Update: This offer expires the 31st of august, so if you are planing on getting in on this offer you may want to do so soon.  Also, the Justice Department is suing to block the US Airways – American Airlines merger, so its possible the merger may not go through after all. If you are planning on purchasing these points to top off your AA account you may want to hold off…                                     ———————————————–

US Airways 100% Bonus Miles Offer LINK

US Airways via is offering for a limited time up-to a 100% bonus when purchasing miles! With this promo you can purchase up-to 50,000 miles, so with the 100% bonus you will end up with 100,000 miles!

Worth it?

Well it depends, if you like/wish to travel in business/first class for a fraction of what it normally costs, then this deal is for you.

Amongst many other possible redemption’s, with US airways miles you can travel to Israel in business class for 120k miles round trip or in first class for 150k miles round trip. Asia is 90,000 miles for business class, to the South Pacific it is 110,000 miles (which you can also route through Asia with a stopover). Also note that you get 5,000 miles off US Airways awards if you have the US Airways MasterCard.

The Math:

Each “mile” will cost you $0.035 cents to purchase. Assuming you purchase 50,000 miles (as you can only buy up-to 50,000 miles per time), together with the bonus you will end up with 100,000 miles for a total of $1,750 or 1.75 cents per mile. 50,000 x $0.035 = $1,750.

That means instead of spending $6000 for a business class ticket to Israel (or possibly more, especially to other destinations), it’ll come out to be under $2000! That’s a pretty solid deal, especially in light of the fact that regular economy tickets to Israel can cost sometimes upwards of $1,600!

Other points to bear in mind is that US Airways will seemingly merge with American Airlines sometime in 2014, this could very well be one of your last chances to get in on a 100% bonus on purchased miles. Additionally, most likely once the US/AA merger will be approved, these miles will eventually merge into your American Airlines AAdvantage account and AA almost never sells miles for less than 2 cents a piece, as you would be getting here.

Fine Print:

• All purchases are non-refundable.
• Bonus miles will be awarded upon completion of the transaction.
• The maximum number of Buy and Gift Bonus miles that can be received by one member for this offer is 50,000 bonus miles.
•  All miles purchased beyond this limit will not be eligible for a bonus.
• Offer is subject to change. Offer cannot be combined with any other offer.
• Share transactions are not eligible for bonus.
• Only purchases made online are eligible for the bonus.
• Your account must be at least 12 days old.

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