American Airlines changing how upgrade with Miles work. Unfortunately, depending on our first look, it seems to be a devaluation in most examples.
What is the same United announced a few weeks ago for his programAmerican Airlines Mileage Upgrade Award Chart is also going away.
Instead, it is being replaced with immediate upgradation, which is already available for several reservations, which you can buy when your journey program is given a ticket.
The American has been offering a cash upgrade offer for some time.
The Fort Worth-based airline told TPG, “Aadvantage members using miles no longer need to wait for whether the mileage upgrade they requested will be confirmed.”
Now, when you see the proposal, it will also cost in miles.
According to AA.com website, you will be able to use the award chart to upgrade, by 11 August. The award was a possible way to upgrade flights as 5,000 American Airlines Aadvantage Miles.
“With the launch of instant upgrade with Miles, new requests using the Mileage Upgrade Award Chart will no longer be accepted from midnight from August 12, 2025,” said the American.
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While it is good to be able to upgrade immediately using miles, we are looking at the value of about one percent per mile … similar to the price you will get to buy the upgrade on delta air lines With Delta SkymilesOur calculation suggests that delta upgrades typically sell for about 1.07 cents per mile.
On that upcoming flight to Chicago, I can upgrade my journey to $ 291 or 27,100 Aadvantage Miles, which is not a great return to American Aadvantage Miles.
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New upgradation proposal on flight to Chicago. Aa.com
Nick Even of TPG received an upgrade offer of $ 76 or 7,100 miles on the upcoming flight. Again, a great value has not been given per redeemed mile that TPG considers the American mile as 1.5 cents. June 2025 evaluation,
Good news is that these changes do not affect Systemwide upgrade awardsYou will still be able to use a systemwide upgrade to change a payment fare for the next class of one-way service (or two classes on some journey programs) for three sections.
Ground level
For those who want to squeeze the maximum value from their aadvantage miles to go to better seats, it is going to be a hard pill to swallow.
This is particularly painful if you are used to use your American miles for relatively cheap mileage upgrade on international flights. Personally, I am capable of using 25,000 AA miles and 25,000 AA miles and $ 350 cache-pay to upgrade to Europe, which will not be possible after August 11.
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