Travel with American Airline

March 22nd, 2006

Now that I have to travel to Boston area in the recent month, I have to abandon my old plan to count on Southwest Airline rapid awards to get award ticket - American Airline (AA) has direct flight from RDU to Boston, which really saved me a lot of time that I’d otherwise have to waste on my transfer at BWI (no Southwest direct flight from RDU to BOS).

As far as the advantage, here is what I think..

• Actually since I am also AA gold member, (also Silver Elite@NWA and Silver Elite@Delta), I also get quite a good bonus milage out of each trip, within just a month, I have close to 7000 miles on my account. When one reach 10K, AA will award 4 e-upgrade, which is worth another 10K miles.
• AA milage program can be used for international travel, remember a ticket to China will cost 50K miles, with 10K mile that I’ll have, all of sudden I am 20% closer to a free ticket… not bad at all!
• It is foolish to automatically assume the travel with Southwest is the lest expensive, if you do a search, sometimes I think AA fare wasn’t bad at all, e.g. a round trip from RDU to LGA is only $200 on AA..

If you are serious about AA, you prob should read this as well: Unofficial travel guide with AA

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