Now through January 4, American AAdvantage members can earn up to 75,000 American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles  when you buy or gift miles.

With this offer if you wanted to buy 125,000 American AAdvantage miles, meaning you’d receive the 75,000 bonus, for a total of  200,000 miles for $3,994.06 which comes out to about 1.9 cents per mile, which isn’t that bad of a deal if you know how to leverage your American AAdvantage miles.

Bonus Earning Chart:

Terms and Conditions

AAdvantage members must purchase at least 6,000 AAdvantage miles or more in a single transaction from the Buy or Gift Miles program from 7:00:00am CT November 15, 2015 to 11:59:59pm CT January 4, 2016, to be eligible to earn bonus miles. The applicable bonus miles are awarded to the recipient for Gift Miles transactions. The applicable bonus miles awarded are shown beside each mileage increment in the mileage selection drop-down box. Bonus miles earned do not count toward the annual limits.

Transactions are nonrefundable and nonreversible. The miles successfully purchased or transferred will post to the designated account immediately. Each AAdvantage member is limited to purchasing or receiving in a calendar year, a combined total of no more than 125,000 AAdvantage miles. Miles purchased through the Buy Miles program or received as a gift through the Gift Miles program count against this total. The miles purchased with the Buy Miles program and received with the Gift Miles program do not count towards AAdvantage Gold, AAdvantage Platinum, AAdvantage Executive Platinum or AAdvantage Million MilerSM status qualification. A confirmation email will be sent to the primary buyer/gifter and/or recipient, using the email address(es) associated with the AAdvantage account(s) and any additional email address provided. AAdvantage accounts less than 30 days old are not permitted to Buy or Gift Miles.

By registering for this program, I hereby accept the Terms & Conditions of the AAdvantage program.

Bottom Line

I wouldn’t generally buy these just to buy them speculatively, but if you need a few more for an award ticket, or want to book a business class flight and save some money from buying it, then there are instances when this could make sense to do it.