The Miles You Want to Go to Australia
February 19, 2014
Australia is one of the hardest awards with frequent flyer miles.
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Anatomy of an Award: Booking Etihad Business Class Using American Miles
February 7, 2014
Last month I booked myself an awesome award to the Maldives using AAdvantage miles and flying Etihad Airways Business Class.
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Two Stackable Promotions Mean American Airlines Miles for 1.98 Cents
February 5, 2014
American Airlines is offering two stackable promotions for buying AAdvantage miles that allow miles to be purchased for as little as 1.98 cents:
Get up to a 30% bonus on the miles you purchase until February 28, 2014.
Get a 10% discount on the price of miles until tomorrow February 6, 2014.
How do these promotions stack? How do these promotions compare to previous Buy Miles sales? Is this a price at which you should speculatively buy American Airlines miles?
The miles bonus is tiered.
Why Is Space Disappearing on AA.com? A Common Problem When Attempting to Book Free Oneways
January 28, 2014
I got an email from a reader that demonstrates a common point of confusion about stopovers on American Airlines awards.
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Anatomy of an Award: Nabbing an Extremely Rare First Class Seat from Australia on Qantas
January 19, 2014
I nabbed a scarce First Class award from Australia to Los Angeles on Qantas during peak travel season and added a first class segment on American's new Airbus A321T from Los Angeles to New York-JFK, both in fully flat beds.
I'm incredibly excited to try out another First Class product on the Airbus A380, especially after my great experience on a Thai flight from Paris to Bangkok.
Relative to other Anatomy of Award posts, this one was simple to construct and even easier to book online. However, Qantas premium cabin award space isn't widely available.
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Your Last Chance to Get the US Airways Card Will Be mid-2015
January 17, 2014
The offers for the cards listed in this post have expired, so their links have been removed.
What Would the Perfect Marriage of the American Airlines and US Airways Frequent Flyer Programs Look Like?
January 12, 2014
With US Airways' official oneworld join date still over two months away (March 30), speculation is rampant over the design of their combined frequent flyer program. What will the new award chart look like, especially in light of United's massive devaluation and Delta's unprecedented double devaluation? Which routing rules will the program establish?
Because everyone loves to wonder, this post is meant to highlight the strengths of each program.
Major Correction to Booking American Airlines Flights with US Airways Miles
January 7, 2014
I got something wrong in today's earlier post titled American Airlines Space Bookable with US Airways Miles and US Airways Space Bookable with American Airlines Miles. I corrected the information in that post.
American Airlines Space Bookable with US Airways Miles and US Airways Space Bookable with American Airlines Miles
January 7, 2014
Today marks a huge step forward for the integration of American Airlines and US Airways, which have already legally merged. (See integration time line here.)
Today you can use your American Airlines miles to book awards that include flights on US Airways.
You can also use your US Airways miles to book awards that include flights on American Airlines planes.
Even better: space on both airlines is now showing on both aa.com and usairways.com.
The American Airlines AAdvantage program and US Airways Dividend Miles programs are very different.