The Frequent Traveller Thread - Perks, points, and deals for beginners and experts
07-19-2014, 03:44 AM
You're right, this offer from US Air ways is a targeted offer. I bought my miles in May, when i had very few, that wasn't a targeted offer, but open to the public. I'll post about the US Airways offer when it goes "wide" and is openly available.
As far as the account needing to be 12 dye old, that doesn't seem like much of an impediment. I'd suggest opening a slew of accounts for this very purpose - some require you to have a little mileage activity in them to really become active though. For example, I opened today an Iberia account, because they're a transfer partner of OneWorld, I can actually transfer BA miles to Iberia (rather than just book on Iberia), and their fuel surcharges are lower than BA's for similar distance routes. It sucks that they have fuel surcharges, but thats not too uncommon on international carriers especially between Europe and North America.
In fact, if I were a new flier, I'd definitely open or have accounts on every major alliance, plus Alaska, Virgin, and some other premium airlines. That way you won't have to worry about these delay times. Iberia's is 60 days from setting it up to transfer BA Avios, so I've set that clock ticking. The clock doesn't begin to run til you earn some Iberia Avios, but they have a contest right now - gives 50 free avios. The benefit of that is it activates your account.
Thanks for the research gunner.
As far as the account needing to be 12 dye old, that doesn't seem like much of an impediment. I'd suggest opening a slew of accounts for this very purpose - some require you to have a little mileage activity in them to really become active though. For example, I opened today an Iberia account, because they're a transfer partner of OneWorld, I can actually transfer BA miles to Iberia (rather than just book on Iberia), and their fuel surcharges are lower than BA's for similar distance routes. It sucks that they have fuel surcharges, but thats not too uncommon on international carriers especially between Europe and North America.
In fact, if I were a new flier, I'd definitely open or have accounts on every major alliance, plus Alaska, Virgin, and some other premium airlines. That way you won't have to worry about these delay times. Iberia's is 60 days from setting it up to transfer BA Avios, so I've set that clock ticking. The clock doesn't begin to run til you earn some Iberia Avios, but they have a contest right now - gives 50 free avios. The benefit of that is it activates your account.
Thanks for the research gunner.
Quote: (07-19-2014 02:46 AM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
Quote: (07-17-2014 09:19 AM)G_global Wrote:
I just looked and US Airways has this 100 percent bonus purchase right now through the end of July. Coach on Cathay would be 70,000 roundtrip between NYC and HKG, not such a great deal, actually. But biz class is only 110,000 roundtrip, and that ticket is north of US$6,000 usually, meaning $1800 has gotten you most of the way there, and you save around 4,000 on a first class airline.
Quote: (07-17-2014 07:16 AM)G_global Wrote:
Along this idea, US Airways often does 2x bonus on mileage purchases several times a year. This means if you buy 50,000 miles, you get an additional 50,000 miles for free (they do something similar with sharing miles with other US Airways frequent fliers). I recently bought 50,000 plus 50,000 with US Airways for around 1850 USD, and with the miles in hand, I can get a round trip biz class ticket on Cathay (also a US Airways partner through One World) for 110,000 miles, NYC-HKG. Thats a great price, when premium economy one way NYC-HKG recently priced out at 1700. So moving up in class from a one way ticket to a two way ticket, on the world's #1 rated airlines (by some raters, at least) is quite a way to make money go a lot further. And the same holds true even if you're just interested in booking coach tickets, though they tend to be a bit pricier on a dollar for dollar exchange basis than using more mileage for a biz class seat.
I just researched this topic, because I would love to fly business class on Cathay on a long-haul flight for one-third of the cost. But your account must be at least 12 days old (which precludes opening a new account to take advantage of this deal) PLUS U.S. Airways must target you for the offer. I have no clue why it targets particular accounts. While I see the benefits of such deals, this is exactly why I hate dealing with this crap.
http://millionmilesecrets.com/2014/07/09...-targeted/
Great thread, though. I need to learn this stuff.
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