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Just a few years ago earning elite status on American Airlines was incredibly easy to understand. At that time there were only three levels, Gold, Platinum, and Executive Platinum. You earned each at 25,000 miles, 50,000 miles and 100,000 miles, respectively. Also, back then you earned 1 mile per mile flown no matter how much…
As many of you may know, I don’t fly United Airlines or Star Alliance partners all that often. Instead, I stick to American Airlines and the OneWorld Alliance. Because I rarely fly United, I have a fairly difficult time earning United MileagePlus miles. Sure, I’m earning plenty of American AAdvantage miles so don’t feel too…
The other day I saw a rather interesting email from Chase regarding my Sapphire Reserve card. It was a standard marketing email, but one that caught my eye. It caught my eye because it was promoting a use of points that I would never advise and one that is typically a terrible value. That is,…
When people learn about my travel addiction hobby, they almost always ask for at least one tip that they may not know about. That is, if they are still standing there listening to me rambling on about loyalty programs… For a while my advice was the basic stuff about joining a loyalty program or opening…
It’s been a while since I’ve written about the AAdvantage Dining program and the reason for that is pretty simple. I haven’t been writing about the program because it’s been a while since I’ve used the AAdvantage Dining Program. See, a few months ago I moved from Chicago to New York and since moving I…
While I realize it’s still several weeks before the year’s halfway point, in a certain way, for me, the year is already well more than halfway over. Already this year I’ve earned 92,000 Elite Qualifying Miles and just over $13,000 Elite Qualifying Dollars with the American Airlines AAdvantage program. That’s just shy of the 100,000…
Well, 2019 has been shaping up to be an interesting year. I went into this year thinking that I would be doing minimal flying. That’s relative because I’ll of course fly over 100,000 miles to re-qualify, but I thought flying beyond that would be limited. However, I’ve actually been doing a quite a bit more…
Ok fine, I’ll admit it, the title to this post is a bit misleading. I absolutely did not spend $31,000 to fly to Hanoi Vietnam this weekend. However, I did fly between the United States and Hanoi this past weekend and I did so entirely in premium cabins. Had I paid cash for this entire…
It’s hard believe January is well more than halfway over. I’ve been off to a slow start with blogging due to several significant life adjustments, but I hope to carve out time to write again in the near future. However, in the meantime I thought I should introduce my Cathay Pacific Premium Economy Mileage Run.…
As I wrap up another incredible year of flying I always enjoy looking back at where I’ve been in the past 12 months. Thankfully, American Airlines makes looking back easy by sending customers a year-end email. For the past two years American Airlines has sent AAdvantage members a Year In Review email which summarizes their…
