Earning Miles with Car Hires
When you are hiring a car from an AAdvantage programme participant, it is not necessary to purchase an airline ticket in order to earn AAdvantage miles. Your mileage credit should be automatically posted within 30 days of the car hire if your AAdvantage number was provided at the time of booking or pickup. The amount of miles awarded varies from each car hire company. Generally, mileage is awarded per day, or per US dollar spent on qualifying hires. Contact the participating car hire company directly with questions concerning mileage accrual.
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Earning Miles with AAdvantage Dining
You can register up to three credit cards or where applicable, debit cards, with the AAdvantage Dining programme. Then, when you use the card at participating restaurants, you earn ten AAdvantage miles for every US dollar you spend. Mileage credit is limited to once per participating restaurant per calendar month, with a limit of 6,000 miles per visit. View more information about the AAdvantage Dining Programme at AA.com or call AAdvantage Customer Service on 0800 804 840 (German/ English) or 0800 804 841 (French/ English) ( Mon-Fri, from 09:00 - 18:00).
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Thanks, the car renting option and hotel credit also came to my mind; I was unaware that AA has a dining thing in Europe.
If the miles for shopping works despite the name mismatch it is definitely the easiest way to go.
The Rewards Network Dining Program (iDine) is a super easy way to keep an account active, provided there are restaurants in your area that participate. See http://aa.rewardsnetwork.com/index.jsp The miles usually post within a week after dining.
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The Rewards Network Dining Program (iDine) is a super easy way to keep an account active, provided there are restaurants in your area that participate. See http://aa.rewardsnetwork.com/index.jsp The miles usually post within a week after dining.
does that work internationally or on someone elses account?
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Spend them for his favorite nephew?
I am the gatekeeper for a number of relatives FF accounts. I recently went online, and made small donations with miles to make sure they weren't in jeopardy. I did this on CO, but many airlines have the same things.
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does that work internationally or on someone elses account?
Yes, it works on someone else's account. I did that recently to keep a friend's account active, and she lives out of country where there are no participating restaurants.
Just set up the iDine/AAdvantage Dining account for them. For the purposes of getting a dine quickly, just sign up your credit card and do a dine for your uncle. It should show up the following week.
You can donate money to charity and receive miles. Or you can donate miles to a charity - spending miles from the account keeps it active just as well as earning new miles does.
In both cases, I don't think there is a lower limit (money given or miles donated) to qualify.
A friend of mine has quite a few miles and upgrade credits in an account,
I just noticed that the account has not been used at all for 3 years short 6 days. I have been enouraging her to use the miles but she doesnt have a flight plan.
how can i extend the life
can I send miles to a charity or change the UG ctredits to miles(I did this but when tried to do it for a nther friend with expiring miles they said no.
we cannot buy flowers etc as we are in Australia .its a long way to send them.
If she tries to hire a car or stay somehwere it wont reach the account by 21st march. are they quick about taking the miles etc?
