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Today Only: Save 40% Off American Flights On Wednesdays
American has discounted domestic fares in all classes of service by 40% for travel on Wednesdays from now through 5/26. Tickets must be purchased today.
Bookable on Priceline with free refunds through tomorrow at 11:59pm or directly from American.
- Limited seats are available on each date.
- Always search one-way for 1 seat and then work the search up to the number of seats you need in order to book as many seats on sale as you can.
- Search NYC to include JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark for best results.
- Use a card like Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card, or Sapphire Reserve to earn 2-3 Chase points per dollar spent and get free trip cancellation/interruption insurance, travel accident insurance, luggage insurance, trip and luggage delay protection, and more!
- You can buy extra seats if you want to guarantee empty seats next to you by making the first name of the ticket EXTRASEAT with your last name. You’ll even get double your baggage allowance!
- Airlines are allowing free changes on all tickets, including basic economy tickets.
- AA now allows carry-ons on basic economy fares, but if you have a Citi AA Mastercard, Citi AA Executive card or Citi AA Business Card you can also get a free checked bag and have priority boarding.
- Disclaimer: The health of DansDeals readers is this website’s paramount concern. For your sake and the sake of those around you, consider staying at home while COVID-19 is still spreading or try booking for after you think COVID-19 will no longer be a threat. Remember to travel responsibly and take precautions as suggested by your local authorities to avoid spreading the virus.
Sample deals on most Wednesdays through 5/26:
- Baltimore to/from Miami: $30 main cabin, $193 first class.
- Chicago to/from Los Angeles: $30 basic economy, $41 main cabin, $200 lie-flat first class (777).
- Cleveland to/from Miami: $30 main cabin, $158 first class.
- JFK to/from Miami: $30 main cabin, $118 first class, $147 lie-flat first class (777).
- JFK to/from Los Angeles: $64 main cabin, $322 lie-flat business class (321T), $561 lie-flat first class (321T).
- Los Angeles to/from Miami: $30 basic economy, $40 main cabin, $269 lie-flat first class (777).
- Philadelphia to/from Los Angeles: $43 main cabin, $275 first class.
- Philadelphia to/from Miami: $30 main cabin, $36 main cabin, $182 lie-flat first class (787).
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Using Chase Points:
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel. If you have a Chase Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card® Card or Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card you can redeem points for 1.25 cents each towards travel.
You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here. The cost will be as low as 2,040 points with a Sapphire Reserve. That rate include all taxes and you will still earn flight miles as well!
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First class:
Using AMEX points:
- If you have an AMEX Business Platinum Card you can get a 35% rebate of points used.
- You can register for an airline here for coach travel. There is no need to register for business/first class travel.
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- You can register for an airline here for coach travel. There is no need to register for business/first class travel.
You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.
This is bookable for 3,060 points with AMEX. Plus you’ll get back a rebate of 1,071 points with the Business Platinum Card or 765 points with the Business Gold Card, dropping the total needed to as low as 1,989 points. That includes all taxes and you can still earn miles for flying!
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First class:
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20 Comments On "Today Only: Save 40% Off American Flights On Wednesdays: Transcontinental Flights From $30 In Coach, Lie-Flat First Class From $147"
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Why you posting this so late Dan?
Traveling, thanks for asking.
How dare you have a life
The health of Dan is m65’s paramount concern. For your sake and the sake of those around you, consider staying at home while COVID-19 is still spreading
Lol, alas i have BTDT with COVID already.
Dan, Does “You can buy extra seats if you want to guarantee empty seats next to you by making the first name of the ticket EXTRASEAT with your last name. You’ll even get double your baggage allowance!” work with other airlines?
Yes.
I paid for my mother’s ticket with my Citi AA Mastercard. Does that mean she will get free luggage or does it need to be in her name?
Her name.
As usual, nothing useful out of Houston. Also as usual, I appreciate it, Dan
Cruz?
EXTRASEAT does not seem to work on AA. Makes you enter a birthday and flags it if it’s the same birthday as the passenger. Also flags two extra seats as an error because of the identical first name. Any workaround?
EXTRASEAT is the first name
Entered EXTRASEAT as the first name but systems still flags as an error.
Change the birthday
You can change the birthday and get in one extra seat but if you order more than one it will error out due to a duplicate 1st name. Really backwards.
Does the extra seat cost extra? Or free?
Regular price
If it were free, I’ll take 8 free seats. 2 next to me, 3 behind me, 3 in front of me
safe travels, GURU