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I have to admit, although I’m quite happy right now with my United airline miles credit card, and have no intentions of jumping ship any time soon, I was tempted also to sign up the US Airways airline miles credit card from Visa.

They said they were only offering it to people that were on their flights and already flying with them, and they actually offered on my trip to Costa Rica and back from Costa Rica, on the plane as a presentation done by their flight attendants. They really wanted to get sign ups for this card apparently, because what they were offering seemed extremely generous and on the border of being too good to be true.

The US airways may qualify as one of the best airline miles credit cards, because they offered the following. They said that if you applied and were accepted as a customer, you would get one free round trip ticket for yourself just for signing up, and also get $99 accompanying tickets for another passenger of your choice. Pretty good, huh!?

Also they said there would be periodical offers and promotions for extremely cheap airfares to their customers, and they would have promotions quite often to buy accompanying passenger tickets for the $99 price as they offered at the beginning. There were several other benefits, and the card I believe had a yearly participation fee of $75, which is almost the standard now for airline miles credit cards as far as I know.

I can see why several people on each flight where this offer was presented had asked for the application sheets. I was tempted, but I figured that I want to really concentrate all my mile earning on my United card since United is a known quantity (although I did have a pleasant experience with US Airways, even never flying with them before). I’d say about twenty people on each flight asked for the applications, so that was some pretty smart marketing on US Airways’s part!