Is it worth paying to reactivate AA miles?

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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It's rarely worth it to buy frequent flyer miles — especially without a bonus or discount. Airline and hotel programs generally price points and miles at such a high rate that it's hard to get more value than what you paid for them. Let's take Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles as an example.

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Reactivated miles are credited to your account as a mileage bonus and don't count toward AAdvantage? status qualification or Million Miler? status. Reactivated miles will not expire as long as your account has mileage earning or redeeming activity once every 24 months.

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*Please allow up to 72 hours to process your reinstatement. Your AAdvantage® account balance will be updated as soon as the reinstatement is processed.

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0-4,000 miles: No discount (3.76? each) 5,000-54,000 miles: 20% discount (3? each) 55,000-149,000 miles: 25% discount (2.82? each) 150,000 miles: 35% discount (2.45? each)

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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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Qualification and membership year period The status qualification year starts on March 1 and runs through the last day of February. For example, in 2024, your counter will restart on March 1, 2024, and run through February 28, 2025.

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Even though selling American Airlines miles seems to be frowned upon, there is no law prohibiting the sale of miles.

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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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The standard mileage rate for transportation or travel expenses is 65.5 cents per mile for all miles of business use (business standard mileage rate). See section 4 of Page 3 - 3 - Rev. Proc. 2019-46. However, § 11045 of Public Law 115-97, 131.

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The 2023 IRS mileage rates are: 65.5 cents per mile for business purposes. 22 cents per mile for medical and moving purposes. 14 cents per mile for charitable purposes.

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