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Preventing AAdvantage Miles and Accounts from Expiring:
What can I do? Alternatives for miles use and discussion.
To check your miles expiration date: Look for the Wallet link on the website or in the app.
AAdvantage members who are under 21 are not subject to mileage expiration if their birthday is associated with their account.
But note:
ANY account activity, earning or using miles, will extend the expiration date of all AA miles by an additional 18 months.
When days count, be aware: it's the transaction date, not the posting date, that counts to extend miles' validity. It can take some time for miles activity to fully post, including the new expiration date. But, read on. Be aware of some vendors’ delayed posting, however.
For other relevant threads and resources see:
aa.com and Others:
Using or getting rid of miles
FlyerTalk:
Here are some suggestions from members on how to prevent miles from expiring easily and/or automatically. Please post your suggestions here.
For previous posts on this topic, please see ARCHIVE: Prevent AA miles / account from expiring / alternate use of miles
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What can I do? Alternatives for miles use and discussion.
To check your miles expiration date: Look for the Wallet link on the website or in the app.
From AAdvantage Terms and Conditions: "AAdvantage members must have mileage earning or redeeming activity once every 18 months in order to retain their miles. If your account has no qualifying activity in any 18-month period, all miles in the account will expire. Qualifying activity extends the expiration date of all unexpired mileage credit in your account for 18 months from the date of the qualifying activity. Qualifying activity is defined as redeeming any AAdvantage award or accruing mileage credit on any eligible American, American Eagle® or AAdvantage airline participant as well as accruing mileage credit with participating hotels, car rental companies, credit cards, telecommunication providers and other service providers offering AAdvantage mileage credit." Gufting or donating miles, doing anything that will cause an increase or decrease in the number of award miles in an AAdvantage account resets the expiration clock by 18 months.
But note:
Pausing AAdvantage® mile expiration through June 2021
You’ve worked hard to earn your AAdvantage® miles, and we recognize you may need more time than usual to keep them active. We’ve paused the expiration of miles through June 30, 2021. If your miles are scheduled to expire on or before June 30, 2021, they will now expire in July 2021, if there’s no additional activity in your account before then. You can find the expiration date of your miles in the Wallet section of your AAdvantage® account.
You’ve worked hard to earn your AAdvantage® miles, and we recognize you may need more time than usual to keep them active. We’ve paused the expiration of miles through June 30, 2021. If your miles are scheduled to expire on or before June 30, 2021, they will now expire in July 2021, if there’s no additional activity in your account before then. You can find the expiration date of your miles in the Wallet section of your AAdvantage® account.
When days count, be aware: it's the transaction date, not the posting date, that counts to extend miles' validity. It can take some time for miles activity to fully post, including the new expiration date. But, read on. Be aware of some vendors’ delayed posting, however.
"Activity date" is how the airline sees it, but beware that the date as reported by the shopping portal vendor can be a "gotcha." From my own experiences of various online vendors, the "activity date" reported can be the date you placed the order, OR the date your order was "received", OR the date your order was "processed", OR the date a transaction "hold" was placed on your credit card, OR the date your credit card company actually approved the transaction, OR the date your order was shipped, OR the date it was picked up (if in-store, for example), OR...etc., etc. And, don't forget time zone differences, too, if your cutoff date is very close (is it the time zone/date of where you ordered, or the vendor's website server, or the vendor's physical store, or...?) In other words, each online vendor may define and report the activity date to the airline in ways you didn't expect. I have seen an instance, for example, where the reported activity date was almost 2 weeks past the actual date I placed the order, simply because a part was on back-order, thus the full order was not "completed" and therefore the credit card not billed until later. Another example is flower delivery, especially if the flowers aren't scheduled for delivery until much later. Buyer beware -- the airline will refer you to the vendor for clarification.
aa.com and Others:
- Link to AA restricts expired miles reactivation within 18 months of expiration (2019) thread
- Link to How to Reactivate / Restore Expired Miles – Reengagement Challenge thread
- Link to Miles for Opinions surveys - not many miles, but it resets the clock.
- Link to Car Rental partners
- Link- Business and Financial: Earn AAdvantage miles when you buy, sell, or move your home with American HomeMiles by SIRVA, BankDirect, Fidelity, Lifelock, Network Solutions, PreFlight parking, Regus, etc.
- Link Buying, Gifting, Sharing AA Miles (Points.com)
- Link- Charities: Contributing Money (Earning Miles): Susan G. Komen, National Cancer Research Foundation, USO
- Link- Financial and Business: Earn AAdvantage miles when you buy, sell, or move your home with American HomeMiles by SIRVA, BankDirect, Fidelity, Lifelock, Network Solutions, PreFlight parking, Regus, etc.
- Link - Home and Health: DIRECTV, Energy Plus, Everything Energy, because Energy, Reliant, Spafinder Wellness 365
- Link to ALL Hotel partners
- Links to Hotel Bookings via pointshound.com, rocketmiles.com and Kaligo.com
- Link - Retail And Dining: AAdvantage eShopping Mall, AAdvantage Dining Program, FTD, Teleflora, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Vinesse Wine
- Linkaa.com - Reactivating expired miles (for fee)
Using or getting rid of miles
- Redeem Miles:- Link
Includes Hotel rooms and auto rentals, Newspapers, Gift Cards, Lifelock.
Includes link to Link to Use AA Miles: (redeem for car rentals and lodging) - Link - Charities: Donating Miles Miles for All Who Serve, Miles for Kids in Need, Miles of Hope.
Here are some suggestions from members on how to prevent miles from expiring easily and/or automatically. Please post your suggestions here.
- Sign up and register a credit card with AAdvantage Dining, go dine at an enrolled restaurant. (Sign up with your email address for notifications for 3 miles per dollar spent instead of one mile; dine 11 times in one year and earn 5 miles per dollar.)
- Make any purchase through https://www.aadvantageeshopping.comthat earns AA miles.
- Another easy/cheap route is ordering photos from Walgreens.com. It specifically says in the terms "photo orders picked up in-store are eligible." Prints are as cheap as US$0.29, but I'd purchase at least $1 worth to make sure you get your miles (2miles/$1).
For previous posts on this topic, please see ARCHIVE: Prevent AA miles / account from expiring / alternate use of miles
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Prevent AA miles / account from expiring / expiration & spend for other than flying
#151
Join Date: Jul 2015
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help me from losing my AAdvantage points which are due to expire
Hi,
My American Airlines Frequent Flyer points expire on the 8th of October. I have Airmiles with Virgin, Asia Miles and Qantas which are all linked to Points but unfortunatley points.com does not let you transfer between these companies to keep the AA points from expiring. Do you have an idea how I can stop these from expiring as I have over 13,000 and dont want to waste them.
Cheers,
P.S Im in the UK if that makes a difference
My American Airlines Frequent Flyer points expire on the 8th of October. I have Airmiles with Virgin, Asia Miles and Qantas which are all linked to Points but unfortunatley points.com does not let you transfer between these companies to keep the AA points from expiring. Do you have an idea how I can stop these from expiring as I have over 13,000 and dont want to waste them.
Cheers,
P.S Im in the UK if that makes a difference
#152
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Cheapest way seems to be to purchase an iTune
though Mrs pandaperth chose to donate 1,000 miles to one of the charities
Cheapest way seems to be to purchase an iTune
though Mrs pandaperth chose to donate 1,000 miles to one of the charities
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#153
Join Date: Jul 2015
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Posts: 13
I dont do Apple products, so it would be a case of setting up Itunes in the UK and puchasing music on there through the Aadvantage website. Ill have a look into that now. Thanks for your help its much appreciated
#154
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My American Airlines Frequent Flyer points expire on the 8th of October. I have Airmiles with Virgin, Asia Miles and Qantas which are all linked to Points but unfortunatley points.com does not let you transfer between these companies to keep the AA points from expiring. Do you have an idea how I can stop these from expiring as I have over 13,000 and dont want to waste them.
Cheers,
P.S Im in the UK if that makes a difference
Cheers,
P.S Im in the UK if that makes a difference
~Moderator
#155
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I don't do Apple either, but I know some that do, so you could do an ITunes Gift Card and send it to someone.
#156
Join Date: Jul 2015
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Posts: 13
Hi,
Ive just tried to register on http://www.aadvantageeshopping.com to buy something but because im not located in the U.S it wont let me. Im in the UK - What other options are there to earning a few extra miles to stop my account balance expiring in a few weeks?
Thanks
Ive just tried to register on http://www.aadvantageeshopping.com to buy something but because im not located in the U.S it wont let me. Im in the UK - What other options are there to earning a few extra miles to stop my account balance expiring in a few weeks?
Thanks
#157
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: South Florida
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Posts: 11,329
Hi,
Ive just tried to register on http://www.aadvantageeshopping.com to buy something but because im not located in the U.S it wont let me. Im in the UK - What other options are there to earning a few extra miles to stop my account balance expiring in a few weeks?
Thanks
Ive just tried to register on http://www.aadvantageeshopping.com to buy something but because im not located in the U.S it wont let me. Im in the UK - What other options are there to earning a few extra miles to stop my account balance expiring in a few weeks?
Thanks
#159
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...e-members.html
#160
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Here is the link for NON US members from the WIKI
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...e-members.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...e-members.html
#161
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#162
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Not sure why you don't see the Wiki. They show above the first post on each page for me, with a link to open the entire Wiki. However, a link that may give some insight is: http://flyerguide.com/index.php/Non-Air_Mileage_(AA).
#163
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The page you sent to me says the following:
Non-Air Mileage (AA
There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page.
Non-Air Mileage (AA
There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page.
#164
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I see that now... There was text when I looked earlier, but not now. Sorry.
#165
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Click here to display full wiki
displayed in the centre.
If you can't see that:
If you're seeing a dark blue at the top of this thread, between the dark blue stripe starting with MyFlyerTalk and the top left Post Reply icon, go to the very right of this horizontal stripe and click the tiny + sign to expand the wiki. This should work for all threads with wikis.
More generally, if you go to MyFlyerTalk (for example, using the orange, yellow, and blue oval icon in the upper right corner of the page), look down the left column, and select something like Edit Options, then go to the very bottom and there's a box to check for wikis. Be sure to save your changes before exiting options. MSPeconomist in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...ing-wikis.html
More generally, if you go to MyFlyerTalk (for example, using the orange, yellow, and blue oval icon in the upper right corner of the page), look down the left column, and select something like Edit Options, then go to the very bottom and there's a box to check for wikis. Be sure to save your changes before exiting options. MSPeconomist in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...ing-wikis.html
(Of course, no wikis on Mobile FT.)
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