Cobranded American Airlines credit cards allow you to earn American miles and Loyalty Points if you make purchases together with your card. However on Wednesday, Dec. 6, I bought an e-mail from the American Airlines AAdvantage program titled “Reaching AAdvantage® standing together with your bank card.” The spotlight of the e-mail is displayed underneath the “What has modified?” heading:
The Loyalty Factors you earn on AAdvantage® bank card* purchases between March 1 and the tip of February of the next yr depend towards the present standing qualification yr. This implies you’ll be able to earn Loyalty Factors via February 29, 2024, as a substitute of your final assertion shut date of the qualification yr.
The asterisk within the above assertion from the e-mail notes that “For AAdvantage® bank cards issued exterior of the U.S., Loyalty Level earn will proceed to depend based mostly on the date the exercise posts to the first cardmember’s AAdvantage® account.” So, this information is barely related for American Airways loyalists with bank cards issued within the U.S.
American Airways bank card elite standing modifications
Loyalty Points from AAdvantage credit card spending will now depend towards standing based mostly on the date of your buy as a substitute of the date your bank card assertion closes. Due to this fact, purchases that put up to your AAdvantage bank card account by Feb. 29, 2024, will depend towards the 2024 qualification yr. The 2024 qualification yr runs from March 1, 2023, to Feb. 29, 2024, and AAdvantage standing earned in the course of the 2024 qualification yr will run via March 31, 2025.
Nevertheless, AAdvantage says it could take as much as 10 weeks after your bank card assertion closes for miles and Loyalty Factors to put up to your AAdvantage account. So, the Loyalty Factors steadiness you see on Feb. 29, 2024, could not embrace all of the Loyalty Factors you will earn for the 2024 qualification yr.
On March 1, your 2025 qualification yr will start, and your Loyalty Level steadiness will reset to zero. Nevertheless, your Loyalty Level steadiness on your 2024 qualification yr — which you possible will not be capable to see in your AAdvantage account after the tip of February — should still develop as miles and Loyalty factors from bank card purchases on or earlier than Feb. 29, 2024, put up to your AAdvantage account.
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That is excellent news for AAdvantage cardholders who need all their purchases in February to depend towards their 2024 American Airlines elite status qualification yr. Nevertheless, this information additionally means you might wish to delay huge purchases with AAdvantage bank cards till March 1 or later (as a substitute of ready till your February bank card assertion closes) when you do not want extra Loyalty Factors for the 2024 qualification yr.
I will nonetheless do any bank card spending for the ultimate Loyalty Factors I will want for AAdvantage Platinum Professional standing — requalifying for AAdvantage Executive Platinum status is not necessary for me anymore — in January. In spite of everything, I will really feel extra assured if my Loyalty Level steadiness on Feb. 29, 2024, exhibits 125,000 Loyalty Factors or greater. Nonetheless, this American Airways bank card elite standing change could actually assist customers who want extra time to spend on AAdvantage playing cards for the 2024 qualification yr.
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