American Airlines has announced their latest Buy Miles promotion, where you can earn up to 105,000 bonus American Airlines AAdvantage miles through January 10, 2021. American Airlines constantly offers promotions when purchasing miles, so I’m not the least surprised to see another one being offered.

With this new offer if you wanted to buy 150,000 American AAdvantage miles, meaning you’d receive the 105,000 bonus for a total of 255,000 miles for $5,643.75 including taxes and fees, which comes out to about 2.21 cents per mile, which is not a good deal, as we’ve much better bonuses in the past, so I’d personally advise waiting for a better offer.

For context, American recently offered a similar promotion Earn Up To 125,000 Bonus American AAdvantage Miles, which came out to 1.73 cents. American seems to have some bonus offer each month, so I wouldn’t purchase speculatively given the current conditions of air travel.

Offer Details: 

• Start the new year planning your next adventure with up to 70% bonus miles when you buy or gift miles.
• Use your eligible AAdvantage® credit card to earn additional miles for every dollar you spend.

Buy Miles Example:

Terms and Conditions:

Transactions are nonrefundable and nonreversible. The miles successfully purchased usually post to the designated account right away, but please allow up to 8 hours for processing. Prices are in U.S. dollars and do not include taxes or the applicable per transaction processing charge. Miles purchased, transferred or received as a gift do not count toward elite-status qualification. Members may purchase for themselves or receive as a gift, a maximum combined total of 150,000 AAdvantage® miles in a calendar year. The miles purchased with the Buy Miles program and received with the Gift Miles program do not count towards AAdvantage Gold, AAdvantage Platinum, AAdvantage Platinum Pro, AAdvantage Executive Platinum or AAdvantage Million Miler^SM status qualification. You can check your balance online by logging on to www.aa.com. Buy Miles or Gift Miles transactions are non-refundable, non-transferable and non-exchangeable. 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. If a transaction is voided or cancelled please note the funds were not charged to your credit card, however your credit card company may place a hold on the fund/credit for 24-72 hours. Please contact your card provider for more information. Other terms may apply.

Bottom Line

Do you plan on taking advantage of this offer? Feel free to share you thoughts below.