Buy AAdvantage Miles With a 50% Bonus

Currently, American Airlines frequent flyer program AAdvantage allows you to buy miles with a 50% bonus! That way, the purchasing price of miles is only 2.15 USD cents per mile.

The regular fare for 1,000 miles is US$47 (~€44). And this does not include 7.5% Federal excise tax.

Here’s the bonus that you can get:

• 5,000 – 9,000 miles: 5% bonus
• 10,000 – 24,000 miles: 10% bonus
• 25,000 – 49,000 miles: 15% bonus
• 50,000 – 64,000 miles: 20% bonus
• 65,000 – 79,000 miles: 25% bonus
• 80,000 – 89,000 miles: 30% bonus
• 90,000 – 99,000 miles: 40% bonus
• 100,000 – 150,000 miles: 50% bonus

The best ratio 225,000 miles for US$4,838 (~€4,543) is 2.15 USD-Cent per mile.

AAdvantage allows you to buy up to 150,000 award miles plus bonus miles per year. Additionally, your AAdvantage account has to be at least 30 days old. Opening up an AAdvantage account makes sense nonetheless, as the next sale will surely happen!

This sale ends on December 31, 2021 05:59 CET.

Redeeming AAdvantage Miles

You can redeem AAdvantage miles not only on American Airlines flights but with every Oneworld member. Hawaiian Airlines and Etihad Airways work as well!

If you want to see how many miles a certain route costs in each booking class, and how good the availability is, feel free to use our search form that will redirect you to AAdvantage’s booking site:

One popular sweet spot is flying in Qatar Airways’ business class between the Middle East and East Asia for 40,000 miles in each direction. For example, this business class oneway flight from Seoul to Abu Dhabi would cost you a total of roughly US$900 (~€845):

Rules

These are the most important rules:

1. You can purchase a maximum of 150,000 AAdvantage miles per calendar year (+ bonus).
2. AAdvantage miles expire after 18 months without activity (earning or redeeming miles).

Summary

You really should only buy miles if you have a plan on how to redeem them and use them as quickly as possible. AAdvantage has changed its redemption structure on multiple occasions, and your miles can lose value as a result. Even redeeming AAdvantage miles on Etihad flights has been limited in the past, and it could happen again at any time.

Source: LoyaltyLobby – Thanks!