(EXPIRED) American Airlines Shopping Portal: Spend $100/$300 & Earn 500/1,000 Bonus Miles (Ends 03/14/22)

The Deal

• The American Airlines shopping portal is running the following two-tiered promotion:
  • Spend $100 & earn 500 bonus miles
  • Spend $300 & earn 1,000 bonus miles
• Direct link to offer.

Key Terms

• During the “Spring Forward Bonus” offer, which runs from 3/7/2022 through 3/14/2022 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will earn a one-time bonus of up to 1,000 AAdvantage miles on qualifying purchases, in addition to the standard AAdvantage miles earned from shopping online through the AAdvantage eShopping mall.
• This one-time bonus award will be determined based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period using one of the following tiers: Tier 1 bonus: 500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $100; or Tier 2 bonus: 1,000 miles for qualifying purchases of $300 or more.
• “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles.
• Please see the AAdvantage eShopping mall site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
• Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus miles to post to your AAdvantage eShopping account.
• The Tier 2 bonus provides the maximum number of miles that will be awarded.

Tips & Ideas

Spending $100 offers the best return on a per-dollar basis seeing as that’ll earn you 5x bonus miles per dollar versus 3.33x bonus miles when spending exactly $300. $300 isn’t a particularly high spending requirement though, so it won’t be hard for some people to hit that threshold.

Gift card purchases are listed as being excluded, but buying from Giftcards.com and Raise should track and thus will be eligible for this promotion. At the time of publishing this post, the American Airlines shopping portal is offering 3x for Giftcards.com purchases, so spending exactly $300 there will earn you 1,900 bonus miles.

Be aware that with the AA shopping portal you’ll only earn Loyalty Points based on your base earnings – the 500 or 1,000 bonus miles you earn from this spending promotion won’t earn an equivalent number of Loyalty Points.