American Airlines miles expire after 18 months of no activity. While there are several ways to earn American Airlines miles without actually flying them; as of now (Till May 3rd) you can easily extend your miles for another 18 months by participating in "Instant Win" game. American Airlines is running its 40th Anniversary Instant Win and Sweepstakes which ends on May 3rd, 2021 and of several "instant win's" the most interesting one's are earning 40 AA miles and 400 AA miles in instant win.

So if you are based out of U.S. you can participate in this instant win and Sweepstakes and can easily extend your miles (Hoping you win at least once the "40 miles" instant win) using their "spin the globe" Instant win game.

While American Airlines have paused the AAdvantage miles expiration till June 30th, 2021; these instant win game can help extend your miles longer if you have no plans of travel as of now or have some valuable miles idle in your American Airlines account and no activity. So go ahead and get this easy win by AAdvantage Instant game.

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American Airlines has a new promotion to earn 250 AA miles back for the award flight taken between Oct 1st and Oct 31st, 2020. 250 AA miles will be credited back to the AAdvantage account of the person who will be flying on the award redemption after the award flight has been completed. 

You can register for this promotion here till Oct 7th, 2020. The registration must be done before the award ticket is put on hold or ticketed. The promo allows to earn up to 2,000 AA miles. While its not a huge amount of miles to encourage to fly in this COVID-19 climate, it is still worth registering just in case you might take a flight on the award ticket in the month of October 2020.

The full terms of the promotion are below:
Promotion code:   R3Q20

• Register by 11:59 p.m. CT on October 7, 2020, and before creating a flight reservation, redeeming miles and traveling in order for your award flights to count toward this promotion
• Your AAdvantage® number must be included in your flight reservation for your travel to count
• Promotion miles can only be credited to the account of the ticketed passenger
• If booking tickets for another traveler, they must also register for this promotion during the registration window and before creating a reservation to be eligible for this promotion
• Offer applies to eligible award flights created and booked between the day you register and October 31, 2020
• You must register for the promotion before putting a flight on hold for that reservation to count
• Eligible flights must be flown between October 1, 2020, and October 31, 2020
• Award flights must be marketed by American Airlines and operated by American or American Eagle
• Non-flight awards, including upgrade awards, aren’t eligible for this promotion
• Award flights ticketed before registration aren’t eligible for the promotion
• You’ll earn 250 promotion award miles for each eligible flight once it posts to your account

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So, do register for the promo, just in the off-beat chance you might fly in the month of October 2020.

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If you have ever thought of getting discount on your British Airways Flight ticket you would have come across AARP discount on British Airways flight purchase. As per AARP website anyone age 50+ can become a member and take benefits of variety of offers present. But in reality the age criteria is not enforced and anyone can become a member for a standard annual rate of $16 or discounted rate of $12 for the first year when you select "1 Year Automatic Renewal".

Currently you can stack multiple offers to get great deal on membership. You can score 1,000 American Airlines Miles + 1,200 Swagbucks + Free gift for just $12. To top it you can meet some credit card spend using AARP Rewards or score some gift cards if you are in gift cards.

Apart from above AARP have array of benefits available to member's including great travel benefits shown below.

So here is how the stacking would work:

• Sign up for SimplyMiles using your American Airlines credentials and any MasterCard which is linked to this account. You can see more details on this program here. If you are lucky you will see AARP offer to earn 1,000 AA miles in your account. Add that offer to your SimplyMiles account. Now when you sign up for AARP using the linked MasterCard you will earn 1,000 AA miles. You do not need to use the "shop" button from SimplyMiles. Just use the linked MasterCard for payment of AARP membership.
• Login or Sign up for Swagbucks. Once signed in click here and you should hopefully see shop option to earn 1,200 SB + free gift. Click through "View Offer" and pay for membership for $12 using the SimplyMiles linked MasterCard.
• Sign up for AARP Rewards using the credentials for your AARP Membership. You earn reward points for doing various activity on your account. You can go to "redeem" option where you can purchase discounted gift card's as well as redeem your earned reward points for gift card's purchase as well! 

So, sign up for AARP rewards for free as well as earn a free gift and some AA miles in the process. 

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Due to spread of Coronavirus named COVID-19 majority of airlines in the U.S.A. are now offering free cancellation (in some cases free change of dates). There is a catch though for all of them where the refund will be provided as a credit for the future ticket (again the length of validity of that credit varies). The policy are different for different airlines in regards to when the tickets were booked and the flight date till which the policy would be applicable.

The good news is that if you have any travel plans within the eligible dates then the time is to book NOW!! Since you are eligible to cancel without any reason you can be assured that if your plans change you will not lose your flight money completely (although it would be tied to particular airline only). The policy also applies to "basic economy" fares which are the most restrictive otherwise.

That being said the best deal out there is with JetBlue Airways as there policy applies equally to both revenue fares purchased as well as Award Tickets. So below are the links for major U.S. Airlines regarding their change/cancellation policy.

JetBlue Airways: Policy applies to both revenue fare as well as Award Tickets. The refund will be provided in "JetBlue travel bank" credit for revenue ticket and taxes+fees on award tickets. The credit expires 1 year from initial issue date.

Alaska Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only. The refund will be provided in "Alaska Wallet" which is valid for travel till 28th Feb 2021.

American Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only and only "changes" are allowed. Also there are few "gotcha" in terms of the valid dates of booking and travel which you need to be aware of.

Delta Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only and only "changes" are allowed. Both domestic and international tickets can be changes without paying change fees when booked within applicable dates.

United Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only and both changes and cancellations are allowed. For cancelled tickets the original ticket value will be retained for future travel up to 12 months from the original ticket issue date. Also this applies only to tickets purchase within applicable dates.

So, if you have any travel plans within the applicable booking cancellations dates now is the best time to book it.

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Lot of Airlines where you accrue miles have different mileage expiration policies. American Airlines miles expire after 18 months if there is no accrual or redemption activity on the mileage account. There are many ways on extending the expiration of American Airlines miles and you can see most of the partners here. But most of activity requires you to make some purchase either through ​AA Shopping mall or perform donation to participating partner non-profit.  

You only need to earn 1 mile to extend the validity of your American Airlines miles by another 18 months and there is an easier way to do just that. You can register for AwardWallet service for tracking your miles (If you are not register, It is free to join with option of upgrade for a free. You can use my referral here) . After registering you can add your American Airlines account to your AwardWallet account (You can also add other users whose account you manage and whose American Airlines miles you wish to extend to this AwardWallet account).

Once registered if you visit any of the blog posts they publish and comment you will earn 5 American Airline miles for 1 or more comment on unique blog posts published by them (Once the comment is approved and once per day). You need to be logged in your AwardWallet account and just before you submit the comment you can select the American Airlines (AA) account you wish to credit 5 miles.  The miles usually gets deposited within 5 business days once the comment is approved. You can read more about this feature here.

So, next time if you have American Airlines (AA) miles expiring and you want to extend them quickly you have AwardWallet to your rescue!

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It's shopping season again and some of the major airline affiliated shopping portals are offering tiered bonus miles for spending money at various advertised merchants. Below are the current mileage bonus promotions from various airlines shopping portals.

Delta Airlines:
Earn up to 1,000 bonus Delta Skymiles for shopping from 11/05/2018 to 11/18/2018.

• Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 1,000 bonus miles when you spend $300.

American Airlines:
Earn up to 4,000 American Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 2,000 bonus miles when you spend $600.
• Earn 4,000 bonus miles when you spend $1,200.

United Airlines:
Earn up to 5,000 United miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 2,500 bonus miles when you spend $750.
• Earn 5,000 bonus miles when you spend $1500.​

Southwest Airlines:
Earn up to 3,000 Southwest Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• ​Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 1,000 bonus miles when you spend $500.
• Earn 3,000 bonus miles when you spend $1,000.

Alaska Airlines:
Earn up to 1,500 Alaska Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• Earn 300 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 750 bonus miles when you spend $300.
• ​Earn 1,500 bonus miles when you spend $500.

Each one of you would values miles from specific airlines differently. So, based on your preference as well as amount you are looking to spend you might want to lean towards specific airlines shopping portal. Enjoy the bonus miles on items which might be discounted earlier then the Thanksgiving!

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American Airlines is out with another shopping promotion where you can earn up to 1500 AAdvantage bonus miles for shopping. The promotion is valid from 12/01 to 12/17 and has tiered earning for the bonus miles which are on top of the miles you would earn at a participating shopping merchant.

The earning of miles is as follows:

• 500 bonus miles when you spend $150
• 1500 bonus miles when you spend $300

So if you still have some shopping left or have Amex offers for the merchants where purchasing gift card trigger the AAdvantage Portal miles payout then make sure to remember about this promotion when deciding which portal to use for cash back or miles.

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As we get in to the holiday shopping season various major airlines are promoting their shopping portals by providing shopping bonus points/miles. I wrote about United MileagePlus bonus here. Below are the shopping bonus details for Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards program and American Airlines AAdvantage program.

​Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards earn up to 3000 bonus points:
As with United Airlines this is a tier promotion as well. Earn bonus Southwest Rapid Rewards points for shopping from 10/30/2017 to 11/20/2017. You earn points based on tier spending as below.

• Tier 1 bonus: 500 bonus points for qualifying purchases of at least $150 - $499.99
• Tier 2 bonus: 1,000 bonus points for qualifying purchases of at least $500 - $999.99
• Tier 3 bonus: 3,000 bonus points for qualifying purchases of $1,000 or more

Groupon recently announced loyalty program partnership where you can earn Airlines miles or Hotel points with participating airlines and hotels by using a airline/hotel specific promo code. The current earning for Airlines and Hotels are as below:
Airlines

• New customer bonus for local purchase of $30 or more = 1,000 miles
• Local = 5 miles/dollar spent
• Getaways = 4 miles/dollar spent
• Goods = 3 miles /dollar spent

Hotels

• New customer bonus for local purchase of $30 or more = 2,000 points
• Local = 10 points/dollar spent
• Getaways = 8 points/dollar spent
• Goods = 6 points /dollar spent

Below are the current participating partners:

• Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
• American Airlines AAdvantage
• United MileagePlus
• JetBlue True Blue
• Choice Privileges
• IHG Rewards Club
• LaQuinta Returns

When you click the link here you need to login and select the partner program in which you need to earn miles/points as and enter your membership number on the screen as shown below:

After confirming your membership number you will be given the airline/hotel specific promo code. For e.g. below is what you would see for Alaska Airlines.

Unfortunately as I mentioned this seems to be a targeted offer so check your email to see if you have received this offer. But If you are not a member of any of these dining programs there is still a nice sign up offer for both of them.

Earn up to 4000 United Airlines MileagePlus miles:
MileagePlus Dining has offer where you can earn up to 4000 miles for dining by joining on or before June 30th 2017 and dining within the first 30 days. The earning bonus are as below:

• 500 miles for signing up and registering your debit/credit card for dining program.
• 1000 miles for spending $25 or more on your first participating restaurant visit.
• 500 miles for spending $25 or more on your next participating restaurant visit -- up to 5 times. So in total you can earn 2500 miles here.

For additional terms kindly check the details here.
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Earn up to 2000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles:
American Airlines dining has offer where you can earn up to 2000 miles for dining by joining before July 31st 2017 and dining within the first 30 days. The earning bonus are as below:

• 1000 miles for spending $25 or more on your first participating restaurant visit.
•  500 miles for spending $25 or more on your second participating restaurant visit.
• 500 miles for spending $25 or more on your third participating restaurant visit.

For additional terms kindly check the details here.

​So, check your email and get going for easy American Airlines AAdvantage or United MileagePlus miles.