New American Airlines Targeted Promotions For Flying In Premium Cabins

In the promotions tab of your American AAdvantage profile you may find an offer of bonus miles for flying in premium cabins prior to the Christmas holidays.

I was offered 15,000 miles:

There’s also a 25,000 mile bonus version of the offer.

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Both offers had the same terms:

  • Register by November 11
  • Flights booked (or even put on hold) prior to registering do not count
  • Flights departing November 22, November 30, December 1 and December 2 are excluded.
  • Fly 6 eligible flights in First, Business or Premium Economy by December 19, 2024

For folks who generally book, for instance, domestic first class tickets and haven’t booked their November and December travel it’s a nice offer – especially for flights you’d have taken anyway.

While common, as a customer I find it annoying that previously-booked travel doesn’t count. They don’t want to spend money incentivizing bookings they’ve already gotten! But of course you can usually cancel and rebook, especially if fares haven’t gone up.

Coach tickets with a paid buy up or upgrade aren’t going to count. The offer is specific to “published fares in First booked in F or A; Business booked in J, C, D, I or R, or Premium Economy booked in W or P on eligible flights.” Codeshare flights operated by other airlines don’t count – it has to be both marketed and operated by American Airlines (or American Eagle).

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Comments

  1. My promotion is 10,000 Bonus Miles for flying two flights. The rest of the terms are the same.

  2. My bonus is 10k loyalty points for 4 flights. I find this offer to be abnormally generous. It’s a welcomed addition to the 20k loyalty points I receive from the Citi Executive card.

  3. I find incentives of bonus miles do not excite me at all. If they offered loyalty points, I would sit up and take notice.

  4. My offer was 10k loyalty points after 4 flights. This is an abnormally generous offer. A promotion for loyalty points is a welcomed surprise!

  5. Lots of different versions floating around. Mine is a choice of 10k miles or LPs after four flights; all other terms the same.

  6. Of course, nothing in my account. And that pisses me off. I have some award travel booked, but there’s a 3-week window with nothing to do for a retiree. Why can’t they offer this to me as well? I might be enticed to go somewhere, but I won’t without an incentive. I have planned out my award travel (Doha, Morocco, Portugal) on miles, but there is time for more trips, and I have the money. Those idiots.

  7. Received 20k offer after 4 eligible flights. Would a round trip ticket with one stop each way count as four flights?

  8. For me $10K miles (not LPs) for 4 flights. But a short time window and flights are already booked for that window and doesn’t include cash upgrades.

  9. For domestic tickets, First class is booking into I inventory, but the terms of the promo clearly state “First in A or C, Business in I”. Are they going to say my first class flights in I don’t qualify?

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