In the past, we have seen a good number of airlines offering discounts when redeeming miles for award flights, including: Singapore Airlines, Air France, Qatar Airways, etc. They will reduce the number of miles needed to redeem tickets on selected routes. However, American carriers rarely offer such deals. Now, American Airlines is having a discount for those redeeming tickets to or from Europe this summer.
The Deal
- Routes: US to/from Europe
- Time: Aug 1 – Aug 28 to Europe; Aug 1 – Sep 18 from Europe
- Class: Business Class AAnytime Award
- Cost: 85,000 miles one-way instead of 110,000
How to Find This Deal?
This deal can be easily found on aa.com using their own search tool. For example, if you are looking for a discounted award ticket for travel from Los Angeles to London, type in the departure city and the arrival city then select “One way” and “Redeem miles” next, select a date within the discount period and click the “Search” button.
That should lead you directly to the “Choose flights” page with all the available flights for award tickets. Choose those Business Class tickets with only 85K miles and book.
What is the Business Class Product Like?
American Airlines’ long-haul fleet flying to Europe includes Boeing 777, Boeing 787, and Airbus A330. For different seat products you can refer to Steven’s article and for service details you can refer to Sam’s video below.
Bottom Line
This is a great offer for those holding American Airlines miles and travelling to or from Europe. The cost after discount, 85K miles, is only 10K more compared to the cost of Premium Economy Class on the same flights.
Do you think 85K is more reasonable compared to the original 110K cost? If so, are you planning to take advantage of this deal?
Where and how can i find deals from UK to middle eastern countries or to USA
Whoaa insane deal for the summer! Is there an official landing page for the AA site regarding this deal? LOL probably only AA operated flights too.
Always like to pick up tickets on deals, and there are a lot of them for this summer. Travel must be down. AA website not working though. First on the old search it was only giving Saver, not Anytime awards. Then went to the new search and it won’t find anything, just errors out.
I’m unlikely to go for 85,000 though, since I recently got some from Delta for 64,000, from United for 70,000, from Virgin for 50,000, from AA for 57,500, etc.
While it’s always nice to see an “award sale” it would be nicer if AA released those unsold J seats at the normal Saver rate of 60K or so rather than giving us a “break” on their Anytime rate of 110K. Shows they’d rather see us redeem an additional 25K vs they’re not getting those same miles at the Saver rate.
What am I missing on this. AA business from US to Europe is usually 57.5 each way in business for saaver awards?