Comments on: US Airways Increases Award Redemption Pricing January 6

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:46:04 +0000

Looking forward to earning OnePass miles on all future US Airways flight until Chaper 7 comes.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:33:02 +0000

I’ve been trying to get more info from US Airways to see if I can book an international flight before this goes into effect and all I get is the run-around.

This past year they were so good about booking a flight. I got a US Airways Master Card so I could build up my miles to use to pay for a flight in 2010.

I am very upset with US Airways and if they keep giving me the run-around I’m going to transfer my miles to an airline that has better awards options and customer service (does one exist?) and will tell everyone I know about the slap in the face I received from US Airways.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:57:31 +0000

I haven’t set foot on a US plane since I was in school in upstate NY… but they have proved a very good place to dump and launder miles for *A awards.
Their chart has in my opinion been one of the oddest ones in *A, and if they bump the current award levels up it will be a further loss. When we lived in Asia they had two great awards from Asia that must have been set by someone who had never left CLT and had no sense of geography. The west coast- europe business award is still a solid value, we really don’t want to lose that one.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:20:15 +0000

@Jeff, i do not think US Airways will do anything like gutting their Star chart. What I projected is that they would increase their Star chart along the lines of increases in the ‘low’ award level redemption rates — e.g. making business class North America to Europe 100k on the Star chart to match the new cost on US metal.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:41:03 +0000

I really don’t see why you feel US is now more likely to change their partner chart than before…

Going back to the AC comparison, Aeroplan offers a parallel, up-to-the-last-seat “ClassicPlus” award system for AC metal that actually gets into more eye-watering territory than the new US system – there is no real cap, rather the mileage level is tied to the real-time market price of the seat. I have seen trans-Atlantic biz awards in the 600,000 mile range.

AC’s Star chart remained unchanged after the intoduction of ClassicPlus. CP serves a purpose – if you are hard up at the last minute and NEED a particular AC filght, you can bend over and get it. Everyone else can play the “plan around the availability” game. One does not affect the other.

If someone is stupid enough to give US 360K miles for ANY US flight, it behooves US to take that deal, but I am not convinced AT ALL there will be a Star chart change… and I am keeping a close watch on this situation as I am ready to dump 40K SPG into US and then transfer it under their 100% match promo.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:10:43 +0000

No doubt they will be introducing some credit cards with hefty bonuses. This airline doesn’t value its frequent fliers, they have repeatedly shown that.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:26:18 +0000

I am furious that US Airways is making these huge changes to their award chart! They seem to be heading in the direction of what Delta is doing. My fear is that the other airlines (would AA?) might follow suit and create a new completely watered-down value of miles! This doesn’t say anything about how many miles they will charge to Asia in Business or First…

Part of me asks if US Airways can just finally go bankrupt and stop running!?!