While combing through the rules of US Airways' mileage program a year or so ago, I read about their “Off-peak” awards, which are a great value. However, since the awards require travel on US Airways’ metal (something I generally avoid), I had completely forgotten about them until Troy's blog post this morning.
Off-peak awards are offered on US Airways operated flights, booked with US Airways miles, as follows:
- US/Canada to the Caribbean (September 1-30): 25,000 coach / 50,000 first
- N. America/Hawaii to S. America (May 1-31; October 1-31): 35,000 coach / 60,000 business
- N. America/Hawaii to Europe (January 15 - February 28): 35,000 coach / 60,000 business
The deal gets even better if you have a US Airways Premier World MasterCard, which provides a 5,000 mile discount for each passenger on an itinerary booked with the cardholder.
So, for just 55,000 miles, you can travel in business class to Rio or one of US Airways’ 15 European destinations – Madrid, Paris, Rome, London, Frankfurt, Dublin, Manchester, Barcelona, Athens, Venice, Munich, Zurich, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Glasgow.
Yes, unfortunately, the flights are on US Airways metal, but if you are lucky, your flight will be on an Airbus A330-200, equipped with US Airways' new Envoy Suites.
I love Europe in the winter since I love snow and since it’s less crowded, so I look forward to booking one of these awards for January or February 2012!
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Sounds like a great deal (and I assume you mean 2011, not 2012)!
Let's see if US has any big offers this month, like last December.
I actually do mean 2012! Thanks to American's European fare error on Tuesday, my schedule is pretty full for January and February 2011.
@Gene: Kudos to you for cashing in on that AA oops!
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