So you are telling me that if I purchase an F ticket, I'll get the same LP as a Y ticket?

If they cost the same, yes.

Except Basic Economy tickets as of Dec 17 2025 they do not earn LPs. You can expect more changes coming that are not good if this American follows Delta.

I'm at 215K LPs and trying to determine whether to reach for 250K. I already told myself I wouldn't reach for coupons, but surely at some point it's worth considering. What monetary value would you place on the 2 awards at the 250K level?

The bonus miles are the easiest probably - 30,000 x 2 = 60,000 x .015 = $900 (though I usually don't have much difficulty using for J awards to Europe on a $3K+ ticket). Still, I'll say this has $900 in value.

The LPs are a little tricky. You get half as many, but they obviously hold more value. If I'd taken the LPs last year, I'd be very close to 250K now. I'd maybe value 30,000 LP the same as 60,000 miles, so let's say $900.

SWU is where I expect a lot of disagreement. I took 6 last year and still sitting on 2 which is unusual. Historically, I've been one of the few that seems to easily maximize my value out of SWUs, but I traveled less last year, flew a lot on partners, redeemed a lot of miles, and paid into J a few times. While I'm usually getting $2K+ in value per upgrade on average, I wouldn't always be booking full fare business in the absence of an upgrade. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'd personally value each SWU at about $800. So $800 x 4 = $3,200

The other LP rewards don't interest me from a value standpoint.

So I'm about $3,100 away in terms of AA spend from the 250K reward if earning 11LP/$. At this rate, I'd say it's not worth reaching for. Just curious how far others here are going to reach for their next reward threshold.

You already told yourself it's not worth it, that's where you stand. At $3000 plus in travel for maybe $3000 in value, why not just buy those upgrades with that money if it's really burning a hole in your pocket?

At this point that's absolutely my plan. However, I could easily have 2-3 more work trips come up in the next few weeks and may only be stretching for $1000. More than advice on what to do, I'm just curious about others' strategies and how y'all value these rewards.

To me if you only have to achieve net 1k in spend to hit 250k I�d made the push.

I was in a similar situation last year, sub 1k in spend in February on cc and shopping but still felt worthwhile to gain the 250k rewards, then successfully used all 6 SWU�s (175k and 250k) for the family so out of pocket cost was notably lower than had I paid for the upgrades.

I would look to the shopping portal, and the Hotels portal. I think you could score that many LP's for +- $1K. At that price differential I would buy them. But I value an SWU at about $700 or so - very close to your estimate. For 3K I would not do it, as others have said just spend the $ on the next business class fares / upgrades.

Thanks - I thought it was not long ago that I came across a chart indicating lower bonuses for certain fare buckets in J. But regardless, good to know that it is irrlevant.

Been the case since 2022 for AA flights. There are apparently rare exceptions as noted here, but unless a special fare, are likely vanishingly rare:
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...cial-fares.jsp

There are also still a few partners where it continues to be a miles-based calculation, but most of those have switched over as well:
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...r-airlines.jsp

Decided to go for it, and had forgotten the value of aadvantagehotels for LP earning. Between my flight and two nights in a hotel, I managed to find a way to 56K LP for $3,383.20 all-in. Not bad. Booking into F for JFK-LAX is always fun too. I was easily going to expense at least $1,500 of this for work travel anyways, so I'd say the added spend is worth it.

My AAdvantage account has several hundred extra LPs posted today with the title: "Loyalty Point Reward Extra Bonus". Extra LPs are always nice I suppose, although I don't really need this small tranche as I've already hit the highest milestone that I'm going to reach for 2026. Still, I have no idea why I received these bonus LPs or for what.

Any wise folks here receive something similar and know why?

I received something similar, but don't know why. Posted today, but activity backdated to Jan 31. The amount exactly matches the amount of a posting on Jan 29th (a small 3 digit number from an AA dining transaction, which included a 30% bonus)

Ah, that's it. I had two "qualified" dines in the month of January, which each also included the 30% bonus, and the amount of the "Loyalty Point Reward Extra Bonus" that I received exactly matches the sum of those two AA dining postings.

Was there a promo of some kind? If so, I stumbled backwards and ignorant into it.

I just received a little over 100,000 LPs overnight with that title and I have no idea what it's for but I'll take it.

Edit: It was dated 1/31 but posted today.