No, not gifting - buy and share only.
Not sure if I have misunderstood this comment but the current promo is for buying and gifting (not sharing which is significantly better value).
Not sure what
serfty is alluding to here. The current promotion (or at least the one I received an email for, assuming everyone else is the same) is for Buy and Gift Miles, not Share Miles. (Share Miles promotions have caps too, usually the same amount, but this is not a Share Miles promotion).
It's a 50k bonus points cap applicable to all (eligible) members during the promotion. As I would understand it, there is no separate bonus caps for Buying and Gifting - it is a common cap. Which I have given an example previously to try and explain.
Didn't receive the email.
For the dummies is this the promotion where miles cost ~1c/mile?
1.8c/m after taxes and fees
To be technical, it comes to USD 1.88c per mile after sales taxes, assuming you purchase the full 50k and get a 50k bonus (total 100k miles received). Purchasing less miles, even at the 100% bonus level, will increase the cost due to one of the fees being a fixed price.
Sharing Miles usually comes in at around USD 1.1c per mile with a 100% Share Miles promotion, with the possible exception of the last Share Miles promotion where the cost was increased.
Both Mrs Lime & self USAirways members, so I could buy 50K and she could gift me 50K?, with promo that would be 200K.
I'm pretty sure no matter how you do it, you'll only get 50k bonus and I think thats the limit. If you're gifted 50k, you won't receive the 50k bonus if you've already bought 50k and received the 50k bonus.
This is my understanding also.
As I said above, I believe it's a common cap. So in the example of
Limewood, the first purchase would result in
Limewood's account increasing by 100k (50k bought, 50k as a bonus). Now if
Mrs Limewood gifts
Limewood 50k after that,
Limewood's balance would then be 150k. There is no further bonus awarded during this promotion because
Limewood has exhausted the number of miles receivable as a bonus.
The same result would happen if the two transactions were reversed, e.g.
Mrs Limewood gifts to
Limewood first, then
Limewood buys 50k into his account.
Bonus miles, for the purposes of counting up the cap, are scored against the
recipient of the miles. Hence,
Limewood could buy 50k into his account, get a 50k bonus and he will not receive any more bonus points for the duration of the promotion. But
Limewood can gift as many miles to as many accounts as he wants; as long as those target accounts have some bonus cap remaining, they will all receive bonus points equal to the cap not exhausted.