US Airways | Online security


Online security
At US Airways we are committed to the security and safety of all transactions that take place on usairways.com.

To secure the information we collect online, maintain data precision, prevent unauthorized access and ensure proper use of data collections, our website servers use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. Encryption takes your transactions, from entering your password to your credit card number and transforms transactions into a string of unrecognizable number patterns before entering the Internet. Both US Airways' computers and the browser you use on the Web understand the mathematical formulas, called algorithms, that turn your airline transactions into numeric code and back again into meaningful information.

While US Airways and your computer can easily translate this code back to meaningful information, this process would be an almost unattainable task for unauthorized intruders. There are billions of possible keys that could possibly solve each formula, but only one will actually work. Every time you begin a transaction on usairways.com, your computer and US Airways' systems agree on an indiscriminate number that serves as the key for the rest of the exchange.

With our commitment to security at US Airways, shopping on usairways.com is safe and secure.