<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by lrickets:
I went and look up on AA regarding redeeming the miles. You can buy gift certificates and use your AA miles to pay for it. AA will let you have $25 for every 3125 AA miles toward your vacation. That's less than .008 cent per mile. What gives? Is there anyway we can convert AA miles back to hotel points, etc.?</font>
your math is off by a factor of 100. .008 dollars is .8 cents.
the cash value of a mile is about 1 cent.
the ticket redemption value varies between 2-12 cents.