American Airlines: Purchase Miles From 1.82¢ Per Mile

The Offer

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• American Airlines is selling miles at a discount. You need to log in to see your offer but the best offer is as follows:
  • Buy 15,000-25,000 miles, get 5,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 26,000-39,000 miles, get 10,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 40,000-59,000 miles, get 15,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 60,000-74,000 miles, get 25,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 75,000-89,000 miles, get 35,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 90,000-99,000 miles, get 50,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 100,000-124,000 miles, get 60,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 125,000-149,000 miles, get 80,000 bonus miles
  • Buy 150,000 miles, get 100,000 bonus miles

The Fine Print

• Valid until September 30th, 2020
• Cap on the amount of miles you can purchase (before the bonus) has been increased from 150,000 to 200,000

Our Verdict

Best pricing is the 250,000 total miles for $4,554.77, this works out to be 1.82¢ per mile. Recent deals have been for 1.78¢ or 1.8¢ but earlier this year we saw 1.5¢. Even at 1.5¢ these aren’t a good buy in my opinion. Once travel starts to stabilize I wouldn’t be surprised to see airline loyalty programs begin to aggressively devalue rewards programs again and when it comes to that nobody does it better than American Airlines.