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The US Airways Dividend Miles Off-Peak Award Chart

ByThe Miles Professor

I am a big fan of taking advantage of off-peak deals and I definitely like award charts that offer them. US Airways has some very nice deals with its award chart if you happen to be traveling during the right period. If you still haven’t planned your winter trips, you may want to consider a getaway to Europe or South America. Either of these will cost 35,000 miles round-trip in coach.

US Airways even offers off-peak awards to South America in its First Class featuring Envoy Suites. While I haven’t flown these yet, I’ll have a chance to try them out when I go to Rio de Janeiro in February! Though these normally will cost 100,000 miles round-trip, the off-peak award chart offers the award for 60,000 miles.

US Airways Envoy Suites
US Airways Envoy Suites

US Airways Off-Peak Award Destinations

You can check out the US Airways award chart here.

Caribbean (from mainland US and Canada):

  • 25,000 miles round-trip in coach (vs. 35,000 miles peak season).
  • 50,000 miles round-trip in First/Envoy Suites (vs. 60,000 miles peak season).
  • Off peak period: Sep 1 – 30.

Europe (from North American and Hawaii):

  • 35,000 miles round-trip in coach (vs. 60,000 miles peak season).
  • Off peak period: Jan 15 – Feb 28.

South America (from North American and Hawaii):

  • 35,000 miles round-trip in coach (vs. 60,000 miles peak season).
  • 60,000 miles round-trip in First Class/Envoy Suites (vs. 100,000 miles peak season).
  • Off peak period: Feb 3 – 13, March 17 – April 3.

In addition, holders of the Barclays US Airways credit card will receive an additional 5,000 miles discount when flying US Airways operated flights. My cur­rent affil­i­ate link for the US Air­ways Div­i­dend Miles MasterCard offers 30,000 miles after the first pur­chase as well as a $99 com­pan­ion cer­tifi­cate good for tak­ing two addi­tional pas­sen­gers for $99 plus taxes each for any paid ticket on a US Air­ways flight. However, there is also a non-affiliate link on this Fly­erTalk post that peo­ple have reported offers 35,000 miles after first pur­chase, although the land­ing page has no information.

How US Airways Off-Peak Award Destinations Work

US Airways does not allow any one-way award tickets and all tickets must be booked as round-trip. In order to take advantage of US Airways off-peak award pricing, you must travel on US Airways operated flights. This is very different from the American Airlines off-peak award chart that also allows you to travel on partner flights and take advantage of off-peak pricing.

You can redeem your US Airways miles on Star Alliance partners (it is best to search on the United Airlines website for award availability and then call US Airways customer service to price and book the flights). Unfortunately, none of these partner flights can be used with off-peak pricing. The good news, however, is that US Airways will show its own award availability on its website. You can book your off-peak awards right online.

But what happens when your travel falls into the off-peak period, but not completely?

Say you want to fly to Europe in mid-February, but return a few weeks later when the off-peak period ends in March. US Airways will actually price the legs on this award separately. That is, if you can find low-level award availability, you will pay:

  • 17,500 US Airways Dividend miles to fly to Europe.
  • 30,000 US Airways Dividend Miles to return.

Thus, it will be a total of 47,500 miles.

Booking The Off-Peak Award

As previously mentioned, you can book your US Airways award flights online. To search for space, just visit the US Airways website and navigate to Dividend Miles -> Book Award Travel.

Then simply type in your dates. I’ll be checking out flights from New York to Paris in February. You will then see the flight availability at different levels and can select your dates and book.

US Airways Award Search
US Airways Award Search

Have fun planning your next vacation!

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2 Comments

  1. I am now checking the US award chart for Jan-Feb 2014, and there are indeed some nice deals!! Unfortunately, my travel plan doesn’t fit in those good deals, and I am wondering if the US award chart for Jan-Feb 2014 would still change over time (so that some additional deals might come up later)?
    I used to book award tickets from Delta, and their award chart could really change overnight, several times within a two-week period. Just wondering whether this would also be the case with US? Many thanks!

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