Buy Miles; One third bonus

[grussellt]

I thought I had missed the October special offer but when I logged on today I noticed the new offer is Buy 6000 miles/Get 2000 bonus miles. I only needed a few so it's a great deal. Now I can have a return flight to Lord Howe for 20000 miles at about half the price of paying QF $1000. (Of course I could use 16,000 QF points and get slugged $176!)

I have just returned from Europe and the outward leg was an AA award (using purchased miles) on JAL/BA from Sydney to Paris. The combination was perfect and I didn't even mind paying the fuel surcharge/seat booking fee to BA. What a bargain but next I'll try and book a little earlier and maybe try CX.

 

[JohnK]

This is almost getting impossible to track.

No email? And I am guessing they gave not increased the 40,000 limit either.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

This is almost getting impossible to track.

No email? And I am guessing they gave not increased the 40,000 limit either.

there was an email today, it might arrive in your box shortly

 

[Mwenenzi]

AA email to me arrived 10:07 today

Don't have enough miles? Now, you can buy the miles you need for your next award ticket. Earn 2,000 AAdvantage bonus miles for every 6,000 miles purchased in a single transaction, up to 12,000 bonus miles. But you'll need to act fast — like the holidays, this offer will be gone before you know it.
Offer ends November 15, 2012.

 

[Baysider]

AA email to me arrived 10:07 today

Yep, mine came at 09:38

 

[Kangol]

I have just returned from Europe and the outward leg was an AA award (using purchased miles) on JAL/BA from Sydney to Paris. The combination was perfect and I didn't even mind paying the fuel surcharge/seat booking fee to BA. What a bargain but next I'll try and book a little earlier and maybe try CX.

How much were the taxes/surcharges if you don't mind me asking? Where was your stopover?

Looking at the chart you can get Aus-Europe in J for 60k / F 80k (weird because to North America is 62.5k J / 72.5k F) - is there a choice of East-West or West-East to Europe?

http://www.aa.com/i18n/disclaimers/aadvantageAllPartnerChart.jsp#1

If you could do say SYD-LAX-LHR in F it would be 80k but for SYD-LAX it would be 72.5k..

 

[JohnK]

there was an email today, it might arrive in your box shortly

Still no email but can see the promotion online.

 

[futaris]

How much were the taxes/surcharges if you don't mind me asking? Where was your stopover?

Looking at the chart you can get Aus-Europe in J for 60k / F 80k (weird because to North America is 62.5k J / 72.5k F) - is there a choice of East-West or West-East to Europe?

http://www.aa.com/i18n/disclaimers/aadvantageAllPartnerChart.jsp#1

If you could do say SYD-LAX-LHR in F it would be 80k but for SYD-LAX it would be 72.5k..

No. Against the rules.

See Award Rules (AA) - FlyerGuide Wiki

Or http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-aadvantage/440733-aa-partner-airline-award-info-rules-not-oneworld-explorer-awards.html

 

[MEL_Traveller]

towards the end of 2010 (not sure if it was also offered in 2011) they had a promo where they offered 30% bonus miles AND temporarily increased the number of miles you could buy in a calendar year to 60000 (excluding bonuses). I'd be keeping an eye out for that again. I think it was in December 2010.

 

[grussellt]

How much were the taxes/surcharges if you don't mind me asking? Where was your stopover?

Looking at the chart you can get Aus-Europe in J for 60k / F 80k (weird because to North America is 62.5k J / 72.5k F) - is there a choice of East-West or West-East to Europe?

http://www.aa.com/i18n/disclaimers/aadvantageAllPartnerChart.jsp#1

If you could do say SYD-LAX-LHR in F it would be 80k but for SYD-LAX it would be 72.5k..

Our stopover was NRT and it proved a wise choice - a daytime flight to NRT, arriving late afternoon and then BA6 to LHR leaving at 11.00am and a short hop to Paris for a late evening arrival. It was the first time I have arrived in Europe without jet-lag. The charges were $US447.70 (BA/JL - mostly BA) +$US25 AA and $A95.60/$A31.90 to BA for seat booking fees. These were the charges in October 2011 so they may have changed.
I'm afraid Australia(South Pacific)-Europe is only via Asia but that includes SIN,HKG,BKK,NRT,KIX and presumably soon KUL and DXB.

 

[Kangol]

No. Against the rules.

See Award Rules (AA) - FlyerGuide Wiki

Or http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-aadvantage/440733-aa-partner-airline-award-info-rules-not-oneworld-explorer-awards.html

Thanks, was worth a try, interesting how they work out their pricing though!

Our stopover was NRT and it proved a wise choice - a daytime flight to NRT, arriving late afternoon and then BA6 to LHR leaving at 11.00am and a short hop to Paris for a late evening arrival. It was the first time I have arrived in Europe without jet-lag. The charges were $US447.70 (BA/JL - mostly BA) +$US25 AA and $A95.60/$A31.90 to BA for seat booking fees. These were the charges in October 2011 so they may have changed.
I'm afraid Australia(South Pacific)-Europe is only via Asia but that includes SIN,HKG,BKK,NRT,KIX and presumably soon KUL and DXB.

Thanks - great value compared to QFF!!


Just to be sure - is this promotion only when you are buying miles for yourself? (ie using "buyAAmiles") and if you are buying for someone else as a gift (ie "giftAAmiles") then it doesn't attract the bonus?
Just opened the gift link and it doesn't include anything about a bonus whereas the buy link does.
If it is the case, seems like they closed a loophole where you could in theory get several friends and family members to buy them for you thereby attracting multiple bonuses...

 

[grussellt]

Thanks, was worth a try, interesting how they work out their pricing though!



Thanks - great value compared to QFF!!


Just to be sure - is this promotion only when you are buying miles for yourself? (ie using "buyAAmiles") and if you are buying for someone else as a gift (ie "giftAAmiles") then it doesn't attract the bonus?
Just opened the gift link and it doesn't include anything about a bonus whereas the buy link does.
If it is the case, seems like they closed a loophole where you could in theory get several friends and family members to buy them for you thereby attracting multiple bonuses...

Other people can buy miles for you and receive the bonus. However you must have them "share miles" with you (i.e. transfer them to you) for a maximum of 100,000 miles per year. There is an additional charge for the sharing. However if you only need a small number it is certaibly worth assembling the miles required for a J-fliigt to Europe.