Thank you for all the advice!!
Originally Posted by
lkar
Lastly -- an even easier solution for you if you can't find a trading partner is to do a swap with a friend or family member that has an account. For example, if your wife has an account, send her 10,000 miles. This will give her 20k miles and you will have 40k. Now, she sends the 20k miles back to you. This gives her zero, and you now have 80k. The only down side is you pay the $37.50 fee twice instead of once if you can find a single transfer partner. But, still, the overall cost will be about $375, which is not too bad for 30k miles.
I did think about this option, and I am sure US Airways folks dont encourage it, but in between conversation I tried to talk to an agent who got a little friendly and was advising me stuff about my plan on doing this and she said there is a fine print or restriction and you cannot get your own miles back..
but you are saying folks here have done it.. so wht she was telling is isnt true right??
also, my other option was to open another usairways account myself.. and ask my wife to transfer the 20K (from your above example) to my other new account.. and then.. merge my 2 accounts into 1..
but again! thanks for your help.. am sure if i stick around here for more i'll learn more tricks!!