USAirways: Up to 20,000 Miles Towards Elite Status

by Gary Leff

USAirways is offering up to 20,000 bonus miles that count towards elite status for booking tickets on its website. The offer requires tickets to be purchased and flown between November 16, 2004 and February 16, 2005.


Registration is required.

The offer is ostensibly to ‘celebrate the 20th anniversary’ of the USAirways mileage program. From their email:






























Celebrating 20 years of Dividend Miles:
1984 Piedmont Airlines Frequent Flyer Bonus Program was born.
1985 USAir unveiled the Frequent Traveler Program and launched the co-branded credit card.
1989 Piedmont Airlines is integrated into USAir.
1997 USAir became US Airways and the program is re-launched as Dividend Miles. Chairman’s Preferred status is created.
2004

US Airways joined the Star Alliance™ network with access to over 770 destinations in 133 countries.

About Gary Leff

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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