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Old Aug 25, 2023 | 7:39 am
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Athena53
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Originally Posted by fotographer
in all my years with AA.. I have never been even tempted to buy miles..
I fly.. I earn.. and I try to book tickets.. and realize the value of the miles I earned... are mostly useless
I think I bought miles once to get enough in my account for a particular trip.

I agree, though- they're creating so many points they may as well be pesos or piastres. I remember the Good Old Days- my husband's account had 100,000 miles near expiration, I bought a $15 iTunes card through the shopping portal and later used those miles for 2 RT Business Class trips to Madrid. That's never gonna happen again. (He died in 2016 so that was quite awhile ago.)

Thanks to the OP for the heads-up on the Stand Up to Cancer promo- I have a shiny new AA MasterCard (got it just before the annual fee increase) and just donated $500. That plus the sign-on bonus for the card added 85,000 pesos (I mean Loyalty Points) to my account. Hey, I bet I could get from MCI to ORD on that!
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