US Airways Dividend Miles - Special Dividends - Add club pass for girlfriend?

Hi everyone,

For the Special Dividends at 60k miles you 'add a spouse or domestic partner to your US Airways Club membership.' Is that a pretty soft check or do they require any sort of verification?

Can a girlfriend be added?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

For the Special Dividends at 60k miles you 'add a spouse or domestic partner to your US Airways Club membership.' Is that a pretty soft check or do they require any sort of verification?

Can a girlfriend be added?

Thanks!

Check this thread.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-airways-dividend-miles/1171094-special-dividends-coming-march-1-2011-a-7.html

Your post will probably get merged into that thread anyway.

If you read through it looks like you mainly just need to be living at the same address. If they do check, just make sure there is some utility bill or something where she is listed at the same address as you. Shouldn't be hard to get.

Is your GF's address on her DM account the same as yours? I'm thinking that's where they'll do the check, if they do one at all. Mrs AT has a different last name than me, but obviously her address is the same. (Well, maybe not obviously, but ... :D )

Check this thread.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-airways-dividend-miles/1171094-special-dividends-coming-march-1-2011-a-7.html

Your post will probably get merged into that thread anyway.

If you read through it looks like you mainly just need to be living at the same address. If they do check, just make sure there is some utility bill or something where she is listed at the same address as you. Shouldn't be hard to get.

I had looked through there but apparently didn't comb through it close enough! thanks for the heads up ya'll!

I can tell you from experience the addresses on file is irrelevant!

I tried to use this for my wife as intended but would not let me as she kept her maiden name. And yes we have same address in our account profile. Any ideas how to get tit to work?

I tried to use this for my wife as intended but would not let me as she kept her maiden name. And yes we have same address in our account profile. Any ideas how to get tit to work?

Just got off the phone with club administration. Scan a copy of your marriage license and send to clubs@usairways.com with request to add her to your account.

They told me that they had a lot of problems with fraud last year, as evidenced by many of the posters above, so are being much more careful this year.

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Just because you think you might be able to get away with something doesn't mean that you should do it. It might have unintended consequences for others who are actually following the rules.

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Some people dont want to get married. Some people prefer to not go through a legal process. It would be nice if we could reap the same rewards...

Some people dont want to get married. Some people prefer to not go through a legal process. It would be nice if we could reap the same rewards...

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A Domestic Partnership should be all that is required, as has been the standards for most industries now for a few years. When I go to rent a car, I can add my girlfriend to it for free because we live in a domestic partnership. When I get health insurance, I have the option of adding my girlfriend to my plan as a domestic partner. There are countless other examples and US Airways needs to step into the year 2013 on this one.

Some people dont want to get married. Some people prefer to not go through a legal process. It would be nice if we could reap the same rewards...

No doubt, and were this some type of government program regulated by equal protection laws, I would be very much on your side. But it isn't, it is an offer made by a private company, who are free to set their own terms. The fact that you don't like the terms certainly gives you the right to protest against them, or even to take your business away from US Airways, but doesn't give you the automatic right to violate the rules.

I suspect that if you provided evidence of a long term committed relationship to US Airways they would agree that you met the terms, however the group of people in non-married long term relationships does not seem to have been the one that caused the problems.

The rep with whom I spoke stated that they discovered many incidents of people enrolling their neighbors, children, other relatives, friends, etc. These people are the targets of my rant; the ones who knew that they were cheating.

A Domestic Partnership should be all that is required, ...

The 60k/75seg Special Div level does provide for spouse/domestic partner to be added to Club membership.

Appears that only the threshold of proof of domestic partnership required by US is at issue ...

The rep with whom I spoke stated that they discovered many incidents of people enrolling their neighbors, children, other relatives, friends, etc. These people are the targets of my rant; the ones who knew that they were cheating.

But why does it matter? I understand they are a private company... but so is Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and my health insurance is a Employee +1. They dont really seem to care who that +1 is...

I'm just saying, its 2013. US should be more open minded...

The 60k/75seg Special Div level does provide for spouse/domestic partner to be added to Club membership.

Appears that only the threshold of proof of domestic partnership required by US is at issue ...

Ah, ok. If this is the case, giving proof that you live together should be enough. Granted, people who are just roommates can also then get away with this, but short of giving some type of interview and inspection of the dwelling, there is no way to prove whether or not someone is a Domestic Partner or Roommate. Thus, in this case, I believe if an address can be verified as being the same, that it should count as a Domestic Partner.

But why does it matter? I understand they are a private company... but so is Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and my health insurance is a Employee +1. They dont really seem to care who that +1 is...

I'm just saying, its 2013. US should be more open minded...

Legally, that +1 needs to be a Domestic Partner or Spouse. If you were found to have violated that, it would be considered tax fraud since you get tax breaks on your health plan.

The trigger for verification is different address or last name, though this would of course allow children or other relatives living at the same address with the same last name. I don't know what type of proof they would accept for domestic partners, etc. as I only asked about adding my wife and was told marriage license.

My only point was that there seem to have been enough people who took advantage of this program to give club membership to someone who was not their spouse or equivalent that US feels the need to impose this extra level of inconvenience for those who were not cheating.

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A Domestic Partnership should be all that is required, as has been the standards for most industries now for a few years. When I go to rent a car, I can add my girlfriend to it for free because we live in a domestic partnership. When I get health insurance, I have the option of adding my girlfriend to my plan as a domestic partner. There are countless other examples and US Airways needs to step into the year 2013 on this one.

Companies still vary. I was in a serious relationship with someone, spending almost every weekend with her, but she lived and worked in another country, and my company wouldn't recognize her as a domestic partner. Their rule was that we had to live at the same address for 12 months. It used to be that many companies would only recognize same-sex DP's on the basis that opposite-sex couples could get married if they wanted to.

We're married now, we still live in different countries, but we put our joint address (where actually neither of us lives anymore) on all her documents that don't specifically pertain to her work or social insurance benefits.

Some people dont want to get married. Some people prefer to not go through a legal process. It would be nice if we could reap the same rewards...

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A Domestic Partnership should be all that is required, as has been the standards for most industries now for a few years. When I go to rent a car, I can add my girlfriend to it for free because we live in a domestic partnership. When I get health insurance, I have the option of adding my girlfriend to my plan as a domestic partner. There are countless other examples and US Airways needs to step into the year 2013 on this one.

It is curiously strange (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-airways-dividend-miles/1426882-help-special-dividend-wife-club-access-not-working.html#post20031372).

Just got married on Friday, and it won't let me add my wife as she hasn't updated her name yet (legally or on her DM account). US told her not to update her name yet as we have a ticket booked under her maiden name.

So looks like I have to fax in a copy of my marriage certificate.

Just got married on Friday, and it won't let me add my wife as she hasn't updated her name yet (legally or on her DM account). US told her not to update her name yet as we have a ticket booked under her maiden name.

So looks like I have to fax in a copy of my marriage certificate.

Congrats on your wedding. You can also email in a copy if you've scanned it in to clubs@usairways.com That worked for my wife, whose last name is different and we don't intend to change.