50% Bonus on Transferring Hotel Points to US Airways

by Gary Leff

US Airways is offering a 50% bonus on points transferred in from hotel programs through March 31.

Miles have to actually post to your US Airways account with a transfer date by March 31, and the 50% bonus is supposed to take 6-8 weeks to post.

The obvious way to leverage this is with Starwood points, 20,000 points normally yield 25,000 miles but with this offer would yield 37,500 miles. 65,000 Starpoints would get you 120,000 miles — enough for a first class award from the US to North Asia (as far as Hong Kong. Or business class to Singapore, such as on the Newark – Singapore non-stop on Singapore Airlines.

Participating hotel programs are Best Western, Choice, Hilton, Starwood, Club Carlson, Hyatt, Marriott, Priority Club, Wyndham, and La Quinta.

Update: Ben notes that the terms and conditions of the offer say

Dividend Miles members will earn only one bonus when they transfer hotel points into Dividend Miles during the promotion.

I take it then you can earn a bonus on only one transfer, so make your transfer a good one (eg 60,000 Starpoints — you cannot transfer more than 79,999 in one go).

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Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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  2. Or use up some of those club Carlson points floating around in my account especially with the recent triple points.

  3. Nevermind. Saw the transfer ratio. Too much to burn for the limited amount of miles.

  4. Thanks Gary, I had to buy 3k starpoints to get to 60k ($105) but still well worth it!

  5. Stupid question:

    Suppose I want to transfer starwood points (> 20K) to two different US Airways FF accounts from the same Starwood account. Will the second transfer not receive the 50% bonus?

  7. Hmm. These used to be run in June for more than three weeks and usually had better terms. I think the date the transfer was initiated had to be before the promo expired and IIRC they used to wait 6-8 weeks for it to show up on US Airways. Used to dovetail nicely with the Discover America promotion. Not this time. 🙁

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