There is a skill to redeeming frequent flyer miles. Not every seat on every flight is available for payment with frequent flyer miles, but rather a varying percentage of seats are made available. You will be competing for fewer available seats, so the top 10 list for how to redeem your miles is even more important.
Some of the redemption options that American Airlines offers are quite different from other frequent flyer plans such as teaming up with programs that allow you to use miles towards savings for college.
American Airlines' Top 10 ways to use the miles you've earned
- 1. Vacation Planning - members can use as few as 500 miles towards paying for vacations planned with AAVacations.com, including hotel, car rentals and local activities.
- 2. Off-peak travel awards - you can use less miles if you are willing to travel at less popular times which vary by destination.
- 3. Short-Hop awards - these are not always available and pop up more as a promotion which allow members to claim awards on trips of 750 miles or less at reduced mileage levels.
- 4. Gift of Travel - you can use your miles to give travel opportunities to family members, friends or even donate miles to various charities.
- 5. Admirals Clubs - use you miles to use the lounge. AAdvantage miles can be redeemed for annual Admirals Club memberships and really relax before your flights.
- 6. Hotels - starting at 500 AAdvantage miles, members can book vacation packages which include hotel stays, airport transfers and other features through AmericanAirlines Vacations.
- 7. Magazines - you can redeem miles for some of your favorite magazines. Subscriptions start at 400 miles and can be setup online through Magazines for Miles.
- 8. College Savings - American Airlines has teamed up with Upromise, to save for college. AAdvantage members can now redeem frequent flyer miles for college savings and deposit them into their Upromise account.
- 9. Shopping - Points.com allows AAdvantage members to exchange miles for shopping gift certificates at lots of well known retailers and restaurants.
- 10. Donate - you can donate your miles to various charities such as the Make-a-Wish Foundation. When you make a donation to one of American’s partner organizations, you will earn extra AAdvantage miles.
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