Category Archives: American Airlines

Purchase an AA Admiral’s Club One Day Pass For $30

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For a limited time American Airlines is selling a one day pass to their Admiral’s Club Lounges for 40% off. A one day pass is usually $50 but are on sale for $30!
Some more info:
  • To visit the Admiral’s Club you must hold a same-day ticket for airline travel that allows for clearance through security for flight departure and access to the club location
  • Eligible for purchase and use by any AA customer 18 or older
  • $30 pass is valid for one day. If you are traveling through multiple cities with lounges, you may use the same pass to get access to each lounge.
  • One day pass is good for 365 days from date of purchase
  • Up to 3 children under the age of 18 may be admitted at no additional charge
  • Purchaser does not have to be visitor- it can be purchased as a gift
The discounted day pass must be purchased by May 16 2012 at 12:00PM Central Time
Find out more and buy your pass HERE 
 

American Airlines 10% Off Codes Giveaway- Two Available

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I have two American Airlines 10% off codes (good for up to 6 people) to give away. 
I totally forgot that I had the codes, but a post by Million Mile Secrets reminded me that they were expiring soon and I could not make use of them.
The codes each have different book by & travel by dates:
  • Code 1: Book by 5/4/12, Travel by 5/11/12
  • Code 2: Book by 5/15/12, Travel by 5/21/12
Terms: 
  • Codes good for round trip flight (no open jaw) booked on AA.com
  • Good for travel to/ from any airports
  • Good for one time use per code
Leave a comment (with your e-mail) to enter my give away
Contest Ends 4/30/12
 

American Way: 100,000 Miles For Your Thoughts Drawing

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When flying American Airlines I always check out the inflight magazine American Way.

A few pages in there is a section called Air Mail where some letters and e-mails sent in get published & responded to.

I noticed on my flight to Barbados that this month’s issue has a drawing where you can win 100,000 AAdvantage miles.

To enter you need to send a letter to the editor of American Way. If your letter gets published in a 2012 issue you will be entered into the drawing.

To enter:
E-Mail your thoughts to editor@americanway.com

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AAdvantage Tips Tab on Facebook & Win 5,000 AA Miles

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American Airlines AAdvantage has added a new feature to it’s Facebook page.
They added a Tips Tab where members can share their AAdvantage advice.

Some tips added so far:

  • “You can put an award ticket on hold for free, for up to 5 days… if you’re indecisive like me “
  • “Just registered the husband’s credit card for the Dining program. He takes clients to dinner, and I get the miles!”
  • “Mom turned 80, so I surprised her with her favorite, lilies. Performed an elusive double dip- used FTD (ftd.com/aadv) AND put it on my credit card to earn miles from both!”
  • “Just stumbled upon aa.com/hotspots- now I know where I can go with fewer miles!”
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Some of these tips can be useful but the best part of this new tips tab is the contest:an put an award  
By submitting a tip you will be entered for a chance to win 5,000 AAdvantage miles. 
  • Contest ends May 1
  • Open to legal residents of 50 US States, DC and Puerto Rico
  • Must be 18 or older at time of entry
  • Around 5/23 they will pick their 10 favorite tips to win.
  • 10 prizes of 5,000 AAdvantage miles (approximate value $99.50) 

 Check out the Facebook AAdvantage Tips Tab Here

    Welcome airberlin To OneWorld & Earn Double AADvantage Miles

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    Last night I saw this promo on Facebook:

    To welcome airberlin to the Oneworld Alliance, American Airlines is offering double AAdvantage miles on eligible flights with airberlin from March 20- May 15.
    You must register for this promo prior to traveling.
    Register for the promo here
    airberlin is Germany’s second largest airline and oneworld’s 11th member.
    Oneworld members are
    1. airberlin
    2. American Airlines
    3. British Airways
    4. Cathay Pacific
    5. Finnair
    6. Iberia
    7. Japan Airlines
    8. Lan
    9. Qantas
    10. Royal Jordanian
    11. S7 Airlines 
    To read the full AA welcome message to airberlin click here

      No More Comments (For Now) from American Airlines & Award Wallet

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      After posting Award Wallet Responds To My Posts About The American Airlines Situation to the blog, I sent e-mails to

      1. The PR Rep for AA (that had contacted me initially) to see what his thoughts were on Award Wallet’s comments in the post.
      2. The Award Wallet President letting him know about my post (that included the comments he had e-mailed me regarding AA) and asked him a bunch of questions…

      This is my e-mail sent to PR for American:

      Hi Alan,
      Just wanted to let you know that the President of Award Wallet sent me an e-mail and the Co-Founder & CTO responded to my post that included AA’s response to why the extension could be not used.
      I made another post to my blog with both of their comments…
      You can check the post out here.
      If you get to check out the post, I’d love to know what your thoughts are on what AW had to say.
      Thanks,
      Michael W.

       The response was:

      Hi Michael,
      Thanks for sending this. I appreciate you sharing the thoughts from AW. However, what I provided earlier is all we can say at this time.
      Best,
      Alan
      This is my e-mail sent back to the President of AW:

      Hey Jeff,
      Thanks for writing to me. I made a post to my blog with the e-mail you sent me and a comment left on one of my posts by Alexi V.
      I had a couple of questions for you.
      1- Why do you think AA is so against being tracked on Award Wallet?
      2- Has AA tried to charge Award Wallet a fee to be allowed the rights to be tracked?
      3- Has AA tried to help or asked AW to do something to comply with their “rigorous security requirements”?
      4- Is Award Wallet being considered as one of the mileage tracking sites that will qualify to track AA? I am assuming no…
      Sincerely,
      Michael W.
      The response was:
                Hi Michael,
      Unfortunately, I can’t address your (perfectly reasonable) other questions at this point but I hope to be able to do so within a couple of weeks.
      Jeff Bianco
      President Award Wallet
      I was hoping to get some more answers but it is definitely understandable that both sides can not comment any further for now.

      Award Wallet Responds To My Posts About The American Airlines Situation

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      Last Friday I wrote about AA forcing Award Wallet to discontinue the browser extension. This has made a lot of people annoyed and upset at American Airlines. Many feel that AA is not playing fairly with a small company and has other issues to worry about while in bankruptcy.

      A couple of hours after publishing the above post, I received an e-mail from AA regarding Award Wallet which you can read here. American Airlines is saying that security is the issue with our miles being tracked on AW.

      The weekend passed and there wasn’t much else to report regarding AA and Award Wallet until today.

      I was checking e-mail from my phone and had a message from the President of AwardWallet, Jeff Bianco regarding the response I received from AA. A few hours later, I also had a comment on my AA Response post from Alexi Vereschaga, Co-Founder & CTO of AwardWallet.

      Here is what they had to say: 
      E-Mail from Jeff Bianco, President of AwardWallet:

      American Airlines response to you is missing the point.

      AwardWallet’s browser extension allows you the user,to store your username and password on your own computer.  It was never transmitted to AwardWallet.  Your computer accesses the AA.com site and stores the resulting balance information locally on your computer.  It is then displayed within the context of AwardWallet but the information was not transmitted to our site or our servers. 

      Their response to you makes no sense in regard to AwardWallet.  It may make sense in regard to other mileage tracking sitesbut not in regard to what we were doing.

      Comment to my AA response post from Alexi Vereschaga,Co-Founder & CTO of AW  

      Hi, this is Alexi from AwardWallet. I just wanted to point out one important thing – AwardWallet (a third party website) is not accessing aa.com and is not storing any data related to AA in our database. With the browser extension it is the user who is accessing their site via their own browser and all the data is stored in that browser so it never reaches our server at any point.

      Based on what AwardWallet is saying, it does seem like American’s talk of security being an issue makes little sense. I do want to believe the reasoning AA has given me but if all of the data is being stored locally on our own computers how can this be?
      If AwardWallet does not have any of our information transmitted to their servers, then how is security really an issue?

      I am going to send the Award Wallet responses to the PR rep for American Airlines. Hopefully he will get back to me.
      I also plan to e-mail the president of Award Wallet to see why he thinks American is so against being tracked on their site.

      I Received A Response from AA Regarding Award Wallet

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      I wrote a post about AA Forces Award Wallet to Discontinue Extension earlier today.

      A couple of hours ago I received an e-mail from Alan Phillips of Weber Shandwick, the PR firm for American Airlines.
      Mr. Phillips wrote to me responding to my post regarding AA and the Award Wallet extension.

      I did not expect to get a response from AA regarding Award Wallet when I made my post but am really glad that I did. I’d say that pretty much everyone is taking sides with Award Wallet so why not hear AA’s thoughts on this matter. It’s always nice to hear both sides to a story!

      Here is the e-mail:
      Hello Michael,


      I saw this post “http://michaelwtravels.blogspot.com/2012/02/aa-forces-award-wallet-to-discontinue.html” from you regarding American Airlines.

      I want to provide you with American’s perspective on this topic. This is attributable to American Airlines or an American Airlines spokesperson.
      ·         Upholding its long-held stance on how third-party websites access proprietary AAdvantage member details is just one of the ways American protects the benefits afforded through the AAdvantage program.
      ·         Because travelers’ AAdvantage account numbers and passwords can be used to claim AAdvantage mileage awards out of their accounts and access personal details, American will always protect this information.
      ·         Security is chief among our points of consideration when we make decisions regarding the sharing of our customers’ data with third-party websites
      ·         We simply cannot permit websites that have not satisfied our security requirements the access needed to track AAdvantage balances or any other function that is otherwise secured behind AA.com login credentials.
      ·         Consistent with these principles, it is worth noting that Points.com, an AAdvantage participant, allows many of the same types of services as other mileage tracker websites – but has fully satisfied our rigorous security requirements.
      ·         We are also in the process of qualifying a number of other mileage tracker websites.
      Best,
      Alan

      Mr. Phillips is making a case for AA using protection and security as the reasons why Award Wallet can not be allowed to track our AAdvantage accounts.
      If this is a real concern and issue then I am fine with AA’s stance regarding this. My AA miles are definitely valuable and pretty much as good as money to me. I just wonder why other airlines are not concerned about the security of our accounts. Why is United,Delta & US Airways (among others) still being tracked on Award Wallet? Are their sites more secure than AA?

      I sent a couple of questions back to Mr. Phillips and am waiting for a response.
      I’d like to know what other mileage tracking sites are in the process of being qualified by AA?
      I would also like to know if making money from tracking sites is an issue? If Award Wallet was able to pay a fee, would they be allowed to track our accounts?

      AA Forces Award Wallet to Discontinue Extension

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      American Airlines has once again put a stop to allowing people to track their mileage balances on Award Wallet.


      When AA sued Award Wallet (I believe they threatened to sue) last year they came up with a browser extension as a solution. AA felt that Award Wallet was collecting customer’s mileage data. The extension seemed to solve this issue by storing data locally on your computer.

      The extension will be discontinued on 2/25/12.

      Here is the post about this from Award Wallet:
      “We regret to inform you that we will be discontinuing support for the AwardWallet browser extension on February 25, 2012. This means that you will no longer be able to track your American Airlines related information (balance, status, etc.) on AwardWallet.com.

 We have been forced to take this action by American Airlines’ stance toward AwardWallet. We created the browser extension in order to address American Airlines’ concern that AwardWallet was collecting customers’ mileage data. We believe the extension addressed this concern because it simply collected your mileage data and stored it locally on your computer. American Airlines, however, objects to the extension. It’s position appears to be that AwardWallet is prohibited from providing any software tool that facilitates the ability to track the customer’s American Airlines’ mileage information. We think this is unfortunate.

      Please make a note of your AAdvantage number and password as you will not be able to see it on AwardWallet.com after we make this change. Thank you for your continued support of AwardWallet.com!”

      Award Wallet posted the info regarding the AA Extension here