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American Airlines has launched a new way for AAdvantage credit card holders to earn extra miles and the new program, called SimplyMiles, works in a similar way to the offers we see Chase and American Express target at their cardholders.
At the time of writing the SimplyMiles website is running incredibly slowly (trust American to roll out a new program and then fail spectacularly with the IT implementation) but I think I’ve been able to get to the bottom of how this program works.
Registration
Access the registration page (link) and login to SimplyMiles using your existing AAdvantage account information.
You’ll then be greeted by name and prompted to enter the details of your American Airlines co-branded credit card(s).
With that done you’ll be taken to your SimplyMiles homepage:
The Offers
While some of the offers allow American Airlines co-branded cardholders the chance to earn a chunk of AAdvantage Miles in return for hitting a specific spending target…
…most of the offers I’m seeing are ones where a cardholder will earn an enhanced number of miles per dollar spent.
What’s interesting here is that a lot of the retailers on the SimplyMiles page also appear in the AAdvantage shopping portal…
…so, as the two programs appear to be unrelated, it should be possible to stack the offers to earn even more points.
In this case, a purchase at Solstice made through the AAdvantage shopping portal using a credit card with the SimplyMiles offer loaded on to it should earn 8.5 miles per dollar spent on top of the 1 mile/dollar that the credit card offers on everyday spending anyway.
Bottom Line
Right now I’ not seeing any amazing deals on my offer page but it’s still nice to be able to earn yet more points for online purchases (and, in some cases, in-person purchases) that I was going to make anyway.
The offers all appear to be valid for a minimum of a month and some are valid through March 2020 so, in that respect, they are more usable offers than the ones that we see Chase offering on its credit cards and close to what we see American Express offering (albeit not as lucrative)
This may not be a gamechanger but with a major shopping season nearly upon us, this is a nice little enhancement for AAdvantage credit card holders.
Actually always check AA EShopping first. Lots of times they will have extra points per $1 spent. I get lots of 3, 5 n 10 miles per $1. In eight months I’ve gotten 50,000+ miles just from using EShopping.
Who cares about these points? They are about worthless. Need more points to get the basic economy where you can get bumped. We teu3d to redeem points for unrestricted flight but fun y how I can buy two without a problem but when I try to use my points that unrestricted miles do not even pull up the flight.
American Airlines rewards postings are a rip-off! They list flights on their website with partners that are not available when you go to book them. I have tried numerous flights from CA to Europe at 57.5K miles in business saver class but they are never available. What a rip-off! In contrast it was very easy to book a business class award with United.
I signed up for 6 different offers and only got miles for one of them. I made purchases that should have gotten me almost 20,000 miles and I received 1800 miles. I have tried to contact the program and they do not respond at all. Its a scam as far as I can tell