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Are AA miles worth it?

We estimate that American Airlines miles are worth on average 1.8 cents per mile. This is the highest value of the five major domestic airlines, though a lot of that will depend on how you choose to redeem your miles.



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50,000 American miles are worth about $850. How much are 80,000 American miles worth? 80,000 American miles are worth about $1,360.

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For every dollar you spend with the airline — or one of its partners — you'll get 5 miles. Elite status members earn anywhere from 7 to 11 miles per dollar spent with American, depending on their status tier.

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As an AAdvantage member, you must have some mileage earning or redeeming activity once every 24 months or have an open AAdvantage credit card account to retain your miles. If not, your AAdvantage miles will expire unless you pay a fee to reactivate them.

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A single sign-up bonus, such as the 80,000 miles earned from the AAdvantage Aviator World Elite Business Card, could be redeemed for a one-way flight in business or first class from the continental US to Hawaii.

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You can use miles to buy a seat for an existing flight reservation. To do this, you'll: Find your trip. Select or change seats to load the seat map.

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We sampled flight awards available with U.S. carriers and found that consumers need between about 8,000 and 57,000 miles to get a free one-way coach flight. Free flights in business or first class start at around 25,000 miles and climb to well over 150,000 miles one-way.

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AAdvantage miles can be redeemed for award travel on partner flights, car rentals, hotels and more. Redeeming AAdvantage miles on partner flights gives access to nearly 1,000 destinations worldwide. These redemptions provide excellent value, often better than redeeming on American Airlines flights directly.

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Rent a car, book a hotel or plan a vacation in over 500 destinations. Redeem miles for cars. Redeem miles for hotels. Book a vacation.

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Yes. You can sell your American Airlines miles and points in exchange for instant cash if you find your accumulated miles hard to use. Several online miles brokers buy these miles to help out other clients with flight bookings using your miles – MilesBuyer is one of them.

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Reinstating American Airline Miles This fee is as little as $40 if you're reinstating up to 2,000 miles. However, you might pay as much as $2,000 to reinstate between 250,001 and 500,000 miles. Is it worth it? Yes, if the fee is less than the cash value for the award ticket you have in mind.

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Request an upgrade
  1. Log in to aa.com and make sure you have systemwide upgrades available in your AAdvantage® account.
  2. When booking your flight on aa.com, look for the Systemwide upgrades link to find flights with upgrade seats available.
  3. Call your AAdvantage® status service desk to confirm your upgrade.


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Chip Lupo, Credit Card Writer 70,000 airline miles are worth an average of $882.00, depending on the airline, what exactly you redeem the miles for, and when you choose to redeem. You will generally get the most value for your airline miles when redeeming for airfare.

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