Frugal Travel Guy outlines how to take advantage of the US Airways 250% Shopping Bonus to effectively purchase miles at 7/10ths of a penny apiece. If you make 5 purchases or more (up to 10) then all of those purchases earn a 250% bonus. Fewer than 5 purchases and the bonus is lower. But one merchant in particular is crazy-valuable: TrackItBack which gives you stickers with codes on them to attach to things. In theory if you lose those things, people report the item to TrackItBack and they handle getting the item from the person and then to you. Purchases through them earn 40 miles per dollar normally, so you know it’s a high margin business they’re in. With this 250% bonus, purchases will earn 140 miles per dollar. Put another way, you’re buying miles…
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Winning Frequent Flyer Questions Get Answered
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Wendy Perrin‘s Up in the Air ticket giveaway contest, with entries coming from asking the best questions about frequent flyer miles. Wendy has posted the winning questions and Randy Petersen is answering the questions in this Flyertalk thread.