Neopolitan

AA is currently doing a 25th Anniversary of their FF program and each day they offer some sort of special. Today's was with Avis. For each 3 day or longer (and over Saturday night) rental of an intermediate car or larger between now and the end of the year, you not only get the usual 50 miles per day, but on each rental you get 250 miles bonus for EACH YEAR you have been a member of their Aadvantage program. This offer additionally offers a special discount on rentals. I just checked on my two California rentals planned late this summer and the prices now match my lowest I could find before. Reservations for this bonus must be made before the end of May, but any reservations are not prepaid and can be cancelled. But the best part is, since I've been a member since 1984 I'll be getting 11,000 bonus miles on the two car rentals.

I suggest all Aadvantage members check out their daily specials.

g33kgrl

Better check the fine print again--I believe the maximum bonus is something like 6250.

jody

I hope this is good for international rentals..We'll need a car in France for 9 days and we are original members of AA FF ..my DH worked for citibank at the inception!

g33kgrl

Nope--contiguous U.S. (so not even Hawaii), Canada, Latin America, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Neopolitan

g33kgrl, I've read the fine print several times. It reads to me like that maximum is "per rental", which makes sense because 6250 is 250 times 25, the maximum number of years you could have been a member. If you can only earn the bonus on one rental, it sure doesn't indicate that anywhere. The 11,000 miles I was talking about are from a total of two rentals. You could be right, but it sure doesn't sound like it. Usually if you can only earn a bonus once, it will say so.

g33kgrl

Sorry, Neopolitan, but I have to disagree with you. The &quot;headline&quot; on the promo page clearly says &quot;Celebrate And Earn <b>Up To 6,250</b> Bonus Miles From Avis.&quot; Up to. Period. Not &quot;up to 6250 an umlimited number of times.&quot; When promos say &quot;up to,&quot; that's generally the maximum, period.

Neopolitan

OK, you're probably right. So does that mean they'll give me 5500 for one rental and cut the other one off at 750?

I was really thrown by this comment, &quot;Earn 250 bonus miles for every year you've been an AAdvantage member on your qualifying rentals of 3 or more days including a Saturday night.&quot;

Since that was plural (rentals). . .

g33kgrl

Good point. I don't think anyone is completely sure how this is going to work, including Avis and AA. I would hope you could repeat to get the max. number of miles, but who knows?

Betsy

Is there a link to their daily specials?

Neopolitan

I think this link should work. You may have to be logged in to the AA.com website?

http://www.aadvantage25.com/home.php

Betsy

Thanks, P. I'll dig out my AAdvantange number and look around.

Sue4

Neopolitan, thanks for bringing this up.
It's fun to look up, and the AVIS deal is great. I also like the sweepstakes!

Betsy

Here's today's offer. Looks like a good one! From

http://www.aadvantage25.com/home.phpoid=1016

&quot;Earn DOUBLE miles for travel on all American Airlines, American Eagle&reg; carriers or AmericanConnection&reg; carriers. To qualify, book on AA.com by May 31 and travel by November 15, 2006. Simply register on AA.com using promotion code DBL06 prior to travel and before May 31, 2006. It's just another way of saying thank you for being a valuable AAdvantage&reg; member!&quot;

Neopolitan

That last offer is the kind I hate. I have four AA flights booked within that time frame, but of course, they were all booked before that announcement. A lot of good that will do me now. The most frustrating part is that two of them were just booked last week! If only I had known.

Betsy

I was thinking about you, P, when I posted today's deal. Sorry you couldn't take advantage of it. I'm surprised you booked flights using $$ and not miles!

Neopolitan

I never use miles to book flights within the states. Why would I use miles for flights that only cost a hundred dollars or so, or even $300, when I can save my miles and use them for those $7000 plus business class tickets to Europe?
Incidentally the most recent flights I booked were SFO to Las Vegas and Las Vegas to Los Angeles, so there weren't a lot of miles involved to double -- still. . .

Gardyloo

Do the math and decide if the miles are worth the re-booking fees (i.e. cancel and re-book.) We have major European trips already bought but I'm looking at it. (Downside is that we have all going and coming flights upgraded and there's no guarantee we'd still be able to use the eVips.) Still, tempting...

Betsy

But, but...you didn't <i>say</i> you'd booked domestic flights, P! I wouldn't do that either. We save our for first class trips to Europe.