I just found some info on the above. Seems to me that anyone doing online booking for the first time at the usairways site gets 3,000 bonus miles and the offer is good through Dec. 21, 2003.

So for anyone like me who has never done an online booking with USAir, booking the flight thru the USAir site appears to be a much better deal mileage-wise.

Members earn a 1,000 bonus for each on-line booking thereafter on the USAir site.

I've never used Orbitz, and am wondering if you get any price break by using them? Price difference would be the only incentive to use Orbitz for its new bonus miles, no? Otherwise (unless I'm missing something) USAirways has some mighty generous bonuses for using its own site.

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Online Booking Bonus up to
3,000 Bonus Miles 5/23/02 - 12/31/03
Purchase a roundtrip ticket online for the first time and complete travel by December 31, 2003, to receive 3,000 bonus miles. Members will receive 1,000 bonus miles for each online booking thereafter.

Tickets must be purchased on usairways.com and travel must be completed by December 31, 2003 to receive bonus mile credit. Mileage bonus can only be posted to the member's Dividend Miles account for travel on flights operated by US Airways, the US Airways Express carriers and US Airways Shuttle for which the member has chosen to earn Dividend Miles. Please allow three weeks after travel is complete for miles to be posted. This offer does not apply to tickets purchased through US Airways Vacations online, E-Savers fares or award travel. Miles will be credited to the account of the member that flies. Travel must be completed by December 31, 2003.

[This message has been edited by jmartin (edited 08-19-2003).]