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AA bonus miles for crossing the Atlantic
The bonus is back! If you have a trip already planned, but not booked, it may be a good time to check out prices on flights marketed by AA and flown by AA, BA, FinnAir, or Iberia. The maximum you can earn is 40k for 2 roundtrips in First class, and if you just fly once in economy, well, you’ll get a nice little 2500 mile bump. The promotion requires registration and is only valid on flights booked on January 19th and flown by March 31st. Yep…if you booked a flight yesterday – you don’t get the miles. Shortsided, in my mind, for AA to marginalize loyalists who will fly during this period, but booked prior to the announcment – who knows maybe they’ll change this with enough pushback. Either way…you can earn AA bonus miles for crossing the Atlantic.
Go here to register
Travel between January 19th and March 31st, 2017.
- You must register with promotion code NAS17
- Flight must be a qualifying fare
- If you bought a ticket before January 19th…you’re out of luck
- Fly by March 31st
Lay out of terms and conditions
My Take…
I’m going to write more about this, but in the past couple years I’ve been excited about these promotions and have taken advantage of them. However, Alaska is offering INSANE partner earn rates. One of the those partners is BA. So I’m going to run the numbers for a later post, but I don’t think this is really that attractive if you travel is on BA. Unless, of course, you’re going for status, and don’t care about AS miles, but from a pure earning perspective – at first glance, this promotion falls flat compared to Alaska’s.
I read about this on View From The Wing
The Chase Sapphire Preferred is a great starter card that earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based.
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
80k offer in branch currently – I think this should be online soon
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
Super solid welcome offer.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex℠and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash , Ink Business Unlimited you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
- 3x on dining
- including eligible delivery services for takeout
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards – Chase Travel Portal
- $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred® continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel Portal and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including primary rental car insurance, purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 13 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in the Chase Travel center for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Primary rental car coverage is my favorite
There is currently an 80k offer after $4k spend in 3 months available in branch, and up to 90k after $6k spend in 6 months. I suspect some version of this will be online soon if you don’t want the hassle of going into a branch.
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 60k is a very, very good offer. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back. .
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
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