Delta just started service between New York LaGuardia and several airports, including Dallas-Ft. Worth, so I’m sure that’s the reason for this new promotion from American Airlines:

Airline: American Airlines

Award: Double Elite-Status Qualifying Miles

Bonus Code:  DFLGA

Dates: Book your trip and fly between March 26, 2012, and June 30, 2012

Offer: Exclusive offer for select AAdvantage members. Reach AAdvantage elite status faster than ever with this offer! Just book a round-trip ticket and fly on American Airlines between Dallas/Fort Worth and New York/LaGuardia from March 26, 2012, through June 30, 2012. You’ll earn double elite-qualifying miles, the miles that bring you closer to AAdvantage elite status membership – at an accelerated rate.

Definitely Probably

The terms and conditions very clearly state that this is a targeted offer:

Note: This offer is valid only for AAdvantage members who receive this email directly from American Airlines.

Terms and Conditions:

Offer only applies to AAdvantage members who receive this email directly from American Airlines.

AAdvantage promotion is valid for round-trip travel on purchased, published fare tickets on American Airlines marketed and operated nonstop flights between Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and New York/LaGuardia (LGA) from March 26, 2012, through June 30, 2012.

A round trip is defined as two one-way trips booked in a single reservation under one ticket number. Reservations containing open jaws are eligible. A maximum of one round trip is permitted per reservation.

Reservation must be booked on or after March 26, 2012, to be eligible.

Targeted offers are usually not visible at AA.com, but this offer appears (last in the list of items) on the AAdvantage  ”Flight Offers” landing page.

So unless they’ve started publishing targeted offers on AA.com, it was probably posted by mistake (most likely), or the targeted requirement was a mistake (least likely).

Since it did show up on the website, it doesn’t hurt to give it a try. I didn’t receive a copy of the promotion, and I’ve got some New York travel in April, so I registered just to see what happens.

If you register, you’ll get an email that confirms the fact of your registration, but makes no mention of whether or not you earn the Double Elite AAdvantage Miles (so don’t get excited until you see the extra miles show up into you account).

Go here for complete details and register here with this promo code: DFLGA    Let me know if you hear back from American!

The Double Elite and Double AAdvantage Miles offer is back (actually, it never expired).

American is extending their offer to residents of Illinois, Texas, and California of Double Elite Qualifying Miles and Double AAdvantage Miles on flights between Chicago and San Francisco/Los Angeles, and Dallas-Ft.Worth and San Francisco/Los Angeles. This isn’t a big surprise considering that they and Virgin America are still aggressively competing on these routes.

One new twist to the offer: flights between Chicago and Orange County are included in this promotion.  Virgin American doesn’t fly between the two cities, but AA and United have both been offering some cheap fares on the route, so maybe this is related.

The bonus code remains the same, so no need to register again if you’ve already signed up for this offer.  Here are the details:

Offer Extended Through June 30, 2012. Now You Have More Time To Increase Your Mileage Balance and Qualify For AAdvantage Elite Status Faster

Award: Double Elite-Status Qualifying Miles. Double Flight Miles

Bonus Code: DEQ11

Dates: Book your trip and fly between October 27, 2011, and June 30, 2012

Offer: Reach AAdvantage elite status faster than ever with this offer and add to your mileage balance at the same time! Just book a round-trip ticket and fly on American Airlines between Chicago O’Hare and Los Angeles, Orange County* or San Francisco or between Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles or San Francisco from October 27, 2011, through June 30, 2012. You’ll earn double flight miles AND double elite-qualifying miles, the miles that bring you closer to AAdvantage elite status membership – at an accelerated rate.

With so many choices, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to get to your destination and add more miles to your AAdvantage account:

Between Chicago and Los Angeles 10 nonstops each business day
Between Chicago and San Francisco 7 nonstops each business day
Between Chicago and Orange County 3 nonstops each business day
Between DFW and Los Angeles 18 nonstops each business day
Between DFW and San Francisco 11 nonstops each business day

Note: This offer is valid only for AAdvantage members with an address on file with AAdvantage Marketing programs in California, Illinois or Texas.

* Offer applies to travel booked and flown between Chicago O’Hare and Orange Country starting March 9, 2012 through June 30, 2012.

I’ve been curious about Virgin’s service and have wanted to try them just for fun, but not so curious as to give up the chance of an upgrade or the AAdvantage miles.  And with double elite miles and flight miles, there’s no chance of it happening.   Obviously, the marketing works!

Go here for complete terms and conditions.

Photo: Double
Credit: Gidzy on Flickr

If you’re enrolled in the American Airlines Business ExtrAA program (sort of like AAdvantage Miles for small business), you can pick up some extra points if you travel though (or from) Dallas/Ft Worth to San Francisco, San Jose or Fresno:

In appreciation of your company’s business, we are excited to reward you with a special offer between now and April 30, 2012.

For U.S. Domestic1 travel to and from San Francisco, San Jose or Fresno via Dallas/Fort Worth, register using promotion code FEB12CALIFORNIA and earn:

• Triple Business ExtrAA points for travel on First Class or Main Cabin Full fares
• Double Business ExtrAA points for travel on Other Main Cabin fares

American has a rich and historic connection to California and is committed to offering a strong network and superior service. Your company’s Business ExtrAA points will add up quickly with this great promotion so don’t miss out!

Eligible First Class fares include fares booked in F, A, and P
Eligible Main Cabin Full fares include fares booked in Y
Eligible Other Main Cabin fares include all fares except those booked in E and T.

This isn’t a targeted offer.  From the terms and conditions:

To qualify for the bonus offer, the company must be based in the U.S. and enrolled in the Business ExtrAA program. Registration prior to travel using the FEB12CALIFORNIA promotion code now through April 30, 2012 is required.

Go here to sign up and for complete details.

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Deals We Like and Points, Miles and Martinis are teaming up to give away American Airlines discount codes!!  Go here to find out how to enter their contests.  

Photo: Extra hier gehts schnell
Credit: hmboo on Flickr

I’m traveling this week and missed posting the results of Monday’s random drawing. So to start today’s post, Congratulations to worldtraveller2: you’re the winner of the new Marcus Samuelsson spiced nut mix!

Because more than 200 American Airlines pilots decided to retire during the 4th quarter of last year, American had to reduce the number of widebody 767 and 777 aircraft on their domestic schedule.

Well, it looks like they’re bringing them back. Here’s a look at the widebody flights (all 767s) that were added to the schedule:

Dallas- Ft. Worth

Date From To Flight Frequency
2/9/12 DFW LAX 2431 1234567
2/9/12 DFW LAX 2439 12345..
2/9/12 DFW SFO 1937 1234567

New York JFK

Date From To Flight Frequency
2/9/12 JFK LAX 1 1234567

Los Angeles

Date From To Flight Frequency
2/9/12 LAX BOS 222 1234567

2/9/12 LAX DFW 2414 12345..
2/9/12 LAX DFW 2416 1234567

3/11/12 LAX HNL 287 1234567

2/9/12 LAX OGG 161 1234567
2/9/12 LAX OGG 253 1234567

Kahului Airport, Maui

Date From To Flight Frequency
2/9/12 OGG LAX 14 1234567
2/9/12 OGG LAX 254 1234567

San Francisco

Date From To Flight Frequency
2/9/12 SFO DFW 414 1234567

There were also some routes that saw a reduction in widebody service: Chicago and Miami each lost two flights from one to the other.

I was hoping they’d bring back the widebody service between Chicago and Dallas, that was one of my favorite flights.

American used to fly a Boeing 777 with a 3 class configuration that was sold as a two class configured flight. It was still standard coach service in the business class cabin, but AAdvantage members with elite status were able to reserve the roomier seats.

Anyway, go here to see a copy of the complete domestic widebody schedule.

Photo: American 767 on a murky day SFO airport
Credit: Bill Abbott on Flickr

American Airlines is launching service to Garden City, Kansas in April. And to promote the new route they’re offering Double AAdvantage Miles:

Airline: American Eagle

Award: Bonus Miles

Bonus Code: GCK2X

Dates: Travel between April 3, 2012, and June 30, 2012

Offer: Starting April 3, 2012, American Eagle will offer daily nonstop flights between Dallas/Fort Worth and Garden City, KS. To celebrate, you can earn double miles every time you fly our new route through June 30, 2012.

I’ve actually been to Garden City.  For a small city (less than 30,000 population), they’ve got more than their share of outstanding golf courses.  Many years ago I played Southwind and Buffalo Dunes, and you have no idea how thick prairie grass can grow until you’ve tried to hit a golf ball out of it.  The wind can be tough too, you’re either knocking your drive 25 feet, into the wind, or carrying 450 yards with your 9 iron and the wind behind you.

Anyway, go here to for more details or to register for this offer.

Later today, I’ll be announcing a winner in yesterday’s oneworld MegaDo related giveaway and offering another prize in a random drawing. Come back a little later for a chance to win!

Photo: Gas Station Garden City, Kanasas: “After temporarily outrunning the rain, I looked for a place to capture the crimson colors of the sunset under the storm clouds.”
Credit: Patrick Emerson on Flickr

The Texas Rangers have signed Japanese pitching ace Yu Darvish as a starting pitcher and to celebrate the occasion American has launched a 24 hour fare sale on flight from Dallas to Tokyo.

In honor of the newest big star headed to the Lone Star state, American Airlines is having a one day sale! For today only, American Airlines is offering a great sale fare to Tokyo, Japan. Purchase your flight on AA.com by January 20, 2012, and begin travel February 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012.

That’s right, travel round trip from Dallas/Fort Worth to Tokyo for only $1134 including taxes and fees!

The $1,134 price isn’t random: Yu will wear number 11 and Rangers legend and CEO wore number 34.

Even better, Business Class tickets are $3411 (which is about half the normal price)!

There are a few restrictions:

• Tickets booked on AA.com must be purchased at least 11 days prior to departure or within 1 day of making reservations, or 11:59 p.m. (CT), January 20, 2012, whichever comes first.

• Travel Period: Fares are valid for outbound travel from February 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012.

• Valid Travel Days: Sale fares are valid for travel daily.

• Min/Max Stay: A 3-night minimum stay is required and a 1 month maximum stay is allowed.

• Flight Applications: Fares are only valid on AA Flights 61 and 175 to Tokyo, and AA Flights 60 and 176 from Tokyo.

Go here for complete details.

American and Virgin America have been battling it out in California, Texas and Illinois.  I’ve seen fares from my home airport (DFW) to Los Angeles and San Francisco drop to about half what they were a year ago, and both airlines have been offering big fare sales on the routes that they both serve.  

A couple of times this year, American has offered Double Elite Qualifying Miles and Double AAdvantage Miles in these markets.  The last such offer exired a few weeks ago, but starting today, they’re bringing them back:

Chicago or DFW – Los Angeles or San Francisco. Reach Elite Status Faster. Double Miles

Increase Your Mileage Balance and Qualify For AAdvantage Elite Status Faster Than Ever

Airline: American Airlines

Award: Double Elite-Status Qualifying Miles. Double Flight Miles

Bonus Code: DEQ11

Dates: Book your trip and fly between October 27, 2011, and March 31, 2012

Offer: Reach AAdvantage elite status faster than ever with this offer and add to your mileage balance at the same time! Just book a round-trip ticket and fly on American Airlines between Chicago O’Hare or DFW and Los Angeles or San Francisco from October 27, 2011, through March 31, 2012. You’ll earn double flight miles AND double elite-qualifying miles, the miles that bring you closer to AAdvantage elite status membership – at an accelerated rate.

With so many choices, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to get to your destination and add more miles to your AAdvantage account:

Between Chicago and Los Angeles 10 nonstops each business day
Between Chicago and San Francisco 6 nonstops each business day
Between DFW and Los Angeles 16 nonstops each business day
Between DFW and San Francisco 10 nonstops each business day

I have a few trips to Los Angeles lined up already, so I read through the fine print to see if this new offer applied to travel after October 27, but purchased earlier.  Unfortunately (for me), it does not. To qualify for this offer you’ll have to purchase your ticket on or after today. (Boo hiss, Boo hiss!)

You must be a resident of Illinois, Texas or California to qualify for this offer and registration is required in advance using pomo code DEQ11.  Go here to read the full terms and conditions and to sign up.

(Dan Webb has an interesting interview with Virgin America CEO over at Things in the Sky.)

November 24 is a big day for ski geeks: that’s the day that Aspen’s ski season officially opens.  For AAdvantage geeks though, December 15 is an even bigger day: that’s the day that American Eagle starts service to Aspen from Los Angeles and Dallas – Ft. Worth and it’s also the first day of a new Double AAdvantage Miles offer:

Airline: American Eagle

Award: Bonus Miles

Bonus Code: ASE2X

Dates: Travel between December 15, 2011, and March 15, 2012

Offer: Starting December 15, 2011, American Eagle will offer daily nonstop flights between Los Angeles or Dallas/Fort Worth and Aspen, CO. To celebrate, you can earn double miles every time you fly our new route through March 15, 2012.

I was looking at the snow report on Aspen Ski Company’s website and the Snowmass ski area already has about a foot of snow in some places.  And while I was on the website, I noticed that they were offering advance purchase discounts on lift tickets, lesson, and equipment rentals, so if you’re a skier you might want to visit their site to take a look at their promotional offers.

Register using promo code ASE2X before you travel.  You can go here to sign up or to read the complete terms and conditions.

“Basketball Markings” Photo credit: Joelk75 on Flickr

AAdvantageGeek World Headquarters is located in Dallas, site of Game 1 of the NBA finals. Unfortunately, The Mavericks lost last night, and while the Miami Heat won by 8 points, the big winner in the championship is American Airlines which has naming rights to both the arena in Dallas and the arena in Miami. On a local 10 PM Dallas newscast last night, WFAA reporter Jason Whitely quoted an estimate of each broadcast of a game being worth about $10 million in equivalent advertising value to American.

Hoping to extend that advertising value, American is sponsoring a new promotion on Facebook:

American Airlines has home-court advantage throughout the series! We’ve called both Dallas and Miami home for decades, but we want to know who has the best fans. Play our basketball shootout game, and register for the chance to win one of the 10,000 AA.com discount codes good for travel to/from Dallas or Miami.

First prize is a 50 percent discount on a $200 or greater airfare to or from these cities to any destination in the lower 48 states between September 6, 2011 and November 14, 2011.   American is giving away 100 of these 50 percent discounts. Second prize is a 15 percent discount and they’re giving 9,900 of them. You have to go to American’s Facebook page to play and enter by June 16, 2011. The terms and conditions can also be found at www.facebook.com/aa.

Good luck!

“Bonus” Photo credit: break.things on Flickr

AAdvantage 30th Anniversary Deal of the Day update: First time Citi AAdvantage credit cardmembers can earn up to 60,000 AAdvantage bonus miles. Current Citi AAdvantage credit cardmembers can receive 1,000 just for registering.

Unexpected traveling this week, so forgive the short post.

American Eagle continues to add service from Dallas – Ft. Worth to Mexico. Beginning in June, they will start new service to Mazatlan and Morelia. To promote the two new routes, they’re offering bonus AAdvantage Miles.

Earn double miles for travel on new nonstop between DFW and Mazatlan, Mexico

Airline: American Eagle

Award: Bonus Miles

Promotion Code: MZT2X

Dates: Travel between June 9, 2011, and August 31, 2011

Offer: Starting June 9, 2011, American Eagle will offer daily nonstop flights between DFW and Mazatlan, Mexico. To celebrate, you can earn double miles every time you fly our new route through August 31, 2011.

Earn double miles for travel on new nonstop between DFW and Morelia, Mexico

Airline: American Eagle

Award: Bonus Miles

Promotion Code: MLM2X

Dates: Travel between June 9, 2011, and August 31, 2011

Offer: Starting June 9, 2011, American Eagle will offer daily nonstop flights between DFW and Morelia, Mexico. To celebrate, you can earn double miles every time you fly our new route through August 31, 2011.

If you’re traveling to either city, you should check with the U.S. State Department website to read the latest travel advisories. Both cities are listed on the most recent Travel Warning for Mexico.

Go here to register for the Mazatlan Double AAdvantage Miles offer. Go here to sign up for the Morelia bonus.