[Any] Easy way to get 30,000 Aadvantage Miles

[wandersen]

Hi all,

I'm doing an around the world in F next year (woohoo !) for my honeymoon. This was all booked on points, bar one domestic segment in the US - from JFK to LAS. We've booked this is economy and I undertstand that you need 15,000 points each to upgrade to F. I'm actually not an Aadvantage member at all but can easily join if I can work out a way to easily get 30,000 points for this purpose in Aus.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

 

[serfty]

You need an AAdvantage account.

Easiest way?

Buy them from AA! USD917 (https://www.aa.com/AAdvantage/aadvantageHomeAccess.do?anchorEvent=false&from=Nav) (Limited to 40,000 per member per year)

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Another way?

There's a 20% discount on purchasing Starwood Points until the end of this year.

At the moment, you can buy them at USD140 per 5000. Get 25,000 and transfer to AA and get a 5000 bonus making it 30,000.

Since there is a limit of 20,000 per member per you'd need to jojinthe two of you up to, buy 15,000 and 10,000 for each account. You then transfer your fiance's points to your account (make sure you join at the same address) for free. This gives you that 25,000 which will convert to AA for the 30,000 you require. Total cost USD700.

FWIW, there's a 5K bonus for every 20K transferred; you could both purchase 20K, transfer one lot to the other and onfored to AAdvantage getting 50K for USD1120.
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[casanovawa]

Hmmm, I thought by the thread title you were going to tell us an easy way to get 30,000 AA miles...

NB Glad to see [Any] has been added to the title, just an example of where punctuaton [ie ???] can be our friend...

 

[wandersen]

$900 is a bit expensive I think ... I could get 120,000 QF points easily for that by referring my Fiance to Amex Platinum and then just book 2xF awards on AA.... is there no credit card deals in Aus ?

 

[casanovawa]

Credit card deals in Australia getting AA mile sign on bonuses??? No i don't think so...

 

[serfty]

Note that 15,000 AAdvantage miles is good for up to three segment of the same booking in the one "direction". For example I have upgraded BOS-MIA-DFW-SEA with this.

USD700 (or 350 PP) is not too bad when you consider that.

Since you mention Amex - 75,800 MR can be converted to 25,014 SPG which can be converted to 30,014 AAdvantage miles.

 

[Deewhy]

$900 is a bit expensive I think ... I could get 120,000 QF points easily for that by referring my Fiance to Amex Platinum and then just book 2xF awards on AA.... is there no credit card deals in Aus ?

Hmm, if that is easy, isn't it an option then? How do iyou get 120k via amex plat? Is that based on a current offer?Cerainly interested in that .I think what serfty offered as an easy option via MR and SPG was pretty good too. Cerainly helped with my understanding of what is easy.Maybe you were after the cheapest option, rather than the easiest? From Aus it doesn't look like it can come any cheaper based on advice from our oracle experts!

 

[wandersen]

Amex has a current "referral bonus" promotion where the referrer gets a bonus of half the points that the new cardholder gets. The current bonus point offer on Amex Platinum is 80,000 points. So, the bonus is 40,000 points for a total of 120,000 points.

And of course thanks for the advice. I was hoping for a simple credit card deal .... I know e.g. that AA has credit cards in a number of European countries.