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Can I use my American Airlines miles for someone else?

AAdvantage® members may use miles to reserve seats for themselves and for other travelers. You can use miles to buy a seat for an existing flight reservation.



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Yes, you can transfer AAdvantage miles from one account to another, but it comes with a cost. It costs $15 per 1,000 miles to transfer AAdvantage miles to another account.

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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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Yes, American Airlines AAdvantage? miles expire if you have no earning or redemption activity on your account in a 24-month period. Per the AAdvantage? FAQs page: ?Just earn or redeem miles on American or with an AAdvantage? partner at least once every 24 months.

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The good news is that this is certainly possible — you can transfer American Airlines miles from your account to your wife's. Simply head to AA's transfer page, select the number of miles you'd like to transfer and pay the fee.

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Can I combine my Accounts with anyone else? You may transfer Miles and even merge your profile with another Collector Account in order to pool your collecting efforts and the Miles existing currently in your AIR MILES Cash and Dream Accounts.

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It's simple to keep your miles from expiring. Each time you have qualifying activity in your account, you defer the expiration of all of your miles for 36 months. Qualifying activity is defined as earning mileage credit from any AAdvantage participant or redeeming miles for any AAdvantage award.

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Can you transfer American Airlines miles to a family member? . The minimum transfer amount is 1,000 miles, and it will cost $15 to do the transfer. The maximum number of miles that can be transferred each year is 200,000.

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If you cancel your trip on aa.com, your miles will be reinstated and your refund will be requested automatically in most cases.

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Fees range in price depending on the company you are working with, but they can really add up. Essentially you would be paying a small fee per mile transferred with the average fee being around 15 cents per mile.

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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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Redeem miles Use AAdvantage® miles to book award travel on British Airways, including itineraries with oneworld® and partner airlines.

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Frequent flyer miles earned from the following major domestic airlines do not expire: Delta Air Lines SkyMiles, JetBlue TrueBlue, Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards, United Airlines MileagePlus. Other airlines, including American and Alaska, have varying mileage expiration policies and ways to keep your miles active.

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You cannot convert American miles to cash. However, you can redeem your miles for Admirals Club memberships, rental cars and hotel stays, vacation packages, luxury experiences, and donations to partner charities.

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