I've written in the past about US Airways' off-peak awards to Europe, which are one of the best values in the airline industry. For travel in the off season, a US to Europe award costs just 35,000 miles in coach or 60,000 miles in business class. Beyond that, if you have the US Airways Mastercard…
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I took time off from work next week as did my girlfriend. I was trying to book our tickets and they turned to mush!
Now we don't have enough miles to go!!! How could they do this? Couldn't they wait until March 1?
as you speculated Ben, the clouds are brewing and the keymaster will soon meet Zoul.
US Airways sucks, they always sucked and they will always such. Such a shame that AA is even considering a merger with that woeful airline.
A quick noob question. I am flying to BOM (india) with a 5 day stopover in JED. I was expecting 120k miles required for 1 return ticket in Biz class. Is there anything changed for my plan with this revised redemption rules?
Those much ballyhooed awards were rare as hens teeth. I looked for 2 yrs, for almost any destination and almost any dates -- never saw a darn thing available.
@ dale m -- If planning far in advance I actually found availability to be quite good. Just didn't find very much space within a few months of departure, unfortunately.
this sucks...i saved up US Airways for next FEb...was waiting another month to start booking...oh wells 90K to Asia here we come!
So they do this right after people took advantage of their sale on award miles - nice.
Interesting because AA also doesn't offer Off Peak Business Awards, but does offer 40,000 Economy Awards...
Anyone notice they've only changed US Airways awards? Star Alliance awards seem to be unaffected.
@ TG -- I could be mistaken, though I believe they've raised the cost of Star Alliance awards to Hawaii in first class from 70,000 miles to 80,000 miles.
I was pretty sad about this news. I'm taking advantage of the 55k mile off-peak award to go to CDG next week, and was really hoping it'd be around next year as well.
I'm not sure if it was by luck, but yesterday I was able to book off-peak business class (Envoy) for only 30,000 miles for one-way and the other way in 17,500 miles for Economy class. 47,500 - 5,000 = 42,500 with US Air Mastercard discount! (booked through phone rep)