Both American and United came out with new bonus mile offers today. Well… the United one wasn’t officially announced, but the registration page is up. More on that in a moment. American Airlines is offering double AAdvantage miles (redeemable, not elite) on a batch of select Alaska Airlines flights. Registration is required and the travel…
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British Airways Chase Visa Signature credit card returns
[Updated 7/17/12: This offer is no longer available and I’ve removed the links. For archive purposes, I’m leaving the rest of the post untouched.] The 100,000 Avios offer is back for the British Airways Visa Signature credit card from Chase. This iteration of the offer requires a bit more spend on the card to get…
New American and United bonus mile opportunities
There have been quite a few new bonus mile opportunities released by both American and United that I’m just now catching up on. Here’s a summary of some of them: American Airlines BOS-NRT: In celebration of the new nonstop service on Japan Airlines between Boston and Tokyo Narita, earn double redeemable miles every time you…
New American Airlines Citi Platinum Select AAdvantage Visa Signature card
[Updated: This offer had expired.] In case you haven’t already read about the new Citi Platinum Select / AAdvantage Visa Signature card from other bloggers, here’s the scoop. This card has now become more competitive in terms of ancillary benefits compared to previous iterations and those cards of competing airlines, such as the Chase United…
American Airlines brings back Elite Rewards for 2012
This morning I received an email – as I’m sure many of you did – announcing the return of American’s AAdvantage Elite Rewards for 2012. As it was in the past, it’s based on your elite qualifying point total on December 31, 2012, so those who purchase lower-bucket fares will have a significantly more difficult…
Losing your airline elite status? Many carriers make offers to buy it back
Today I received an email from American Airlines offering the opportunity to continue my AAdvantage Platinum status through the end of next February for a modest fee. Last year I took the Platinum elite challenge with American in part to re-experience a carrier I hadn’t flown since 1998, and also to rack up some miles…
Targeted? American Airlines offering accelerated elite status & double miles
Via Live from a Lounge & The Points Guy, it appears American Airlines sent out a targeted promotion to many AAdvantage members yesterday offering both accelerated elite status to Platinum or Executive Platinum and double redeemable award miles. There is a very active Flyertalk thread discussing this promotion, as well. [Updated 2/10/12: Per AAdvantageGeek and…
Award seat analysis: American vs. United – Los Angeles to New York JFK
This second installment of “Award Seat Analysis†looks at the premium Los Angeles to New York JFK nonstop market and I’ve researched availability from American Airlines and United Airlines in April 2012. I specifically searched for award seats at the minimum amount of miles required, namely MileSAAver awards on American and Saver awards on United.…
Scavenger hunt bonus miles from American Airlines are now available
Back in September, American Airlines launched a Facebook contest whereby you went on a “scavenger hunt†by viewing the carrier’s new commercials and answering a few questions. Top prizes included 200,000 AAdvantage miles and one-year of free WiFi access. Just by watching and answering the questions they promised a token 100 miles per commercial and…
American Airlines Citi Executive MasterCard givaway event in L.A. through Thursday
In August and September this year, United Airlines held a special event promoting their new Chase Explorer credit card in various cities where they gave away prizes and oodles of Mileage Plus miles. American Airlines is now also holding an event in Los Angeles tomorrow through Thursday similarly plugging their Citi Executive AAdvantage World Elite…