If you have (or can get, very quickly) a Barclays USAirways branded credit card *and* you have (or purchase a trial for $200) USAirways status, you can register for a promo that expires the end of this month that yields a 75% bonus on hotel-point-to-mile transfers. If you can find people who have Marriott, WR, or SPG points to give, you could have a few hundred thousand transferred to you to yield 1 million US miles. In the case of SPG, because every 20K = 25K miles as a standard bonus, every 20K = 43,750 US miles with this promo stacked. Therefore, it would take just about 457K SPG points to get you there. If you had access to Coupon Connection, you could probably find four or five willing participants to do ~100K SPG each with ease. However, SPG points are highly valued versus most other airline/hotel currencies, so you'd have make generous offers to get people to part with them. Marriott has "Travel Package Awards" that allow 120K points (worth much less than SPG points) converted to miles on a 1-1 basis, as long as you have at least 270K to include the nights portion. That could get you 210K US miles a pop, but it would probably be challenging to find five people who could swing that kind of redemption. You could also buy, at a reasonable price, up to 50K MR points per account to help out. Per previous suggestions, Amex Membership Rewards points are also an option and are valid with US, but don't qualify for the 75% bonus offer. You could combine elements of all of the aforementioned ideas to get you to your goal, as well.