Originally Posted by
danmb280
I have 11,000 points in my AA Advantage account and need a one way international ticket so I figured i could buy the remaining points that i need for less than the price of a ticket. However through AA it comes out to about the same and not worth it so I figured I'd ask people on this forum if there were alternative ways to obtain the points that i need. I appreciate your reply as the other people's replies are nothing but useless comments and make flyertalk more and more a mockery. I'm a much more active member on another forum site not related to travel and people there are much more respectful and understand the point of a forum.
From where/to where are you going?
If you don't want to sign up for the credit card, you are NOT going to get 20K miles without spending money and time. The mockery is that you appear to have done little, if any, research into how the program operates, even though AA is constantly reminding us of ways to earn miles. There is no EAASY button. You have 1/3 of the miles needed for the award you want. If it were that easy to pick up the other 2/3, there wouldn't be enough seats available for you to get one. AA.com has a lot of info on earning miles.
Here's another place to look for ways to earn.
http://www.aadvantagepromotionspassport.com/