For quite some time, it has been possible to redeem American AAdvantage miles for Flagship Lounge access. The airline has now rolled out an interesting new opportunity, giving select members the ability to redeem miles for Flagship First Dining.
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Unless one is expecting to down ridiculous amount of cheap alcohol like college kids, you're better off spending $150-200 at a restaurant.
Now if you can top off your Flagship Lounge access with the Dining for $50, that would be something to consider.
Platinum Pro, already passed 125k lps, offer is 24k miles with 2 available. That's often times enough for a domestic or Mexico roundtrip ticket, so this is a very bad value to me.
If I was a little less conservative with my tree planting donation, maybe it would be a consideration.
Here is the full offer in my account. I see the benefit if travelling with two guests and have a layover of 3 hours or more. Exec Plat with current year 250k LP.
Flagship® First Dining visit pass
Enjoy our complimentary First-class dining experience available inside select Flagship® Lounges, leaving more time to relax in flight for you and up to 2 guests traveling with you. To get the most from your experience, we suggest you arrive at least 2 hours before your flight.
Flagship® First Dining
Select an option to use miles:
Explain my optionsWhy are there multiple options?Some options may be unavailable until you earn enough Loyalty Points to unlock them or have enough miles to buy them. The expiration date and cost in miles of an option is based on the qualification year it’s earned.For example, an option you earned last qualification year may have a different expiration date and and cost less than that same option you earned this qualification year.
Explain my options
20,000 miles
2 available through March 31, 2026
24,000 miles
2 available through March 31, 2026
The Flagship lounges used to be good, now they are horrible. Its the same food that only changes every 6 months? So if youre a loyal travel going abroad, you would be eating the same 3 buffet dishes. Horrible and not worth it. Capital one or Chase lounges are better.
Now, flagship dining is better but at the same time, id rather spend $200 and have a nice meal at a restaurant rather than using flagship first dining.
"If you have a very long layover, it could represent a decent value"
Just curious, but how long does the layover have to be in order to justify paying the amount to enter? 3 hours or more? 5 hours or more?
AA has a FFD room at LAX. AA has failed to reopen it. It just sits there. For four years, it's been reopening soon. And, those who are traveling in Flagship First are stiffed.
Please don't make me waste even more time at the airport, but give me better food and wine options on board instead of the swill you serve.
AA: do you realize you're in the TRANSPORTATION business? Make that part better and focus on making travel much more EFFICIENT and enjoyable instead of wasting time to (try to) compete against restaurants and selling meals on the ground.
24k for me, 2 available. I have 126k LP right now. This could cover three one way flights to the Caribbean! ...but I haven't gotten any aspirational redemptions with my AA miles recently with how competitive oneworld awards have been, so maybe I'll end up doing this someday. Frustrating you can't do this for Chelsea though, since I'm based in NYC
Please don't make me do nothing at the airport, but give me better food and wine options during the entire trip instead of the swill you serve on board.
AA: do you realize your premium cabins are in the HOSPITALITY business? Make that part better and focus on making travel much more EXPERIENTIAL and enjoyable instead of wasting time to (try to) compete against FedEx and quickly getting to a point on the ground.
Jake could FedEx himself overnight in a flat rate box. Let the rest of us enjoy the lounges.
You don't travel much do you?
There are more airlines than Spirit, Frontier, or Southwest.
I rather like the Flagship Lounge at DFW, but 150 dollars or 15,000 miles is ridiculous. Who do they think they are, Emirates?
I read the terms of the Flagship First Dining pass and saw this:
"A Flagship® First Dining pass provides access to the holder and their immediate family (spouse, domestic partner and / or children under 18) or up to two guests. Children 2 and older count as a guest."
For 24,000 miles if you are family of 4 or more it could be decent value.