I haven’t checked up on how many miles I’ve accumulated in awhile so the result was a bit surprising for me. At the end of 2007 I had 27,397 miles sitting in my AAdvantage account.
Today I checked to discover that my year end total is 71,086 miles which means I earned 43,689 miles this year. I haven’t been keeping track of where I’ve been earning miles too well but I’m sure 95% of the miles earned are from credit card spending on my Citi AAdvantage card which nets me 1 mile per dollar spent. The rest were from flying, e-rewards (discontinued), opinion place, and
So what does 71k miles get me on American Airlines? According the awards chart if I fly off peak I have enough miles for myself and another person to fly something interesting (Hawaii, Central America, Columbia, Ecuador, etc.).
One of the question I ask myself is if it worth it to earn miles over cashback? Most of the purchases I charged to earn miles would have netted me 1% cashback. Therefore I would have netted $400 or so in cashback if I chose to go that route. I’m pretty sure I can get more than $400 of value out of the miles so I don’t regret getting the miles over the cashback.
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