aadvantage Award Tickets: Buy and Book American Airlines Flight Tickets with Miles

American Airlines’ AAdvantage program rewards passengers traveling on American airline flights with the ability to add miles each time they fly with that airline and redeem them for tickets to travel the world for free, called award tickets.

Miles are added both for purchasing tickets on American Airlines and on any Oneworld alliance airline, or with associated service companies and credit cards joining the program. This way, with this loyalty program, when you have enough miles, you can redeem them for award tickets.

The existence of award ticket availability will be indicated when requesting the itinerary and, if it exists, it will be confirmed when the ticket is issued. There are hundreds of thousands of seats per year in all classes of travel, which you can reserve with your miles points, distributed on all flights and routes determined by American Airlines during the duration of the program.

To redeem points for award tickets, availability and quota extension for mileage redemption tickets vary by route, season, class, cabin capacity and expectations in terms of load factor. It must therefore be taken into account that the price quotas are limited.

If you decide not to use the award ticket, you can choose to return the ticket, which will involve both the full refund of miles and the amount paid in due time for fees and taxes. If you have paid issue fees, this amount will not be refunded.

Buying an award ticket: Booking procedures and procedures

Go to the booking page and select “Book Awards” under My Account. Enter your travel dates, the airport of departure and arrival, the period of stay indicating the date of outward and return flight, and do not forget to mention the number of passengers traveling with you under the same reservation.

Before starting the search for award ticket offers available for booking, select the travel class (Economy, Business or First).

How many miles does your American Airlines award ticket cost you?

At American Airlines, there are two types of award tickets: There are those that are reserved with MileSAaver points and others that are reserved with AAnytime miles:

– Exchange MileSAaver rewards points for award tickets

These are points that you can use to book a travel itinerary offered by American Airlines, knowing that the number of points to be used on a single reservation is capped at 7,500 miles.

– Use AAnytime Miles

You can run up to 20,000 miles on a single trip. This can be suitable for traveling on medium and long haul flights whether with American Airlines or American Eagle.

You can also call customer service if you would like more information on the number of points required for each reward level.

– Book award tickets with the special web offer

Through which you can book air tickets online only. The number of miles required for free flight tickets is reduced. Award tickets cannot be modified but are refundable if you cancel them before departure.

Discover on this table the scale of points required to have award tickets and fly to any destination in the American Airlines network.

Cancellation of award tickets: does American Airlines accept refunds?

The US carrier gives you up to a year to use your award ticket, and if you can’t do it, you can cancel it (before departure) and get your miles back. Taxes and booking fees are also refundable.

Expiry date of an American Airlines award ticket

After one year without using the reward ticket (from the date of reservation), it expires and can no longer be used by the passenger.