantageous than a x2 offer is there any disadvantage to me gifting all my miles to my wife who could then pay for future travel for both of us?
 
There's no disadvantage I know of. In fact it may be slightly administratively advantageous as I think that in that circumstance you will both be under the same PNR instead of two.

This offer works out at about 2.4 cents per point so its cheaper than buying them for full cost but not as good as a 100% bonus offer. If you were minded to move some points around anyway now is not a bad time to do it though in the past they have had 100% gifting offers so you could always wait in case one of them eventuated.
 
My girlfriend has 10,000 miles in her account which are begging to be moved over to mine. She wont notice :)
 
Got this email as well. Just a question on it though, I currently have 50K in points in my account and 50K in the Mrs account.

If I share my 50K with the wife then with the promo she should get 50K + 25K bonus at a cost of $500 for sharing + $30 fee + 7.5% tax making it $567.50

Can she then share 50K of her points back to me?

Looking at the numbers though the bonus 100% buy option is better?

I don't see anything in the T&Cs that would stop person A gifting miles to B and then B gifting them back. The only limit seems to be that you can't earn more than 50K miles in bonuses by all gifts you receive under this offer.

The offers where you get double miles or pay half price when you buy are the best ones for sure.
 
True. US Air has two sorts of what I would colloquially call gifting:

- what they define as "sharing" i.e. when you transfer miles in your account to someone else so they are subtracted from your DM balance and added to theirs

- what they define as "gifting" i.e. when you buy new miles for someone else so they go straight into their account adding to their DM balance without passing through yours

This offer is about "sharing".
 
Be careful with the back and forth swapping... In the previous 1-2 years there are many reports from people who had their accounts locked and audited for such activity. Some lost their balances and US is really unreasonable in these regards.

That being said, I do not think this offer is great (bad ratio), except you have ample accounts of a few thousand miles sitting around and look at merging them together.
 
Be careful with the back and forth swapping... In the previous 1-2 years there are many reports from people who had their accounts locked and audited for such activity. Some lost their balances and US is really unreasonable in these regards.

That being said, I do not think this offer is great (bad ratio), except you have ample accounts of a few thousand miles sitting around and look at merging them together.

I am not aware of any reports either here or on FT that accounts have been closed or audited for sharing of miles.

Buying tickets for other people (with different surnames), yes, but not sharing of miles.
 
Got this email as well. Just a question on it though, I currently have 50K in points in my account and 50K in the Mrs account.

If I share my 50K with the wife then with the promo she should get 50K + 25K bonus at a cost of $500 for sharing + $30 fee + 7.5% tax making it $567.50

Can she then share 50K of her points back to me?

Looking at the numbers though the bonus 100% buy option is better?

We are in a similar situation and shared miles both ways under a previous promotion without query. Note, though, that both of us had the requisite miles in our respective accounts; there was no shuffling involved.
 
Just make a change to 2 PNR's, changing routing etc. and adding in some SQ flights. No questions from the agent, gave the exact flights, change done and paid! Easy.
 
Just make a change to 2 PNR's, changing routing etc. and adding in some SQ flights. No questions from the agent, gave the exact flights, change done and paid! Easy.
So the rumour of more SQ availability is probably true!
 
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So the rumour of more SQ availability is probably true!

In line with their re-vamp of saver rewards in their own program.

Yes, the Boarding Area blogs on Flyertalk have started to emerge with this "news".

Some have already put down confirmed J bookings on SQ.

SQ 77W F is still pretty difficult to get; 388 R is nigh impossible as usual.
 
Yes, the Boarding Area blogs on Flyertalk have started to emerge with this "news".

Some have already put down confirmed J bookings on SQ.

SQ 77W F is still pretty difficult to get; 388 R is nigh impossible as usual.

Still better than nothing! For most people A380/77W J is good enough.
 
I normally use the Continetal reward travel search which is now recently branded as United.

Noticed that it was showing me options for SQ A380 J on routes like SIN-LHR, BUT only in conjunction with other flights. If I looked for that same SQ flight on its own it would show as Y available only. I also noticed that none of the options being shown to me were for mixed class itineraries which Continetal previously indicated. Seems to me that some of the supposed SQ inventory I am seeing on United is possibly bogus and the site has simply stopped identifying mixed class itineraries. That seems particularly dangerous for them seeing as they offer online booking.
 
Yes, the Boarding Area blogs on Flyertalk have started to emerge with this "news".

Some have already put down confirmed J bookings on SQ.

SQ 77W F is still pretty difficult to get; 388 R is nigh impossible as usual.

Isn't that because 388 R isn't available anyway under the saver award options? That's probably the main reason why.
 
Isn't that because 388 R isn't available anyway under the saver award options? That's probably the main reason why.

388 R is available only to KF for an undisclosed (typcially 7 figure) number of KF miles I think.
 
Isn't that because 388 R isn't available anyway under the saver award options? That's probably the main reason why.

It isn't available at all under any normal award conditions, inside or outside KF. I suppose that the shake-up has been good to get some J inventory out there, but F is still looking quite stark.

I'm not sure whether the presence of Saver awards is necessarily tied to the ability for other *A programs to find availability. Granted, if there is Saver availability then someone outside KF probably still has a chance...

388 R is available only to KF for an undisclosed (typcially 7 figure) number of KF miles I think.

Correct - rather silly amount of points - you're better off with getting a Full award on a 77W (if you're that desparate) or paying the cash!
 
So hypothetically, if ANA for example, shows SQ available .... then it would be a good bet that US would see this as well?

Definitely happy to fly 388/77W J given they have flat products.
 
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