Dividend Miles Select: What's "DMS" [master thread]
Apr 17, 2011, 8:25 pm
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Dividend Miles Select: What's "DMS" [master thread]
My mom had her DM# opened by Barclays and next to the number of miles at the top right corner it says "DMS". Anyone know what that means?
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Apr 17, 2011, 8:34 pm
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Apr 17, 2011, 8:46 pm
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Apr 17, 2011, 10:33 pm
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5K discount is only on US metal, not sure if it even applies on the phone. So most of the time it's kind of pointless except:
1. If you snag an Envoy off-peak award. 60K - 5K = 55K round trip in Envoy to Europe or Brazil!
2. When they have occasional MileSavers such as two weeks ago - various short to mid-range domestic routes for weekend trips from PHX, CLT or PHL for 15K - 5K = a weekend out of town for only 10K. Sent a family member PHX-PDX for a 4 day weekend tirp for that. Awesome.
1. If you snag an Envoy off-peak award. 60K - 5K = 55K round trip in Envoy to Europe or Brazil!
2. When they have occasional MileSavers such as two weeks ago - various short to mid-range domestic routes for weekend trips from PHX, CLT or PHL for 15K - 5K = a weekend out of town for only 10K. Sent a family member PHX-PDX for a 4 day weekend tirp for that. Awesome.
Jun 19, 2011, 2:26 pm
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What does DMS mean?
After logging into my US Airways account, I have a DMS after my name and points. What does this mean?
Jun 19, 2011, 2:30 pm
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Dividend Miles Select
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Jun 19, 2011, 3:37 pm
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Ok, gotcha. Any word of another Silver trial like last year?
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Jun 19, 2011, 4:11 pm
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The dsm 5000 mile discount is good as long as you have the card. With a 25k plus spend per year, award booking fees are waived. Had to get a ticket for a friend to go to a funeral 48 hours out. As a chairman dms with the spend it was 20k miles and those two things clear all fees. $10 in taxes for a ticket.
Aug 26, 2011, 8:41 pm
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Just got the card.... had the "DMS" moniker beside my name at usairways.com, but now it's disappeared. Just tried to price a few flights with miles, and I'm not getting a 5,000 mile discount either. Anyone else having same issue?
Aug 26, 2011, 8:49 pm
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the dms icon comes and goes. I guess its an it glitch. I would try, either hitting refresh or signing out and back in if it doesn't show up.
Aug 27, 2011, 9:33 am
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Still not there for some reason. Not much use in calling on a hurricane day I suppose. If it doesn't show back up by Monday, I'll give them a call, and just credit Monday's flight to UA. I can't deal with boarding in zone 9. 
Oct 13, 2011, 11:16 pm
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So if I login to my account and now see "Award processing fees waived" under the "Dividend Miles Select" heading that apparently means I hit my $25k in spending? I haven't had the 10k PQM conversion, so I suppose it's possible that it's also a mistake or else it shows before the PQM conversion happens.
Further reading seems to indicate that I'll have this feature for 12 months from today (or 10 days from now - I can't tell)?
And it seems that it would then make booking award travel out of my account risk-free, since both the processing fee is waived and the re-deposit fee is waived?
Apologies if this is covered elsewhere - a search revealed some old information from 2009 but nothing definitive.
Further reading seems to indicate that I'll have this feature for 12 months from today (or 10 days from now - I can't tell)?
And it seems that it would then make booking award travel out of my account risk-free, since both the processing fee is waived and the re-deposit fee is waived?
Apologies if this is covered elsewhere - a search revealed some old information from 2009 but nothing definitive.
Oct 14, 2011, 5:49 am
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So if I login to my account and now see "Award processing fees waived" under the "Dividend Miles Select" heading that apparently means I hit my $25k in spending? I haven't had the 10k PQM conversion, so I suppose it's possible that it's also a mistake or else it shows before the PQM conversion happens.
Further reading seems to indicate that I'll have this feature for 12 months from today (or 10 days from now - I can't tell)?
And it seems that it would then make booking award travel out of my account risk-free, since both the processing fee is waived and the re-deposit fee is waived?
Apologies if this is covered elsewhere - a search revealed some old information from 2009 but nothing definitive.
Further reading seems to indicate that I'll have this feature for 12 months from today (or 10 days from now - I can't tell)?
And it seems that it would then make booking award travel out of my account risk-free, since both the processing fee is waived and the re-deposit fee is waived?
Apologies if this is covered elsewhere - a search revealed some old information from 2009 but nothing definitive.
I know I've had it show up on my account all this year, even back in January, when I certainly didn't have $25k in spending on this card for the year.
Feb 23, 2012, 9:30 am
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5k discount
I just noticed on the ads for Barclays card that a 5k discount for award travel is offered. Anyone tried this using an existing CC? Or is it just for new accounts?