After the excellent Share miles promotion that US Airways had, the December offer to buy and gift Dividend Miles is more traditional with 100% bonus. Note that this offer is open for all.
You can get up to 100% bonus (max 50K miles) for buying/gifting US Airways miles by December 20, 2013. You can access US Airways web page for buying miles here.
The bonus is dependent of the number of miles you buy or gift.
The price of a mile under this 100% bonus offer is 1.88 cents each.
Does it make sense to buy Dividend Miles at 1.88 cents each?
US Airways has number of promotions yearly for buying, gifting, and transferring in points from hotel programs to Dividend Miles.
This 1.88 cents per mile offer has been one of the lowest purchase offers. There was an offer for transferring miles earlier this month during which you could “purchase” miles at 1.1 cents each, but that offer was maxed at 50K miles.
Conclusion
If you have firm plans to use these miles and the availability exists on Star Alliance carriers, I would go ahead and buy. Of course, these miles will be usable for flights on Oneworld carriers next year and will eventually turn to AAdvantage miles.
If you make your US Airways Dividend Miles purchase using the link above, you are supporting LoyaltyLobby at the same time.
Here are the terms and conditions of this purchase offer:
Offer available for purchases made between December 15th 00:00:01 PT and December 20th 2013, 23:59:59 PT. All purchases are non-refundable. Bonus miles will be awarded upon completion of the transaction. The maximum number of Buy and Gift Bonus miles that can be received by one member for this offer is 50,000 bonus miles. For Gift purchases, bonus will be awarded to the recipient. All miles purchased beyond this limit will not be eligible for a bonus. All transaction inquiries must be submitted to US Airways Dividend Miles within 90 days from end of promotion. Offer is subject to change. Offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Share transactions are not eligible for bonus. Only purchases made online are eligible for the bonus. Please note that Dividend Miles accounts less than 12 days old are not permitted to Buy, Share or Gift miles. For Gift and Share transactions, the recipient account must also be 12 days old. All US Airways Dividend Miles terms and conditions apply. Visit usairways.com/dividendmilesfor details.
Miles are sold for $0.035 per mile plus a tax recovery charge of 7.5%. GST/HST will be charged to Canadian residents. Miles purchased through Buy, Share or Gift Miles do not count towards Dividend Miles Preferred status. All other Dividend Miles Terms and Conditions apply. Miles may be used based on award availability at the time of booking. Please note that Dividend Miles accounts less than 12 days old are not permitted to Buy, Share or Gift Miles. All purchases are non-refundable.