30% Bonus for AA Conversions-Travel Packages EXCLUDED
Oct 21, 2017, 10:27 am
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Cockeysville, MD
Programs: Marriott Rewards Lifetime Titanium, Amex Plat, Hertz Gold 5*, National Exec, AA Plat
Posts: 9,468
30% Bonus for AA Conversions-Travel Packages EXCLUDED
I cannot think of another promo where they excluded Travel Packages, but it sucks that they did here. I am close to mileage needed for another.
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...ttrewardsbonus
"Travel Packages: Points converted to AAdvantage miles as part of a Marriott Rewards/AAdvantage travel package do not qualify for this promotion"
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...ttrewardsbonus
"Travel Packages: Points converted to AAdvantage miles as part of a Marriott Rewards/AAdvantage travel package do not qualify for this promotion"
Oct 21, 2017, 10:59 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2005
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Platinum
Posts: 374
So if I I take 30,000 Amex rewards to spg. It becomes 30,000 Spg. I then change 30,000 spg to 90,000 Marriott rewards. Then 90,000 Marriott rewards becomes 117,000 aa miles
Correct?
Correct?
Oct 21, 2017, 11:33 am
#3
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 625
Amex Membership Rewards convert at 3:1 in the US, 2:1 in Canada. So 30K MR is either 10K or 15K SPG. Which turns to 30K or 45K Marriott Rewards. 30K Marriott Rewards would turn into 13K AA miles as per the link in the OP, since you can't use a travel package.Towards OP's content, very disappointing, if not understandable. I hope this doesn't catch on with other bonuses in the future. I would guess this would be more of Marriott's doing, since they are the one's that would have to purchase additional AA miles? Or would it be AA limiting the value of their points? No idea here...
Oct 21, 2017, 4:21 pm
#4
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,519
I do recall AA had this exclusion before (a couple years ago??) I think that is the reason why when UA have their promo last year, there were a lot of FTers, including myself, had some discussion if TP included or not on the TP thread.
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So, they just ran an SPG to AA only promo, with bonus if you convert over "x" amount, I think that end Oct 15. Now they ran a Marriott to AA only promo with a low % and no bonus. But the conversion chart is not the same between SPG and Marriott, but I think SPG one is better (haven't done the calculation yet)
So, it seems AA is trying to get people to convert their SPG/Marriott over and it is like this promo is for those that missed out on the SPG promo.
Last edited by alc; Oct 21, 2017 at 4:30 pm
Oct 21, 2017, 6:18 pm
#5
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: TUL
Programs: AA EXP 2MM; Marriott Titanium; Hilton Diamond; Hyatt Explorist; Vistana 5* Elite; Nat'l Exec Elite
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So, they just ran an SPG to AA only promo, with bonus if you convert over "x" amount, I think that end Oct 15. Now they ran a Marriott to AA only promo with a low % and no bonus. But the conversion chart is not the same between SPG and Marriott, but I think SPG one is better (haven't done the calculation yet)
So, it seems AA is trying to get people to convert their SPG/Marriott over and it is like this promo is for those that missed out on the SPG promo.
So, they just ran an SPG to AA only promo, with bonus if you convert over "x" amount, I think that end Oct 15. Now they ran a Marriott to AA only promo with a low % and no bonus. But the conversion chart is not the same between SPG and Marriott, but I think SPG one is better (haven't done the calculation yet)
So, it seems AA is trying to get people to convert their SPG/Marriott over and it is like this promo is for those that missed out on the SPG promo.
Oct 21, 2017, 6:55 pm
#6
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,519
This promo is slightly better than the ongoing bonus for transferring points from SPG (in increments of 20,000). 20,000 SPG StarPoints = 25,000 AAdvantage miles . . . 60,000 Marriott Rewards Points (equivalent of 20,000 SPG StarPoints) yields 26,000 AAdvantage miles with this promo.
http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...ransfer-bonus/
This promo that started today with the highest one at 140K Marriott to 65K AA, that is 1 Marriott to 0.464 SPG
So, this promo is equivalent as 1 SPG to 1.392, hence the SPG to AA promo was better.
Oct 21, 2017, 7:10 pm
#7
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: TUL
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Nov 3, 2017, 4:02 am
#8
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 786
Bummer, I just stumbled upon this offer, I was hopeful it would apply to travel packages like the last one gave me 150k AA miles from the 120K package.
Does anyone know the total AA miles earn’t with the 30% bonus when converting 270k Marriott rewards?
Thanks.
Does anyone know the total AA miles earn’t with the 30% bonus when converting 270k Marriott rewards?
Thanks.
Nov 3, 2017, 4:48 am
#9
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,519
From the link off post 1, you will get:
10,000 2,000 +600 2,600
20,000 5,000 +1,500 6,500
30,000 10,000 +3,000 13,000
70,000 25,000 +7,500 32,500
140,000 50,000 +15,000 65,000
So 270K will be 140K + 70K + 30K + 30K and hence, 65K + 32.5K + 13K + 13K = 123.5 AA... so you trade the 7-nights cert for 3.5K AA
10,000 2,000 +600 2,600
20,000 5,000 +1,500 6,500
30,000 10,000 +3,000 13,000
70,000 25,000 +7,500 32,500
140,000 50,000 +15,000 65,000
So 270K will be 140K + 70K + 30K + 30K and hence, 65K + 32.5K + 13K + 13K = 123.5 AA... so you trade the 7-nights cert for 3.5K AA
Last edited by alc; Nov 3, 2017 at 5:02 am
Nov 3, 2017, 10:13 am
#10
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 786
From the link off post 1, you will get:
10,000 2,000 +600 2,600
20,000 5,000 +1,500 6,500
30,000 10,000 +3,000 13,000
70,000 25,000 +7,500 32,500
140,000 50,000 +15,000 65,000
So 270K will be 140K + 70K + 30K + 30K and hence, 65K + 32.5K + 13K + 13K = 123.5 AA... so you trade the 7-nights cert for 3.5K AA
10,000 2,000 +600 2,600
20,000 5,000 +1,500 6,500
30,000 10,000 +3,000 13,000
70,000 25,000 +7,500 32,500
140,000 50,000 +15,000 65,000
So 270K will be 140K + 70K + 30K + 30K and hence, 65K + 32.5K + 13K + 13K = 123.5 AA... so you trade the 7-nights cert for 3.5K AA
Totally not worth it.
Nov 9, 2017, 6:39 am
#11
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: SYDNEY
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Posts: 1,890
so has anyone tried to redeem their miles with the travel package and ended up with the bonus miles yet ?
Nov 9, 2017, 9:04 am
#12
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,519
So, I doubt you will get the bonus. beside, this is not the first time AA run promo that exclude TP. So, any potential bug in their code would had been fixed.
Nov 10, 2017, 6:14 am
#13
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: SYDNEY
Programs: *A Gold, HH dia,Hyatt plat,Sixt PLAT,QF , EY Gold
Posts: 1,890
thank you for the information
Jun 29, 2018, 8:12 am
#14
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,126
I noticed that American Airlines is no longer listed as a Hotel & Air Package partner at https://www.marriott.co.uk/rewards/u...ts/morepack.mi. Does anyone know if this is actually the case, or is it a typo (given they're listed as a main partner https://www.marriott.com/marriott-re...arn/miles.mi)?
Jun 29, 2018, 8:22 am
#15
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They are still listed as a Hotel + Air Package 1 partner on the US site:
https://www.marriott.com/rewards/usepoints/morepack.mi
"Participating Airlines: Aeromexico, Air Canada*, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airways, Copa Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, GOL/Varig, Hawaiian Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Virgin Atlantic"
https://www.marriott.com/rewards/usepoints/morepack.mi
"Participating Airlines: Aeromexico, Air Canada*, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airways, Copa Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, GOL/Varig, Hawaiian Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Virgin Atlantic"