AA Share miles back

[Doggy]

Just got this in the inbox about 30 mins ago:

Start sharing miles with our best offer yet. Now through September 30, 2015, earn up to 5,000 American Airlines AAdvantage[SUP]®[/SUP] bonus miles and a 30% discount when you share miles with a friend or loved one. And as always, use your eligible AAdvantage credit card and earn additional AAdvantage miles per $1 spent buying, gifting or sharing AAdvantage miles.

Share	Bonus Miles	Discount
6,000 – 25,000​	1,000​	20%​
26,000 – 50,000​	5,000​	30% ​

Basically, what this means is your best value means buying 5k miles for USD227+.

Unless I'm mistaken, this is horrific value at almost $50 for k, it's cheaper to buy without any bonuses at all. I do find it interesting that Share miles is back. I believe this is the first time since the merger, right?

 

[netgrom]

Agree, got excited and did the math but effectively 4.55c a point, I don't get it?? Unless someone really needs to get points out of account this is useless, maybe they are testing the system for something good, we can leave in hope.

 

[netgrom]

Scrap that +$20 processing fee so 4.95 cpm

 

[The Flying Brick]

Pre-merger USDM used to offer 100% bonus miles occasionally for sharing miles, probably the cheapest way to accumulate lots of points.
Since the merger however, AA share mile promotions have been particularly stingy and this one is no better.

 

[Doggy]

Agree, got excited and did the math but effectively 4.55c a point, I don't get it?? Unless someone really needs to get points out of account this is useless, maybe they are testing the system for something good, we can leave in hope.

100% agreed. It's a really strange offer. It would be a super rare case where someone would choose to take it up.

 

[burmans]

Pre-merger USDM used to offer 100% bonus miles occasionally for sharing miles, probably the cheapest way to accumulate lots of points.
Since the merger however, AA share mile promotions have been particularly stingy and this one is no better.

30% discount is the same as a 43% bonus, so yes nothing like the USDM 100% bonuses. The Lifemiles promo is much more attractive IMO (and I'm still saying no to that).

 

[Doggy]

30% discount is the same as a 43% bonus, so yes nothing like the USDM 100% bonuses. The Lifemiles promo is much more attractive IMO (and I'm still saying no to that).

The LM promo seems attractive but the value of their miles is well below AA.

 

[burmans]

The LM promo seems attractive but the value of their miles is well below AA.

Depends on your route really. Lets take North Asia, 40K on LM one way for J, 45K on AA. Yes I accept that AA miles are a great currency and generally better (I do have 1.2M of them myself) but worth 4.5+c per point vs the 1.4c you can get LM for, no way!

The areas where AA is better they are 30-40% better, not 3 times as good.

 

[Doggy]

Depends on your route really. Lets take North Asia, 40K on LM one way for J, 45K on AA. Yes I accept that AA miles are a great currency and generally better (I do have 1.2M of them myself) but worth 4.5+c per point vs the 1.4c you can get LM for, no way!

The areas where AA is better they are 30-40% better, not 3 times as good.

Agreed. Just making it clear that they aren't 1:1. Aus to EU and NA, there is a very big gap b/w LM and AA.

 

[Infreq]

Doggy and netgrom, I surely didn't read this the same as you did. The drop down shows if you go for the maximum 50,000 miles + 5,000 bonus you're getting 55,000 miles for $437.50. That looks like $.008/pt to me. Am I missing something on the Share/Purchase?

https://buymiles.aa.com/en/share?c=USC_AboutAAdv_EN,US_TRANSFER

 

[burmans]

Yes, you are missing something, when you are sharing you are sharing points you already own. So that $400 plus dollars (less 30%) is only buying you 5k more points.

 

[Infreq]

Ahh Big difference