Virgin Atlantic was the first airline to offer elite status credit when redeeming miles. Delta, which owns 49% of Virgin, copied them. And then United followed. Now American Airlines appears to be testing something similar.
This is a targeted offer, but it’s widely targeted. There appear to be offers of 50 Loyalty Points per 1,000 miles redeemed, and also 100 Loyalty Points per 1,000 miles redeemed. The former is roughly equivalent to the Delta and United programs, while the latter is clearly more generous – which suggests to me that if American makes this a permanent feature of the program it’ll be something closer to the lower offer.
If you’ve been targeted, you’ll find the offer in the promotions section of your AAdvantage account. I had an offer waiting there for me, but American hadn’t let me know to look.
- Register by October 7, 2024
- Book after registration and by October 7, 2024
- Fly by December 31, 2024
- Earn 100 loyalty points per 1,000 miles redeemed (for the offer I received, promotion code RP924)
- Earn up to 20,000 Loyalty Points
Only American Airlines-marketed and operated flights count. You actually have to reserve the flight and ticket after registration – ticketing a previously-held award won’t count. You may not see the loyalty points earned under this promotion for 6-8 weeks.
What’s interesting is that you can earn points when other people travel under your miles. What matters is that the person who registers for this offer redeems for a flight – it can be for their own travel or for someone else’s.
(HT: One Mile at a Time)
Smart (assuming the data from this experiment turns out good).
Hotel chains let you accrue progress toward status when you redeem points. Airlines should do the same.
The only unfortunate thing is AA still sucks and continues to suck.
Sucks to suck.
@Gary, there is also an offer of only 20 miles per 1,000 miles flown as that offer is in my promotions area of the AA website.
I got a 20 miles per 1000 miles redeemed offer. XP last year and PP this year. Not thrilled about the low offer but won’t affect my plans really.
Nothing showing in either my account or my wife. We have status already but it would be nice to earn points for miles we book every year.
Previous post should be 20 Loyalty Points per 1,000 miles flown.
Interesting. My offer is 10% back. But I’m low on AA as I’m a 1K United and as SFO/EWR said… AA Sucks.
Here’s my offer
Book flights with AAdvantage® miles and earn a 10% award rebate.
How to earn:
Register for this promotion before booking your flights
Book award flights by October 7, 2024
Complete travel by December 19, 2024
Earn a 10% award rebate
Your award rebate will post once travel is complete. Earn up to 50,000 bonus miles.
My offer was 20 points per 1,000. My balance is 289K.
I registered but I’ve already bailed on AA EXP after 20+ years for BA Gold thanks to the status match earlier this year.
Got the 50 for 1000 offer . It is mind boggling that AA is , once again , last in initiating a pro customer move to match UA and DL. They continue to do absolutely nothing about their woefully uncompetitive million miler program. And yet they wonder why they cannot achieve the revenue premium enjoyed by DL and UA .
While I like this potential change, I question why AA might go this route? Wouldn’t it lead to lower cash sales as customers cash in more miles?
No offer. I’m EXP with about 600k unused miles and 112K loyalty points for the year.
But I also have 9 upcoming flights so they probably don’t see the reason to incentive me.
I do not have this offer, and I have at least 40k of miles used in the period available, so I wonder if their offerings are only to folks who do not have any award travel booked
I got it…. 100 per 1000.
I wonder if it’s based on your mileage balance.
100 per 1000 for me. EP