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Some Positive AA News: 30,000 AA Miles Round Trip Flights to Hawaii (5,000 Mile Savings)

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Some Positive AA News: 30,000 AA Miles Round Trip Flights to Hawaii (5,000 Mile Savings)

I’m trying to look on the bright side of all the negative AA-related news from this morning. This might cheer some of you guys up. In AA’s daily email deals, was an offer for $483 round trip flights to Hawaii, but that didn’t catch my attention. What did was the sentence at the bottom that mentioned 15,000 AA miles each way to Hawaii for a limited time only.

The link brings you to this page with all the details. You must purchase your award ticket between now and September 13 and travel between September 11 and December 17 to receive the discount award rate. Continue reading →

A friend asks: How many miles will you fly this year?

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A friend asks: How many miles will you fly this year?

He wanted to know if I flew more than 100,000 miles, but I told him it was probably less than 10,000 miles for the year. After he left, I started thinking more and though it was around 25,000 miles flown. I kept thinking of trips I took earlier this year and trips that were coming up and wanted to get an exact number.

I wrote down all my flight segments and went on Great Circle Mapper to find the actual distances. I’ve gone on quite a few trips this year and have plenty more flying through the rest of this year. All my travel is personal, paid with miles or cash.

I added up all the numbers and this is what I got… 44,624 flown miles, wow! That might be my best year ever!

Air France	670
WestJet	1,081
LAN	1,455
United	4,841
Southwest	5,222
Alaska	6,337
American	12,503
US Airways	12,515
TOTAL:	44,624

As you can tell, I’m literally “all over the map” (pun intended) with my airlines and don’t fly any airline exclusively. How many miles will you have flown by the end of the year? Let me know in the comments below.

Using British Airways Avios on Partners Air Berlin and Niki

Using British Airways Avios on Partners Air Berlin and Niki

Point Me To The Plane wrote an interesting article about Avios Awards on Hidden Partners – Trip Report Monarch Airlines London – Mallorca today (August 15) that highlighted some of the lesser known Avios partners. That reminded me that I booked a few flights for January 2014 on Air Berlin’s partner airline Niki. According to Wikipedia, “NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH, also known as flyNiki is a scheduled semi-lowcost airline and a subsidiary of Air Berlin.”

To use British Airways Avios on Niki flights, just search BA.com as you normally would on the routes that Niki flies (complete list provided at the bottom of this post).

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