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It’s a good week for anyone needing/wanting to do online shopping. Not only is Rakuten offering 15x at many retailers and the Southwest portal giving up to 1,000 bonus Rapid Rewards points, three more airline shopping portals are each offering up to 2,000 bonus miles.
The Deals
- American Airlines shopping portal:
- Spend $200 & get 500 bonus miles
- Spend $600 & get 2,000 bonus miles
- Direct link to offer
- Alaska Airlines shopping portal:
- Spend $100 & get 400 bonus miles
- Spend $400 & get 2,000 bonus miles
- Direct link to offer
- United shopping portal:
- Spend $100 & get 500 bonus miles
- Spend $400 & get 2,000 bonus miles
- Direct link to offer
Key Terms
- All portal bonuses expire May 15, 2023.
Terms below are for the Alaska Airlines shopping portal; terms for other portals are similar.
- During the “Member Appreciation Bonus” offer, which runs from 5/8/2023 through 5/15/2023 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will receive a one-time bonus of up to 2,000 Mileage Plan bonus miles on qualifying purchases made through the Mileage Plan Shopping mall or from purchases made through Mileage Plan Shopping in-store offers.
- This one-time bonus award will be determined using one of the following tiers, based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period: Tier 1 bonus: 400 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $100; or Tier 2 bonus: 2,000 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $400 or more.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles.
- Please see the Mileage Plan Shopping site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus miles to post to your Mileage Plan Shopping account.
- The Tier 2 bonus provides the maximum number of miles that will be awarded.
Quick Thoughts
The American Airlines bonus might be of interest for people who are working on earning status in the AAdvantage program. While you won’t earn a corresponding number of Loyalty Points as the miles you get from the bonus, you will earn Loyalty Points from the base spend.
As for the Alaska Airlines and United portals, they have a feature that makes it easier to hit the spending thresholds. Both those portals offer a card-linked program that earn you bonus miles when shopping in-store at participating retailers rather than only being able to make purchases online. That can be particularly useful if you’d rather shop in-store at retailers like GameStop, Boscov’s, Carter’s and more.
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[…] portal allows you to earn miles via purchases at a wide range of retailers. In addition, there are regular bonuses that offer a set amount of miles for reaching a certain dollar amount of purchases when shopping […]
I used to score all these quickly and easily by buying VCG’s on giftcards.com , a site that doesn’t show up at the portals anymore. Are there stores similar to giftcards.com that make it easy and quick to score these?
Nothing to say about the portals, but I did see something very concerning on the Alaska website today. I saw business class flights from West Coast U.S. pricing at 120k miles one way on JAL. I look at these pretty consistently and JAL ALWAYS prices at 60k miles. There were still days woth 60k miles available but even more with 120k miles. I had never seen this before and it shows me that some sort of dynamic pricing is here on that redemption. Another major devaluation imho.