Miles Expiring? Pick Up A Magazine Or Newspaper Subscription!

A Question for Dan (or anyone else that may know)

We are a whole family flying to Australia with Cathay Pacific.
What is the best thing to do with the miles?
Put them on an AA advantage account?
Open a Cathay Pacific account?
Is there a way to post all the miles onto 1 account?

Anything for expiring BA miles?

Anyone offering the Forbes for points? I now a while back they were offering but I can’t find it anywhere.

Do AA miles have an expiration date?

great post… perfect timing

Jetblue let’s you buy magazine subscriptions with trueblue points. I had a couple of the old points that were expiring so I got some magazines

@Eli:
The best thing is probably to post the miles to everyone’s AA account.
But to answer that definitely I need to know the fare class code from the Cathay Pacific ticket. That’s a single letter (or the first letter) that describes every fare purchased.

@Leo:
The magazine selection changes often. Just keep checking back every so often.

@adamSmiles:
You need to have activity every 18 months.

any idea why/when the FT subscription goes in and out of availability at AA?

@Dan/Ctownbochur:

how does AA define “activity”? Are there any other methods of using less miles to keep an account active? (ie miles transfer?) thanks

@adamSmiles:
I believe gain or use of miles is activity for AA.
A mileage transfer from one person to another would qualify, but it would cost at least $80 to transfer the minimum of 1,000 miles.
I think you’d be far better off redeeming 400 miles (or 300 miles+$2) for a magazine subscription!

Now if you mean a transfer of miles from Starwood to AA, that would count as well and is a fine method to extend the life of both your Starwood account and AA account.

@Dan/Ctownbochur:

Thanks. Does AA send out reminders when miles are coming dues soon?

Anything for starwood points?

united also offers to donate miles

To adamSmiles:
I just got an email from aa saying my miles expire on april 12, so they do give a 6 month notice, at the very least

Time 53 issues is probably not 300 miles…

@gershon:
You can donate 500 Starpoints.
Or you should be able to book a room with starpoints and then cancel it to extend the points…

@Eli W:
Right, it’s 300 miles and $2 as the AA site says it is.

Daniel, thanks for this

how about spirit miles i have 56k expiring now ?

I just ordered time (for $2 and 300 miles) will that make my account active?
otherwise I have two months to use 17.000 miles.

@MosheCR:
Yup, that will do it!

Any way to keep AirTran Miles from expiring? I don’t think the miles will switch to Southwest.

I just got an offer in the mail from www. magsformiles.com to use my continental miles for magazines. They had the biggest selection from all with more than 40 titles including Forbes which I was looking for!!!

@Zvi:
Only by paying them to extend them. They will eventually become Southwest credits.

@Leo:
Note that Continental miles don’t actually expire, although miles for magazines can still be a good use.

@ Dan
The Cathay Pacific flights are from London to Melbourne.
The way there is V.
The return is class H.
Only one of the people flying has miles with AA.

What recourse is there if you don’t receive your magazine/newspaper? I took advantage of the WSJ deal, abut I have only received 1 copy so far!

Can AA miles be transferred into another points program that does allow selling them? If yes, what is the best (most lucrative after taking into accopunt the fees) way to do it?

Who buys AA miles?