Originally Posted by Doghound

Well, it might be good to know how far away she is. If she's within 160k miles, then you can get her there in the next 6-8 weeks by having her buy 60k miles (+20k bonus miles with the offer going on right now), and then you gifting her 60k miles (+20k bonus).

Just a thought.

Originally Posted by STLFrank

Are you sure that's true. AA.COM says: Using the buyAAmiles and giftAAmiles programs, you may receive a combined maximum of 40,000 AAdvantage miles per calendar year.

(with the 40K raised to 60K in decemeber).

So I'm not sure you can buy more than 60K miles into an account and gift miles into that account too. At least in the same calendar year.