American Airlines: 5,000 Mile Web Specials (Including Transcon)

Is there a way to be notified of these sales without waiting for blogs to post?

AA is just unloading crappy routes/married segments. Most of 5K fares I’ve found require an long (3+ hours) or overnight layover.

Edit: I take this back. Some ‘undesirable days’ have good connections.

Any example of a transcon for 5k?

These stuck around for a while last time. I was still booking 5-7k tickets a week later. Don’t just focus on transcons, check any flights you thought of taking – I got tickets between San Diego and Tulsa and Reno and few others seemingly random places.

Also, booking round trip can sometimes end up being less than two one ways. Sometimes the prices go up or down by the end of booking process vs what’s shown in the initial results.

too bad not bringing back the 5k flights to Hawaii. have been checking religiously over past weeks and it never returned.

Thank you for posting…got 3x AUS-PHL non-stop in June for 13k per ticket….great deal.

Thanks Doc! Found a 5k flight out of my city to Houston that otherwise would always be too much $$$/points. Now I can cancel a Southwest flight that required a drive.

thank you again Doc. found a great flight for dirt cheap points.

MIA-SEA jan/feb/mar 5k

is there a LINK to which airports are involved in the 5k sale? Thanks.

I was able to book me and hubby for 15000 each pbi to iad for our vacation in March!

My earlier post on this topic with a link to an AA website didn’t make it through the spam filter but google “AA award mapper” and play around with sample dates (try a non-holiday Tuesday in the month you want to travel), and select “Continental US” after selecting your home airport. I’d start by searching one way for one ticket with an 8000 mile max spend. Then pick another off-peak day and see if any different routes pop up. This will help identify which routes from your hometown are likely to work. When you then do a route-specific search, go for the whole month calendar option.

Probably goes without saying, but these are AA’s Economy Web Specials, which cannot be changed after booking. Eg: you can’t book a route and later change the dates (like you can with most AA awards).