AA 4X Miles Promo with Citi AAdvantage Card - question
 

I assume many of you know about the ongoing promotion of 4X miles for eligible AA purchases using the Citibank AAdvantage Credit Card... this promo runs from 9/28/22 to 12/31/22 and is valid for select "eligible" AA spend - and of course AA airfares purchased are considered valid. Also (as far as I understand from the details Ive been reading), the 4X miles will all count towards LP - so then 4x miles earned will equate to 4x LPs.... (???).

I would request the AA experts kindly confrm if my above interpretation of 4x Miles under this promo being valid as LP is correct, or not. If these bonus 4x miles do not count as LP, I would not be interested in pursuing this.

Second question... I was thinking of anticipating AA spend for the 2023 trips that I have planned.... so then, would I be OK with booking reservations (and issuing and paying for them) before the 12/31 deadline, so as to earn the 4X miles (and LPs), and then just cancel and get trip/flight credit (sorry, I never remember which credit is due in which case) and use that to rebook future travel...? Needless to say, my tickets that I will be purchasing are for flights that begin (and end) AFTER the deadline will have passed (ie. I will be issuing tickets for flights int January 2023).

I guess my above second questions is a 2x1 question, because while I understand that the valid AA spend must be done before the Promo deadline, I have not seen any requirements as to having to actually FLY the issued tickets before the deadline set for this promotion.

I hope Ive been able to make myself clear - and would appreciate any insight/advice the AA board elders would care to share.

Kind regards & thanks in advance for everybody's help with this.

Cheers,
Alex / Gaucho100K

From the offer T&Cs:

OK, so my premise as posted above is flawed, so if I spend $1000 on AA airfares I will get 4x miles but the LP accrual will only be 1x.....

Grrrrrr

The T&C talk about eligible miles.... is this the same as "base" miles.....?

Perhaps someone that spent on this promo early on and already has had the bonus posted to their AA account can share their experiences....?

Thanks !!

If people were getting 4x LP on credit card spending, it would have been all over this forum several months ago. $50,000 in CC spending would get people Executive Platinum status.

for AA purchases, you only earn 1 LP toward status, the other 3 LPs are considered bonus and do not apply toward status. With AA credit cards, you get 1 LP for status and 1 LP as a bonus (not counted toward status). The Executive CC just raises the bonus from 1 LP to 3 LPs.

You will earn the LPs at time of ticket purchase. If you cancel the ticket, you still keep the LPs since you only get a flight credit and not cash back. It is a risky strategy since you would have only 1 year to use the flight credit from time of purchase and can not combine flight credits.

The bonus posted a week ago on my account, do you have a specific question I can help you with?

Most of the promos like this that I've seen are pretty limited in terms of the amount of spend that the promo actually applies to. I got a Q4 promo and it was limited to 2500 bonus miles, so just $625 in eligible spend. No danger of anyone qualifying for EXP on these promos even if the bonus miles were counted. Signup bonuses would be a much more significant consideration.

In any case, I agree the bonus miles don't count towards status. Here's what I see with my bonus miles:

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