Have followed this thread on and off for the past year and have now spent the last two evenings reading through the entire thread...phew! Can't say I understood all of it, and will have to try and recall my 'airline head' for some of the codes and terminology...

BC World you have all my 'karma' coming your way; Many thanks to all the other members who have worked hard to help figure out the best deals, routes etc.

I have now signed-up myself and hubby for the US Airways bonus points, hoping to take advantage of a business class flight back to the UK next year (my first since moving here in 2007), so no doubt will be on at some stage asking some (not too stupid I hope!) questions.

Til then, happy travels!

I agree everyone should gift you some points as your commission Just spent an hour looking through this thread so is it still possible to purchase the double points if so can someone please send me the link as I can't find the offer & it shows 100,000 miles costs $3762.50 many thanks )

Hi - I also got lots of help last year when booking flights so glad to help here. This is the link
http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid.../getmiles.html
I take it you have joined U S Airways scheme and have your number, LOG IN on top right, number and password on the next page. This should take you to the 100% bonus page. Good luck

Bought an additional 50,000 (25,000 + 25,000) for myself and my wife last night, so we now have 150,000 each - roll on next April for First class returns to Europe.

Total cost US$1475 for the first 100,000 plus US$940 for the next 50,000, making a total of US$2415 for a First class return ticket - probably about the same in A$ as the first lot was bought last July when the exchange rate was US$1.05.

Also paid US$35 to renew my subscription to the KVS flight finder - now all I have to do is wait for April flights to become available and book! Going First means we will need to drive down to Sydney and leave the car with Liz's mum - not a problem as we need to take the dog down there anyway.

How do you arrive at that figure?

50k(+50k) miles = $US1881 in any recent promo I can think of. Oh, I see...you bought them a year ago at $0.0275??

Correct. We'd just finished the trip with our first 120,000, arrived back in Brisbane in June 2011, and in July US Airways had another 100% promotion so we started our bank for 2013!

I came back from a trip in Sep 2011 and 100% at $0.0275 was running. Didn't buy and then kicked myself when it went up to $0.035 I think the next month!

Thanks guys got it Its showing as $1750 for 50,000 plus 100% free until June 30th today, worth noting it says accounts now have to be active 12 days before you can recieve miles as a gift fantastic deal such a bitch of a flight it will be so much nicer in Biz or F

Note there is no 'gift' promo running...it's been all about buying only for a while now.

Sorry to sound stupid just checking before purchase my pan was to get my friend to sign up & buys the extra miles with the double mileage bonus and gift them to me do you mean they are unable to gift them to me & I need to pay full price for anything over the 100,000 miles now? Thx for your help with this

Ignore spelling lol i phone!

Just been on to my login and it says that I can gift
and buy get 100% as well,might get some for my sons .

So it does!

Sorry Melstra...I never even thought to look as they certainly didn't advertise that. T&Cs have varied but you might be able to benefit from both buy AND gift...didn't read too closely.

From my reading of T&C looks like that might be the case.But it does say offer cannot be combined with any other offer,so maybe need to try and see.

hi do you think its worth using the KVS website?

Thanks