As usual, each beginning of a month brings an assortment of “buy miles, get bonus” promos.  If you live in the USA you probably won’t be interested as its cheaper to manufacture spend.  If you live anywhere else, these promos may be a good idea to top up your miles accounts but ONLY if you plan to use them within the next few months.  These promos aren’t good enough to buy miles on speculation.  Whether it is worth it to buy miles vs just paying for a revenue ticket depends on where you are going and what class of service you would be booking in so you need to do the math for both before jumping in on these promos.  Also be sure to click on the links and read all the T&Cs before buying.

US AIRWAYS

These will ultimately turn into AAdvantage miles when the programs combine next year.  The tiered system is very annoying because if you just need a couple thousand to top up you don’t get the maximum bonus.  You need to log into your account to actually see the tiers but most people seem to get this one.  At top levels you would be buying miles for $18.80 per block of 1000 miles.

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UNITED AIRLINES

This one is more unusual in that it is crowd-sourcing the actual bonus.  Everyone gets a minimum of 35% extra but that could go up to 100% extra if over 4500 people buy the deal.

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If the 4500 level is reached it would mean buying miles for $18.80 per block of 1000 miles.

AVIANCA-TACA LIFEMILES

Contrary to other bloggers out there, I use this program for bargain flights within Central and South America so no “tricks” needed for me!  It’s a straightforward 100% promo (gotta love airlines who keep it simple) but it is also the last chance to buy miles for $15.00 per block of 1000 miles as the price increases 15 October to $16.00.

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