US Airways credit card launch offers 50-cent trips
By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | January 3, 2006
For New Englanders, a February trip to Aruba, Cancun, or Montego Bay always sounds nice.
How about if it costs just 50 cents?
That's the prize US Airways is offering to promote a new credit card it's launching today with Barclays Group. The card offers frequent-flyer credits on US Airways equal to 1.5 miles for every $1 spent, which is 50 percent more than most airline-affiliated cards, plus up to 25,000 bonus miles for signing up.
Customers who get the US Airways Dividend Miles World MasterCard before the end of this month will be eligible for first-come, first-served purchases of 2,000 half-dollar round-trip tickets on certain US Airways routes offered online every weekday in February.
Rather than just picking the routes, the airline will let cardholders vote through a website -- www.50centflights.com/ -- on where they'd most like to fly for half a buck, then offer the most popular trips.
US Airways, which merged with America West Airlines in October, flies to 225 destinations worldwide. From Boston's Logan International Airport, it offers nonstop service to 31 cities, such as Aruba; Nassau, Bahamas; and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; and warm US cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix.
New Englanders can also fly nonstop on US Airways from Boston to as-yet-underappreciated winter vacation venues like Harrisburg, Pa., and Indianapolis.
''You never know" what travelers will vote for, said Ben Brake, managing director of marketing for Barclays. ''We may all be surprised."
Peter J. Howe can be reached at howe@globe.com.
By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | January 3, 2006
For New Englanders, a February trip to Aruba, Cancun, or Montego Bay always sounds nice.
How about if it costs just 50 cents?
That's the prize US Airways is offering to promote a new credit card it's launching today with Barclays Group. The card offers frequent-flyer credits on US Airways equal to 1.5 miles for every $1 spent, which is 50 percent more than most airline-affiliated cards, plus up to 25,000 bonus miles for signing up.
Customers who get the US Airways Dividend Miles World MasterCard before the end of this month will be eligible for first-come, first-served purchases of 2,000 half-dollar round-trip tickets on certain US Airways routes offered online every weekday in February.
Rather than just picking the routes, the airline will let cardholders vote through a website -- www.50centflights.com/ -- on where they'd most like to fly for half a buck, then offer the most popular trips.
US Airways, which merged with America West Airlines in October, flies to 225 destinations worldwide. From Boston's Logan International Airport, it offers nonstop service to 31 cities, such as Aruba; Nassau, Bahamas; and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; and warm US cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix.
New Englanders can also fly nonstop on US Airways from Boston to as-yet-underappreciated winter vacation venues like Harrisburg, Pa., and Indianapolis.
''You never know" what travelers will vote for, said Ben Brake, managing director of marketing for Barclays. ''We may all be surprised."
Peter J. Howe can be reached at howe@globe.com.
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