American Offering Double AAdvantage Miles For Summer Travel

American Offering Double AAdvantage Miles For Summer Travel

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As passenger numbers have slowly started to pick up in the US, we’ve also seen airlines introduce some promotions incentivizing future travel.

American Airlines has just rolled out such a promotion, for summer travel. This follows American’s promotion a few weeks ago, offering up to 5,000 bonus miles for newly booked flights.

American AAdvantage double miles promo

American Airlines is offering double AAdvantage miles for upcoming flights this summer:

  • Register for this promotion before booking your flight
  • Book by June 30, 2020, and travel through September 30, 2020
  • Earn double miles after completing each eligible flight that’s marketed and operated by American, up to a total of 10,000 bonus miles

American is offering double miles for summer travel

How good of a deal is this promo?

Ordinarily AAdvantage members earn 5x miles per dollar spent, so during this promotion you’d earn 10x miles per dollar spent on your first $2,000 spent on flights. This doesn’t factor in any elite bonuses — Executive Platinum members ordinarily earn 11x miles per dollar spent, so would earn 16x miles per dollar spent (you don’t earn double miles on your elite bonus).

Personally I value AAdvantage miles at ~1.5 cents each, so to me the incremental 5x miles are equivalent to a 7.5% return on American flights.

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Travel flexibility policy

Not only can you earn bonus miles for summer travel, but American is also offering flexibility when you plan a trip for this summer. If you book by June 30 and fly by September 30, you can change your flights without a change fee (though fare differences would still apply).

For some it might make sense to speculatively book a trip to earn double miles, and worst case scenario you can rebook the ticket at a later date.

American tickets come with lots of flexibility right now

Bottom line

American is offering double AAdvantage miles for the first $2,000 worth of tickets booked and flown between now and September 30, 2020. This earns you an extra 5x AAdvantage miles per dollar spent, which I value at an incremental return of ~7.5%.

Will you benefit from this AAdvantage double miles promotion?

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  1. Ryan Guest

    Tad: I checked the American website. I believe trips booked prior to registering do not count. I'd recommend perhaps cancelling the trip and re-booking if you can. I'm not sure if there is a cancel fee on AA right now.

  2. Tad Guest

    Will trips that have already been booked count? I've got a trip from Tokyo to Dallas later this month, and I would not mind double miles on that one bit.

  3. Anthony Thomas Guest

    Registered, just in case. Highly unlikely I'll get on a plane in the next 3 months though!

    But who knows, maybe things are holding steady such that in 2 months and 3 week's time I give it a shot!

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Ryan Guest

Tad: I checked the American website. I believe trips booked prior to registering do not count. I'd recommend perhaps cancelling the trip and re-booking if you can. I'm not sure if there is a cancel fee on AA right now.

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Tad Guest

Will trips that have already been booked count? I've got a trip from Tokyo to Dallas later this month, and I would not mind double miles on that one bit.

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Anthony Thomas Guest

Registered, just in case. Highly unlikely I'll get on a plane in the next 3 months though! But who knows, maybe things are holding steady such that in 2 months and 3 week's time I give it a shot!

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