Andrew’s a lifelong traveler who puts in over 100,000 miles a year, with over 25 countries, 10 business class products, and 2 airline statuses (United and Alaska) under his belt. Andrew’s worked at Th...
Edited by: Kellie Jez
Kellie’s professional experience has led her to a deep passion for compliance, data reporting, and process improvement. Kellie’s learned the ins and outs of the points and miles world and leads UP’s c...
16 comments
John Trevino
August 23, 2019
How do I figure how many points it cost on an economy round trip from San Antonio, Tx. to other cities in the states? And can I use points anytime?
Jarrod West
August 25, 2019
Hi John,
Yes, you can use your miles any time you’d like pending that there are available award seats. American Airlines publishes an award chart that lets you know how many miles you need for a particular flight, you can view that award chart here: https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-program/miles/redeem/award-travel/flight-award-chart.jsp
Jennifer C Nordbladh
April 30, 2020
You can no longer redeem your AA Mileage points for gift cards at http://www.points.com. I’m not sure if the COVID-19 pandemic is the reason.
Cory B
June 13, 2020
You cannot redeem AA miles for gift cards nor magazines. This was effective early 2020, and this article says May 7, 2020. Either I am wrong, or this author needs to do more research and should report accurate info.
Jarrod West
June 14, 2020
Hi Cory,
American Airlines still appears to have an active partnership with points.com to use your AA miles for gift cards, do you have some information stating otherwise? You’re correct that they no longer allow for magazine redemptions so I’ve removed that info from the post, but they do still allow for newspaper subscriptions.
Thanks for reading!
Jeff
June 25, 2020
All you can do with AAdvantage in points.com right now is check your mileage balance. “Redeem” is not an option. Similarly, “gift cards” no longer appears as an option at AA.com under “redeem miles.”
EJ
March 01, 2021
How do I redeem my American Airlines Advantage miles for gift cards?
Jarrod West
March 01, 2021
Hi EJ,
You can redeem your AA miles for gift cards through points.com.
Erin Wilkinson
June 11, 2021
I do not see AA as an option for redeeming on points.com.
Daryll Chandler
May 11, 2021
As Jeff said a year ago, it stopped being possible around that time and is still not possible to redeem for gift cards through points.com. You can only view your balance on that website, and it was removed from AA’s redemption offerings.
A real shame, because this is my preferred method of redemption, regardless of the point value.
Matthew J Brady
June 27, 2021
AAdvantage Miles are apparently no longer good for Gift Cards. Thanks alot, AA. :-/
Keith W.
April 14, 2022
American Airlines miles are pretty much useless now for anything but travel-related stuff.
Mal
April 17, 2022
This was very helpful. I forgot completely about the ability to ability to use AA points for short-haul flights here in Australia.
Katie Seemann
April 18, 2022
Hi Mal,
We love hearing that. Happy travels!
Helen Vislusky
August 13, 2022
When a trip from Pa to Fl is listed at 46k how much does that ticket cost in regular dollars?
Jarrod West
August 15, 2022
Hi Helen,
It depends! American is not a fixed rewards currency so the amount of miles isn’t directly tied to the cash price.
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