Get 30% off American Airlines miles – and an extra 10% off until tomorrow

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• James67 says:

  5 Feb5 February 06:19

  Got caught out by this again. Did MR to SPG to AA transfer. With hindsight I might have bought the miles and sat on MR for avios bonus. There is also a 40% bonus on buying Alaska miles at the moment. Anybody looking at a CX premium seat might want to do the maths to check if it’s worthwhile

  • thomas says:

    5 Feb5 February 16:09

    Am I missing something here ? or not seeing the obvious ?
    40,000 MR points would only equal 20,000 SPG points, and 25,000 if then transferred onwards to AA.
    A loss of 15,000 ….

    • James67 says:

      5 Feb5 February 17:08

      Yes, but I needed the AA miles and my only other option was to but them. Assumming at best 50% trasfer bonus to avios that would have given me 60k, not even enough for a comple multi-sector one way Asia/Europe C class redemption if BA was not available. Using avios eould also incur hight fees for most partner airlines. Thus, I took the 25k AA miles via spg to top up 30k i already have. That gives me 55k and I can get that complex multisector ticket just before Xmas for 52.5k miles plus about £100 cash. No BA flights werd available CW for whole of December. I want a J seat on MH a380 when I can get it. It’ all abouf the right redemption at right time. Obviously though I might have pregerred to buy 20k + 5k bonus had I known anf kept my MR points.

• Ed E says:

  5 Feb5 February 06:35

  Morning Raffles, I think you are missing the word “buy” when you are talking about the 5am thing. Ed

  • Rob says:

    5 Feb5 February 09:57

    Fixed!

• Adam W says:

  5 Feb5 February 07:39

  The most ‘efficient’ amount to buy is 60000 + extra 18000 free. It works out to be 1.84c per mile vs the ‘1.86c’ that you quote (which should actually read 1.87c).

  • Rob says:

    5 Feb5 February 09:55

    True, I forgot about the fixed $25 fee amortising!

    • Adam W says:

      5 Feb5 February 14:21

      $35 fee

• dannyrado says:

  5 Feb5 February 07:49

  I bought some yesterday. Are the bonus miles supposed to post immediately? Because they haven’t! I just have the base 40k!

  • James67 says:

    5 Feb5 February 08:17

    I have not read the t&c this time. In the past they have posted together but last couple of times bonus miles have posted later which is obviously a nuisance. Unless planning to make a reservation soon I would be cautious about buying. Given the merger, it is possible a new award chart could surface any day but hopefully they will provide notice

• Pat Butcher says:

  5 Feb5 February 08:47

  Think people are still waiting for the bonus 20% “present” from the sale that ended in December.

  • James67 says:

    5 Feb5 February 09:05

    Wasn’t that supposed to post by 26th January? I didn’t go for that either because I wanted to see if the 7th January merger announcment included a new award chart but in the end it didn’t.

• Roger says:

  5 Feb5 February 09:57

  It may be browser dependent (I’m outside the UK at the moment) but points.com wanted an additional 7.5% federal tax, even with a UK delivery/payment address, thus eating up much of the bonus. I declined

  • Rob says:

    5 Feb5 February 10:01

    Must be down to your IP address, I have done various miles purchases in the past via them and the tax was never added.

  • Lady London says:

    5 Feb5 February 20:46

    apparently a VPN can avoid these sorts of problems. I keep reminding myself to sort out a couple in US and UK. also good for tv watching and downloading reliably if there is any question about rights in the area you may be traveling in, apparently.

• Roger says:

  5 Feb5 February 09:59

  Make that browser! (cursed predictive text …)

• Dean says:

  5 Feb5 February 10:41

  Do you know of a similar thing with United? I want to travel in Central America and seems that only Avianca and Copa Air/ United Airlines fly the route I’m after. What would be the best way to transfer miles into Avianca Lifemiles or Copa Air/ United Airlines? It seems that SPG to United is coming at a poor rate of exchange. Is there any other path that you know of? Many thanks.

  • Rob says:

    5 Feb5 February 11:29

    Avianca sell miles incredibly cheaply during their (pretty regular) bonus promotions. The best thing to do is register for Lifemiles NOW (because these promotions are only available to members who had already joined before it launched) and wait for their next deal to come along.

    • Dean says:

      5 Feb5 February 11:35

      Thanks Raffles! I’m registered already. Hope something comes along in time.

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