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Airlines are now in a race for the best points program. With Delta Airlines very quickly improving the value of their SkyMiles, American has now introduced their Web Specials!
American Airlines Web Specials
American Airlines rewards program has needed some improvements, and now they are making them. Some airports that are included in these sales include Austin, Los Angeles, DFW, Boston, Orlando, Las Vegas, AND HAWAII!
Some of these flights start as low as 5,000 miles. For those looking to stretch your AAdvantage miles, this is a great way to do it. For example, here is an example from LAX to LAS.
However, it is a bit of a fine line that airlines are playing right now. If airfare continued to fall in price, the effort of earning miles could potentially be deemed “a waste of time”. I wouldn’t argue that personally, but I could see how that could be an argument.
American Advantage miles are worth roughly 1.4 cents per point, and specials like this could actually allow you to get less value. There may be times where paying cash maybe suit the points and miles aficionado better off.
I have about 40,000 miles AAdvantage miles left after I booked my wife and I Business/First Class from San Jose, Costa Rica to Philadelphia to Salt Lake City. Looks like I need to save these for some of these web specials!
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A race for the best points program? How’ that award chart saver availability doing to, say, Europe in business?
How about some special fares out of Charlotte one of your biggest hubs instead of $169 fares to East Jesus Wisconsin from Washbasin Missouri ? ?????
If you are going to say there is a sale on this, why not give the web address where we can find it? Delta has theirs listed on the front page. I have spent 20 minutes on the AA site and can’t find anything of which you speak.
James – I don’t think that AA actually has a page listing which routes have these and not – it’s more just a matter of finding them when you’re searching. I agree – it makes it a bit hard to find