Any no cost/very low cost way of keeping AA points?

[Foreigner]

Helpful tips above.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I am a member and used to get points credited to VA when I could be bothered. I just tried to join erewards with a different email address so that I could 'choose' AA, but it says that it is by invitation only. So, that may be a dead end too now.

were your rewards locked to VA? I have no idea how I became a member... but I have a choice of awards, including AA, SPG, Accor, David Jones, and some other company I've never heard of! (but I get $70 off if i shop on line...)

 

[get me outta here]

I logged in and it looks like I am locked to VA, but I have emailed erewards to ask them.

were your rewards locked to VA? I have no idea how I became a member... but I have a choice of awards, including AA, SPG, Accor, David Jones, and some other company I've never heard of! (but I get $70 off if i shop on line...)

 

[get me outta here]

Yes thanks, I did not see anything abouve there that applied to me unfortunately, except buying some, which is my fall back.

Helpful tips above.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

e-Rewards works for me. It normally takes a few days for them to land in your account.

+1 for erewards, can be a hassle but better than playing $100

woo-hoo!! It works! Thanks for the advice, saved me $100 having to buy some more miles (pesky processing fee!!), or losing miles through a donation.

Total process took just a couple of days (despite the message it could take several weeks for the transfer). Miles extended by 18 months.

 

[get me outta here]

What was the process you used to sign up? When I looked up erewards, it just said by invitation. I am on the VA list, and converted 250 VA points whilst I was about it. But, how to get onto AA - I have not discovered the route yet.

woo-hoo!! It works! Thanks for the advice, saved me $100 having to buy some more miles (pesky processing fee!!), or losing miles through a donation.

Total process took just a couple of days (despite the message it could take several weeks for the transfer). Miles extended by 18 months.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

What was the process you used to sign up? When I looked up erewards, it just said by invitation. I am on the VA list, and converted 250 VA points whilst I was about it. But, how to get onto AA - I have not discovered the route yet.

to be honest, I don't know where the invitation came from. it could have been from anywhere... Accor hotels, an airline, tripadvisor. however... it's a generic one... under the 'rewards' section it lets me choose whatever I want from half a dozen programs (AA, Accor, David Jones and even iTunes!)

actually...given David Jones is a redemption offer it must have come from some Australian company... but I have no idea where. I think I signed up before e-rewards started linking directly to specific airlines.

 

[legroom]

Some gave a not so rosy opinion of e-rewards here in terms of time required.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Some gave a not so rosy opinion of e-rewards here in terms of time required.

to be honest - I have no idea whether I'm being correctly credited for any surveys. They say they will take weeks to credit... and I can't be bothered tracking each one I do. I don't think I'd ever be dedicated to write to them!

However - just answering the interesting ones the balance seems to keep growing. So I'm happy (and eventually paid off today!)

 

[k_sheep]

I just combined my USDM and AA accounts (forgot to do it before the merger) - that reset the expiry date for my miles nicely

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I just combined my USDM and AA accounts (forgot to do it before the merger) - that reset the expiry date for my miles nicely

that's good! It didn't for me, or for my friends

 

[k_sheep]

That's a pity! Surely it counts as account activity? Unless there's no miles in one account I guess.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

That's a pity! Surely it counts as account activity? Unless there's no miles in one account I guess.

All of us had miles in both accounts. My friends (a family... two parents and child) had points in all of their accounts. For all of us the expiry date stayed the same (for AA), and in fact for one of the other accounts the expiry date actually came forward by a couple of months to then end of June this year (should have been september). Don't know what happened with that one.

thankfully e-rewards worked for me!

 

[Croupier]

Stayed in a hotel in the last 3 years?
if yes then a simple 2 minute hotel review will net you 70 AA miles and post in less than a week
https://secure.holidaycheck.com/wcf/hotelreview/

 

[Mattg]

Stayed in a hotel in the last 3 years?
if yes then a simple 2 minute hotel review will net you 70 AA miles and post in less than a week
https://secure.holidaycheck.com/wcf/hotelreview/

Thanks for pointing this out! I might just leave a few reviews myself.

I see they allow up to 10 reviews a month. If, theoretically I left 10 reviews each month, that's 8,400 AAdvantage miles per year...

 

[Croupier]

Thanks for pointing this out! I might just leave a few reviews myself.

I see they allow up to 10 reviews a month. If, theoretically I left 10 reviews each month, that's 8,400 AAdvantage miles per year...

yeah it's a good little points earner, just make sure you keep you booking confirmation emails as they will randomly contact you to verify that you actually stayed at the hotel

 

[k_sheep]

All of us had miles in both accounts. My friends (a family... two parents and child) had points in all of their accounts. For all of us the expiry date stayed the same (for AA), and in fact for one of the other accounts the expiry date actually came forward by a couple of months to then end of June this year (should have been september). Don't know what happened with that one.

thankfully e-rewards worked for me!

I have to apologise - apparently I transferred some SPG points at a similar time, which is probably what ticked it over, not the program combine.

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

Stayed in a hotel in the last 3 years?
if yes then a simple 2 minute hotel review will net you 70 AA miles and post in less than a week
https://secure.holidaycheck.com/wcf/hotelreview/

Just what I needed to reset my expiry on a couple of accounts

Will do the odd review to keep the expiry well in advance

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Just what I needed to reset my expiry on a couple of accounts

Will do the odd review to keep the expiry well in advance

I got some offer from Tripadvisor to earn 'points'... except the 'points' only lead to a new badge. Nothing more.

Think I might as well start doing reviews for these guys instead!

 

[burmans]

yeah it's a good little points earner, just make sure you keep you booking confirmation emails as they will randomly contact you to verify that you actually stayed at the hotel

I think particularly on your first review they may do this.