![]() 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. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.
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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
So, do register for the promo, just in the off-beat chance you might fly in the month of October 2020. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. ![]() 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:
So, sign up for AARP rewards for free as well as earn a free gift and some AA miles in the process.
Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. 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. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. ![]() 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! Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. ![]() 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.
American Airlines: Earn up to 4,000 American Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.
United Airlines: Earn up to 5,000 United miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.
Southwest Airlines: Earn up to 3,000 Southwest Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.
Alaska Airlines: Earn up to 1,500 Alaska Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.
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!
Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. ![]() 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:
Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. 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.
American Airlines AAdvantage earn up to 4000 bonus miles: Earn bonus American Airlines AAdvantage miles for shopping from 10/30/2017 and 11/19/2017. The American Airlines AAdvantage miles are also tiered as below.
Note that the bonus miles end before black Friday and are there to pull you in shopping before the actual holiday season starts :). Take advantage of these if you plan to shop during the promotion period.
Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. ![]() 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
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. While on the surface the program looks interesting you might be better off getting discount using frequently provided Groupon promotions for 10% to 20% off using a promotion code. Also you can earn miles or cashback today by going through various cashback site. Using the special promo code for airline miles/hotel points would potentially invalidate the cashback earning through cashback sites. Still at times it might be useful to earn valuable miles with Alaska Airlines or American Airlines by using the promo code with this new Groupon feature.
So, remember this additional feature when you are looking to bank on useful miles and there are no other handy promotions available at that time. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. ![]() There is a targeted promotion valid till 06/25/2017 for earning easy 1500 United Airlines and/or American Airlines miles by participating in the dining program offered by these programs. Check your email to see if you are targeted with the offer. The promotion gives 500 miles for each restaurant visit up to 3 visits. So you can earn 1500 miles in total. Below are the actual terms of the promotion for those who are targeted.: Before June 25, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, you must dine at any participating restaurant, bar, or club and spend a minimum of $1. Limit one bonus-qualifying visit per restaurant per day. The interesting part is that there is an identical offer for both American Airlines and United Airlines. As you can see the offer requires only spending $1+ on each visit and so you can easily earn 1500 miles for minimal spend out of pocket on dining. 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:
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:
So, check your email and get going for easy American Airlines AAdvantage or United MileagePlus miles. |
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