New April Bonus Points when purchasing.

[Alanslegal]

Its possible. Before you buy any points have a play on their booking engine to see if you can find F availability on the way home. The worst part is having points and not able to find the available seats.

 

[kempvet]

Its possible. Before you buy any points have a play on their booking engine to see if you can find F availability on the way home. The worst part is having points and not able to find the available seats.

I find that AA points F seats to Europe are usually reasonably OK to find, but if going to North America, probably need to look many months in advance.

 

[avaction]

Well I bit the bullet and bought the miles. We now have to wait for the booking engines to catch up. We are cruising to Europe from Sth. America in March 2015 and returning mid April 2015, I am hoping to be able to book Etihad 1st class ....... anyone had experience on booking on Etihad using AA miles?

 

[Chesty]

Well I bit the bullet and bought the miles. We now have to wait for the booking engines to catch up. We are cruising to Europe from Sth. America in March 2015 and returning mid April 2015, I am hoping to be able to book Etihad 1st class ....... anyone had experience on booking on Etihad using AA miles?

Don't forget you could also go Qantas which tends to often have good availability and no fuel surcharges. Just avoid BA. But Etihad also seems to have good availability looking months out.

 

[avaction]

Don't forget you could also go Qantas which tends to often have good availability and no fuel surcharges. Just avoid BA. But Etihad also seems to have good availability looking months out.

NO FUEL SURCHARGES ON Qantas? That sounds good.

 

[ncairns]

If you're needing an additional topup of AA points because you've reached your 80k annual limit, don't forget SPG are currently offering up to 25% off Starpoints.

You can then transfer the Starpoints to AA at a conversion rate of 1:1. Also, if you transfer 20,000 Starpoints in one transaction, you will get a 5,000 point bonus.

So
20,000 Starpoints = 20,000 AA miles + 5,000 bonus miles = 25,000 AA miles = USD525.00 (includes 25% off)
which is US 2.1 cent/mile....about the same rate as the April bonus directly from AA.

 

[Paddy55]

Don't forget you could also go Qantas which tends to often have good availability and no fuel surcharges.

:shock::evil: Don't really know where to begin. I'm not especially happy with QF availability on long haul, and it seems to me that the only reason F & J goes so quickly is the fuel fines are so big they aren't far off Y fares when I've looked, making Y awards comparatively poor value!

 

[avaction]

:shock::evil: Don't really know where to begin. I'm not especially happy with QF availability on long haul, and it seems to me that the only reason F & J goes so quickly is the fuel fines are so big they aren't far off Y fares when I've looked, making Y awards comparatively poor value!

Looking at March 2015 the "surcharges" on flight from Manchester to Sydney (BA1399 + QF2) are AU$520 pp + 80,000 miles (bought for $2,000) which equals under $2,600 for a one way first class ticket, not a bad saving ?? Now all I have to do is wait for April to open up and book the tickets.

I think the best way would be through the American Airways reservation service as I want to make sure I get two tickets and my wife and I have separate accounts each with 100,000 miles in them ........ thoughts?????

 

[Chesty]

Looking at March 2015 the "surcharges" on flight from Manchester to Sydney (BA1399 + QF2) are AU$520 pp + 80,000 miles (bought for $2,000) which equals under $2,600 for a one way first class ticket, not a bad saving ?? Now all I have to do is wait for April to open up and book the tickets.

I think the best way would be through the American Airways reservation service as I want to make sure I get two tickets and my wife and I have separate accounts each with 100,000 miles in them ........ thoughts?????

Firstly, you are paying hefty fuel surcharges because of the BA flight from Manchester to London.

I have booked two flights before from mine and my wife's account online, no problem. As soon as I saw there were two seats for the flights I wanted (SYD-DXB in F) I simply put a hold on both seats through both accounts and just went ahead and booked them. You can hold an award for 5 days.

 

[avaction]

Firstly, you are paying hefty fuel surcharges because of the BA flight from Manchester to London.

I have booked two flights before from mine and my wife's account online, no problem. As soon as I saw there were two seats for the flights I wanted (SYD-DXB in F) I simply put a hold on both seats through both accounts and just went ahead and booked them. You can hold an award for 5 days.

Thanks, I'll see what the flights out of Heathrow are without the BA leg cost in "surcharges".

 

[avaction]

Firstly, you are paying hefty fuel surcharges because of the BA flight from Manchester to London.

I have booked two flights before from mine and my wife's account online, no problem. As soon as I saw there were two seats for the flights I wanted (SYD-DXB in F) I simply put a hold on both seats through both accounts and just went ahead and booked them. You can hold an award for 5 days.

I believe it is the Air Passenger Duty which is the real pain, it is applicable to all passengers departing any UK airport and for us it looks like GBP194 per person (AU$350) so it is not actually BA's fault. hmrc.gov.uk/public-notices/550-duty-rates.pdf

 

[Alanslegal]

Sadly I didn't pull the trigger with this promotion no matter how tempting it was

 

[zainman]

Seems to be a new bonus on for buying miles, anyone work out if this one is better than the April bonus?

 

[JessicaTam]

Seems to be a new bonus on for buying miles, anyone work out if this one is better than the April bonus?

This offer is not quite as good.

"Up to 30%"



With the details here: AAdvantage

 

[DC3]

I ended up taking the 40% bonus on 65,00miles (i.e., 26,000 bonus = 91,000miles) on the previous offer that closed last month. It all posted within 24 hours.

 

[burmans]

This offer is not quite as good.

"Up to 30%"

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With the details here: AAdvantage

I'm clearly missing the point here, why with USDM also offering 100% bonus points would you prefer buying AA.

The only pro I can see is one-way tickets and ability to book online, US offers a cheaper buy point, cheaper redemptions in general, greater opportunity to buy points and they will convert to AA at 1:1 at some stage.

 

[avaction]

I see that US Airways now has a 100% bonus on 30,000 to 50,000 miles bought till May 25th see pointhacks.com.au for full details, as US Airways are now a OneWorld partner they can be used across a lot of Qantas routes. Although only return trips are allowed I believe.

 

[DC3]

I'm clearly missing the point here, why with USDM also offering 100% bonus points would you prefer buying AA.

The only pro I can see is one-way tickets and ability to book online, US offers a cheaper buy point, cheaper redemptions in general, greater opportunity to buy points and they will convert to AA at 1:1 at some stage.

If US Airways doesn't allow one way award redemption, that would be a big negative for me. I (almost) never back-track in the USA.

Conversion at 1:1. That's good news. I hadn't seen that confirmed before, only some speculation.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

AA also offers EY awards. US does not

 

[burmans]

If US Airways doesn't allow one way award redemption, that would be a big negative for me. I (almost) never back-track in the USA.

Conversion at 1:1. That's good news. I hadn't seen that confirmed before, only some speculation.

Someone (maybe dc?) posted the link confirming this previously but havent any idea where, am hopeful they will be able to repost.

Agree, if oneways are material to you then AA it is.