American Airways AAdvantage members now have the choice to redeem their AAdvantage miles to buy onboard snacks and alcoholic drinks, with costs starting from 500 to 1,100 miles.
Although the airline provides complimentary tender drinks, espresso, tea, juice, water, Biscoff cookies and pretzels on flights over 250 miles, on longer flights through which extra choices can be found for buy, AAdvantage members can now redeem AAdvantage miles relatively than pay money.
Maintain studying for extra particulars on how one can redeem miles for inflight purchases.
Redeem AAdvantage miles for inflight drinks and snacks
This supply is accessible on American Airways mainline flights however not on flights operated by its regional subsidiary, American Eagle. Alcoholic drinks can be found for buy (with money or miles) on home flights over 250 miles, whereas snacks can be found on choose flights over 1,300 miles. Notice that on every flight, drink and snack choices might differ.
Potential beverage and snack choices embrace Cool Ranch Doritos Minis, a fruit and cheese plate, Goose IPA, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, Bud Gentle, and Tito’s vodka.
In the event that they’re planning to redeem miles for inflight meals, members should guarantee their AAdvantage quantity has been added to their reserving. For the buy-on-board service, members should present their boarding cross to the flight attendant (both a paper cross or a digital one on their private digital gadget). The flight attendant will then scan the boarding cross to deduct the miles from the AAdvantage member’s account.
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Every AAdvantage mile is price 1 cent when redeemed for buy-on-board gadgets. That is considerably decrease than TPG’s March 2025 valuation of AAdvantage miles of 1.65 cents every.
Choose AAdvantage cobranded bank card holders obtain a 25% low cost on inflight purchases when paying with an eligible card; nonetheless, this low cost will not be provided if you redeem miles to pay for snacks and drinks.
Backside line
Redeeming your American Airways AAdvantage miles for buy-on-board gadgets at 1 cent per mile every will not offer you as nice a redemption worth as a long-haul premium-cabin flight.
Nevertheless, if you happen to solely fly American often and have a small variety of miles you won’t in any other case use, it may very well be a great way to make use of them up earlier than they expire.
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