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Luckily, you can keep your miles alive--even if you don't fly. For example, you can redeem some of your miles to buy magazines or other products by shopping at aadvantageshopping.com. This spending counts as "activity," keeping the rest of your miles alive for another 18 months. One cheap option is to buy a bag of Starbucks coffee beans from--of all places--Sears.com, for $11.
Budget Travel recently published an online chart of the best options for saving miles on American and seven other major airlines--Continental, Delta, JetBlue, Northwest, Southwest, United, and US Airways. Click here to see the online version of the chart. Correction: In the chart that accompanied this blog post and the article in the magazine, we erroneously said that a participant in American Airlines' reward program could keep their account active by buying a gift card from partner Starbucks. Instead, you need to buy a bag of coffee via Starbuck's retail website StarbucksStore.com. Thanks to reader R. Giovinazzo for noticing the error.
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Your end of your article includes a link to a chart. The first part of the chart is incorrect. It says "Out Pick Gift card from partner Starbucks ($15)." Starbucks is not a partner. You cannot earn a bonus for purchasing a gift card from Starbucks. The partner is Starbucksstore.com which does not sell gift cards. I informed you of this when the article first came out, and you are now reprinting the same error.
Posted By R Giovinazzo on June 5, 2007, 12:00 PM
When clicking on link to aadvantageshopping.com, it says page expired, impossible to redeem.
Posted By Pirkko on May 11, 2008, 12:18 PM
Hello, Pirkko,
Try this link:
http://www.aa.com/apps/AAdvantage/RedeemMiles.jhtml?anchorEvent=false
In the year since we posted that comment, the link changed. I regret the inconvenience to you.
--Sean
Posted By Blog Editor on May 12, 2008, 6:23 PM