Originally Posted by sawastea

So booked my AAVacations from next Friday to the following Friday from MIA-HKG, via JFK. Total trip cost was a bit over $1K with hotels. Granted the flight is economy, but all marketed as AA which is good for me. In the middle of this flight, booked HKG-MIA RT and was able to use my two SWU for the entire trip ($680). Total trip was slightly over $1,700 but it should give me the 'bonus' AA Vacation miles (20K) as well as 40K BITS miles, at 4.2 cents per mile including hotel embedded. Booked MIA-CGK in September all marketed as AA for an additional 23K BITS with SWU at 3.4 cents per mile. BUT, now the final issue is that I'm $4K short of the EQD for EXP