Share Miles Split 100% Bonus until 6/30
Looks like there's a new share miles bonus as of 6/16. Share miles at 1.5 cents each, plus $30 processing fee and 7.5% excise tax. You get bonus 50%, recipient gets bonus 50%. This is unlike the usual bonus where the recipient gets a 100% bonus.
IMO seems to make maximizing points by transferring back and forth a bit more complicated since you can't completely drain an account of points with this promotion, as 50% of the bonus always winds up back in the original account.
But this can be helpful to top up each other's accounts. If you have accounts A and B, and B is 20,000 miles short of an award, A can gift 20,000 points to B. A gets 10K bonus, B gets 10K bonus. B then gifts back 20K to A, which gets A and B each an additional 10K bonus. A and B both end up with 20K more than before.
Last edited by AwardBee; Jun 16, 2014 at 1:29 am
Reason: adding more