American Airlines is running a stellar award sale right now, offering massive savings on flights from Australia and Asia to Aruba and Amarillo this winter.
The airline is offering big discounts on AAdvantage award flights, but only through Thursday, Nov. 11 at midnight Central Time. The promo fares are for flights between Jan. 11 and Feb. 27.
Best of all: The cheapest American AAdvantage bookings are Main Cabin tickets, meaning you get perks like seat selection and a free checked bag when you’re flying long-haul, but most importantly, these Main Cabin award tickets are 100% refundable, including the taxes and fees!
Sales for AAdvantage flights like this don’t come around very often. Usually, we’ll see two, maybe three, AAdvantage sales per year, but something of this scope we’ve never seen before. It includes routes crossing both oceans, into South America, and even domestic and Caribbean flights, all at incredibly cheap miles rates!
Unlike some airline sales, this one actually packs a big punch. I will show examples below of the best fares we’ve rounded up and synthesized for our Thrifty Traveler Premium members, which includes Japan, China, Australia, and New Zealand for 50,000 miles roundtrip and flights to Brazil from 36,000 roundtrip. Plus, if you look closer to home at domestic flights or flights to the Caribbean, you can find fares for 7,500 or 8,000 each way!
Here’s a look at the AA sale page right now, which lets you filter by region and departure city if you’d like. These samples of the lowest rates show some tantalizing opportunities!
Plus, you can find promo fares to Europe and India at solid rates in Main Cabin. too.
As is the case with some airline sales, however, they almost always underplay their best stuff. Luckily, your friendly neighborhood flight deal analysts are keen to do the dirty work to find exactly how expansive some of their sales are.
For example, we found a few sizzling 50,000-mile fares to Australia and New Zealand, including Auckland (AKL), Brisbane (BNE), and Sydney (SYD) this winter … but we didn’t realize until we searched for flights from more than 220 U.S. and Canadian airports that you could book it from just about anywhere for that rate!
Here’s a screenshot from a Thrifty Traveler Premium alert we sent to our members yesterday. It flagged the AA sale before we even got an email from American about it. (Finding the airline’s sales before the airlines’ marketing teams do is a point of pride for us!)
In all, we found bookable 50,000-mile rates from 173 airports that we included in this deal, including my home airport of Minneapolis (MSP).
You can find rates similar to those in Japan and China, too. Take this nonstop flight from New York (JFK) to Tokyo (HND) – a route that will cost you more than $1,000 in cash to book in Basic Economy. Instead, you can pay 50,000 miles and $126 for Main Cabin!
There are dozens and dozens more cities you can book for the same rate, and Shanghai (PVG) flights are pricing out at the same rate from dozens of cities, too.
But you don’t have to cross the Pacific to get a stellar deal on this sale. In fact, one of the best values might be flying all the way down to Brazil – Sao Paolo (GRU), to be specific.
And like the other deals, you can find this rate and some other similar ones from airports all over the country!
Bottom Line
If you have American miles, you won’t find a better sale than this! But don’t wait, this sale ends at midnight Central on Thursday, Nov. 11!
Book flights to Asia, Australia, South America, Europe, the Caribbean, and even domestically with massive discounts for travel this winter.
