Earning and Accumulating American AAdvantage Miles

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Below, I outline the main ways in which to earn and accumulate American AAdvantage miles?

1. Fly American, or oneworld Airline Participants, or additional airline participants

Award miles earned from flying are calculated to reward you when you spend more. When traveling on flights marketed by American, you’ll earn miles based on the price paid for your ticket and if you have AA elite status; the higher your status, the more you’ll earn. The breakdown is as follows:

5 miles/U.S. dollar – AAdvantage member
7 miles/U.S. dollar – Gold
8 miles/U.S. dollar – Platinum
11 miles/U.S. dollar – Executive Platinum

2. Earn miles with JetBlue

Earn AAdvantage miles for travel on JetBlue within the U.S. and between the U.S. and the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and South America. Miles are earned based on ticket price. Like above, the more you spend, and the higher your elite status, the more you’ll earn.

3. Use an American Airlines AAdvantage credit card

Read about some of these cards, namely from Citibank and Barclays. There are a lot!

When you use these cards you earn American AAdvantage miles for each $1 spent. In some case, you earn bonus miles on AA tickets purchased directly from the airline and generally 1 AA mile per $1 on all other purchases. Also, depending on the card, there are BONUS POINTS offers if you meet minimum spend requirements.

4. Transfer Bilt Points To Your American Airlines AAdvantage Account

There is finally an loyalty program whose currency can be transferred to American Airlines. You can tranfser your Bilt Rewards Points to your AAdvantage account at 1:1.

5. Earn Miles for Using Miles

With certain AA credit cards, earn 10% of your redeemed AAdvantage miles back – up to 10,000 AAdvantage miles each calendar year. Citi/AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite MasterCard is a card that offers this feature.