The Offer
- American Airlines has released their reduced mileage awards for April 2018 – July 31st, 2018. The discount you’ll receive varies from 1,000 miles to 7,500 miles depending on the route, the card you have and the class of service (e.g First, Business or Main Cabin).
The Fine Print
- Awards may be booked effective April 1, 2018- May 31, 2018
- Awards are valid for travel April 1, 2018 – July 31, 2018
- Awards must be claimed by May 31, 2018
- Award travel must originate in the 48 contiguous United States or Canada
Our Verdict
Not a huge discount but should be useful for at least some readers. Goodluck to everybody in finding sAAver space!
I was just about to book my tickets.
Great timing.
Thanks DoC
It has been my experience that the 10% miles rebate for certain AAdvantage cc holders does indeed stack with this. However the 10% is based on the reduced mileage award price.
Is there still a 10% rebate for redemptions with AAdvantage cards? I saw a post about this from last year, but I don’t see anything about it on my card. https://thepointsguy.com/2017/07/aa-multiple-credit-card-rebates/
Does it work with business cards?
“$75 for award tickets booked or mileage upgrades requested less than 21 days prior to departure”
This includes a lot of February bookings as eligible for the fee.
However
“AAdvantage Executive Platinum, Platinum Pro, Platinum or Gold members using miles from your account are exempt from the fee”
But, alas, this does not include me.
https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/support/optional-service-fees.jsp?anchorEvent=false&from=footer#aadvantage
EWR only has Feb as award eligible. However it seems from reading the comments here that an award eligible destination would qualify the booking for a points rebate corresponding to the card used to book, the distance flown, and the region(s) (US/Can) traversed.
Can you book these online or only by calling? How do we find availability before calling if that’s the case, just regular sAAver on AA.com?
You need to call. Find regular sAAver availability and then call.
In the past I’ve successfully held a saver reservation and then just called in, given them that confirmation number, and gave them the reduced mileage codes to get them to ticket at the reduced rate.
Ok, thanks.
Thanks
Jeremiah for all the great tips including this one.
Very useful.
These are really great when they work for your plans: last week I booked a one way for 8,750 when the best alternative flight would have cost over $200.
Anyone aware whether the codes are valid for more than one use? If so it would make sense to book two one-way flights vs one round-trip, correct?
I’ll likely be jumping on this. Will be calling during lunch to find out about the code usage if nobody else knows
you can book multiple trips. not one time use.
If you book one way you’ll get half the discount
American offering $55 non-stop flights MCO>LAX next week! Main cabin, not just basic. May need to get my butt to Lalaland.
Is it working only on AA metal, or will work for partners like Alaska too? I see award availability on Alaska flights (on AA site) for the same price of 12.5K one way… (same as AA metal).
Can call them, but may be somebody knows.
Thank you in advance!
AA metal only. no partners
Oh man, really tempting. I was going to use UA miles to fly out of PGA in early May (heard it’s a tiny turboprop) but now might just try to hitch to FLG. Thanks for the reminder DoC!
Great Lakes is ceasing operations, so you won’t be able to fly in/out of PGA for now. United is offering refunds to those already on their codeshare flights with Great Lakes (which is the PGA flight).