US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - HNL Coach Award on United 60K miles?

Award travel within the U.S., including Alaska, starts at only 25,000 miles per ticket. A ticket to Hong Kong in United Business® will be 80,000 miles. Take a trip for two to Hawaii in Coach Class for 120,000 miles.

Found the above on the web site. Also in Spring newsletter. I thought HNL was only 35K miles?

I had the same though. Does the 120,000 miles include anything more than just the flight for two?

United Business awards to HNL were 60k in UA or DL miles ... maybe US is getting ripped off? More likely it's a mistake ...

If it's true, that's one way to cut down on mass-redemption. I wouldn't be surprised if in April a lot of USAirways mileage holders are calling for Hawaii award tickets.. maybe it's a premptive strike.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beckles:
More likely it's a mistake ...</font>

Here's hoping you're right.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gardener:
Award travel within the U.S., including Alaska, starts at only 25,000 miles per ticket. A ticket to Hong Kong in United Business® will be 80,000 miles. Take a trip for two to Hawaii in Coach Class for 120,000 miles.

Found the above on the web site. Also in Spring newsletter. I thought HNL was only 35K miles?</font>

Where is this on the website, gardener?

Looks like this may have several mistakes.

Yes, a 120K 2-person award to Hawaii on United coach is just a little steep but an 80K award on United Business to Hong Kong would make me one happy camper http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif Unless they really want to make Hawaii so prohibitively expensive that US flyers won't do it, and have a glut of unused seats on those 744s to HKG.


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It's in the newsletter.

http://www.usairways.com/dividendmiles/offers/jan03nl/spring03_na.htm

Or direct link to the PDF:

http://www.usairways.com/dividendmiles/offers/jan03nl/spring03nl_na.pdf


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The newsletter says "for a complete list of awards available visit usairways.com"

I couldn't find anything there.

Neither could I. I tend to agree with Beckles that this is a mistake. How could they justify charging nearly twice the going rate for 2 tickets to Hawaii? The newsletter also mentions Auckland as a reward possibility. That's going to be a neat trick seeing as how United is pulling out of New Zealand in March.

I just booked two tickets at 60k each to Hawaii on UAL in Business/First. That's their Saver Award price for First/Business. Their coach Saver is in fact 35k.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dingo:
I just booked two tickets at 60k each to Hawaii on UAL in Business/First. That's their Saver Award price for First/Business. Their coach Saver is in fact 35k.</font>

I'm assuming you did that using UA miles....right? Or do you know something the rest of us don't?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by harold:
I'm assuming you did that using UA miles....right? Or do you know something the rest of us don't?</font>

He must have - Maybe I should have been more specific in my thread title. I am talking about booking HNL on UA using US miles after April 1st, hopefully it is 120K for two biz class tix (and 35K per coach saver award) otherwise i have been hoarding my US miles for nothing.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gardener:
He must have - Maybe I should have been more specific in my thread title. I am talking about booking HNL on UA using US miles after April 1st, hopefully it is 120K for two biz class tix (and 35K per coach saver award) otherwise i have been hoarding my US miles for nothing.

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I wouldn't presume that at all - Hawaii will be a VERY popular destination for DM folks, and hence US could justifiably demand a "premium" for the award tix.



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It was on UA...my assumption (look out now!) is that the miles needed are the same however. I could be wrong based on the genius 'premium' comment above. That would not surprise me at all.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">He must have - Maybe I should have been more specific in my thread title. I am talking about booking HNL on UA using US miles after April 1st, hopefully it is 120K for two biz class tix (and 35K per coach saver award) otherwise i have been hoarding my US miles for nothing.
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Yes, according to their web site it is 35,000 in standard coach or 35,000 in business class.

Travel Between North America and Central America, the Caribbean, or Hawaii Award Miles

Award Standard Premium
One Coach Class ticket
US Airways operated flights only
30,000 70,000
One Coach Class ticket 35,000 -
One First Class ticket on two-class aircraft or
One Business Class ticket on three-class aircraft 60,000 120,000
One First Class ticket on three-class aircraft 80,000 -

Yep, it was a typo. 120K is for two biz class saver awards. Here's the link:

http://www.usairways.com/dividendmiles/member_guide/award/award_travel_chart.htm

Believe this is where freakflyer got his info.