Buy American AAdvantage Miles For 50% Off, Best Price Of The Year: Worth It? - American

Buy American AAdvantage Miles For 50% Off, Best Price Of The Year: Worth It?

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:23:37 +0000

Buying miles & points strategically can be a good value, especially for first and business class travel.

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1990 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:13:28 +0000

If you can actually still find availability in F or J on JL metal using AA points, even at those rates, consider yourself very fortunate, especially for long-haul, N. America to Asia. That’s like finding Q-Suite at 70K these days. Those sweet redemptions are harder and harder to come by.

mickyb — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:30:12 +0000

@Lucky: 300-499k gets 250k bonus miles

VS — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:26:24 +0000

Normally I would have bought miles at this price, but I got a ton of Thank You points that I can transfer any time.

Ryan — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:44:24 +0000

There was an unofficial devaluation of AA miles on JAL metal last week. Business and First is now 80k and 100k miles

Brian Karnofsky — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:56:18 +0000

If you use a Citi AA card, do you get 3x points when purchasing miles?

Randy — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:32:53 +0000

Also note - that AA subtracts any miles you have already purchased for the year - in my case 17K, so the max the site would allow me to buy was 483K (which then excludes the 50%). 483K was close to $10K with the 45% discount.

Randy — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:28:52 +0000

No mention of BA. BA generally has good availability of US to Europe - but of course there is the significant added fee.

Howard — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:14:14 +0000

Has anyone redeemed AA points on Etihad First recently? What is availability like please? Thank you Howard

R B — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:52:10 +0000

Will the AA miles purchase count towards the $200 annual Airline credit from Amex Plat?