Last week, American Airlines and Hyatt launched a new joint cross-promotion. Under the new program, once members link their AA and World of Hyatt accounts: AAdvantage elite members will earn 1 AAdvantage bonus mile for every eligible dollar spent on…
Several weeks ago, AAdvantage and World of Hyatt announced a cross-program partnership that would include bonus points-earning across the two programs for elite members and other promotional benefits. Given that we hold elite status with both AA and Hyatt, we…
Quick reminder here – today is the last day to make AA award redemptions and receive the 10% mileage refund that has been available on several AA co-branded credit cards. As you probably know, the following cards have had the…
Introduction Middle Age Miles has had an ongoing issue with AAdvantage eShopping and Marriott that is now finally resolved – we’re happy to report that we finally received our missing 6,511 AA miles for booking a Marriott stay through the…
Middle Age Miles spend the better part of the last week and a half traveling to Italy, so one of the first things we wanted to do upon our return was summarize some of the most important credit card, travel…
We received emails from the American Airlines AAdvantage Program today officially announcing changes to the AA co-branded credit cards issued by Citi and Barclays. The changes are almost uniformly negative for us – valuable benefits have been removed, and new…
Last Friday, we reported on an issue with miles from AAdvantage eShopping not posting to our AAdvantage account. We’ve included the full text of last week’s article for context. We promised we’d update you when we got more information. The…
On January 14, we tweeted about a one-day AAdvantage eShopping promotion to earn extra miles on Marriott stays. If you clicked through from AAdvantage eShopping to Marriott on that day and made a booking, you’d earn a fantastic 10 AA…
This article is Part 5 in our 5-part series on Middle Age Miles about earning and enjoying elite status on American Airlines, and Executive Platinum status in particular. Our 5 articles are:* Part 1: Lessons and Strategies from My 2018 Journey to…
This article is Part 4 in what’s now a 5-part series we’re running on Middle Age Miles about earning and enjoying elite status on American Airlines, and Executive Platinum status in particular. Our 5 articles are:* Part 1: Lessons and Strategies from…