RWRDS Daily Update Dec 12: Changes to American AAdvantage for 2025 include more reward choices & additional lifetime elite status levels

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Changes to American AAdvantage for 2025 include more reward choices & additional lifetime elite status levels

American AAdvantage revealed some updates to the AAdvantage program for 2025 which included more Loyalty Point Reward choices, additional Enhance with Miles choices and the addition of two more lifetime elite status levels.

More Loyalty Point Reward choices

You’ll have more reward choices at these Loyalty Point Reward levels:

15,000: A collectible luggage tag* personalized with your name
100,000 and above: World of Hyatt status and Free Night Awards
175,000 and above: Support sustainable aviation fuel that can reduce carbon emissions compared to conventional jet fuel**

With our new sustainable fuel choice, carbon offsets will no longer be a Loyalty Point Reward choice in the 2025 membership year.

More Enhance with Miles opportunities

Create your preferred travel experience with Enhance with Miles. Once you qualify for status, you have the opportunity to redeem miles for exclusive benefits. In 2025, you’ll have new options available:

AAdvantage Gold® status and above: World of Hyatt Category 1-4 Free Night Award up to 4 times during the AAdvantage® status membership year.
AAdvantage Platinum Pro® status and above: World of Hyatt Category 1-7 Free Night Award up to 4 times during the AAdvantage® status membership year.

New lifetime status levels

Enjoy higher status with select Million Miler™ levels. To reward the loyalty of our most frequent fliers, we’re adding new lifetime status levels starting March 1, 2025:

Fly 4 million miles for lifetime* AAdvantage Platinum Pro® status
Fly 5 million miles for lifetime* AAdvantage Executive Platinum® status

If you already reached 4 or 5 million miles, you’ll have your new status on or around March 1, 2025.

Click here to learn more about these updates to the AAdvantage program.

Images via American Airlines

Marriott expands outdoor market offerings with Postcard Cabins and Trailborn

Marriott International is expanding their presence in the outdoor experiences market with the acquisition of U.S. based Postcard Cabins and a long term partnership with Trailborn.

Postcard Cabins
Marriott has acquired the Postcard Cabins brand, which was formerly known as Getaway Outposts. The Postcard Cabins portfolio provides individual travelers and small groups the opportunity to unplug and enjoy nature. Each property, which consists of groupings of tiny cabins, is located within two hours’ drive of major metropolitan areas. Set on expansive woodlands, the cabins are dog-friendly and feature modern design, private bathrooms, full kitchens, and ample space between cabins for privacy and relaxation. The current Postcard Cabins portfolio, comprised of 29 properties with over 1,200 cabins across the U.S., will operate under long-term agreements with Marriott. The Postcard Cabins portfolio is also expected to be part of Marriott’s planned outdoor-focused collection with expected integration into Marriott’s system and platforms, including Marriott.com and the Marriott Bonvoy mobile app, in 2025.

Trailborn
Marriott has also entered into a long-term agreement to add Trailborn’s portfolio to Marriott’s system. As an innovative outdoor hospitality brand, Trailborn is focused on bringing bespoke hotels built for adventure to the great American outdoors. Trailborn’s current and pipeline portfolio consists of 559 rooms across five iconic outdoor destinations, with several projects in development. They have locations near Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Canyon and in Highlands, NC, with properties to come in Wrightsville Beach, NC, and Mendocino, CA. Trailborn offers design-forward accommodations inspired by each property’s unique locale, experience-driven programming, curated food and beverage offerings, and insightful property teams to help guests chart their exploration. Trailborn’s current portfolio will be part of Marriott’s planned outdoor-focused collection, with expected integration into Marriott’s system and platforms, including Marriott.com and the Marriott Bonvoy mobile app, in 2025.

Once Postcard Cabins and Trailborn are integrated into the Marriott ecosystem you should be able to earn 5 points per dollar on stays with them when paid for with the Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card or the Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card

Click here to learn more about these additions to Marriott

Image via Marriott

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Aeroplan point matching week for Give A Mile: Let’s hit that new goal of 100,000 points for flights of compassion!

December 12 tally: 75.075 points of 100,000 points

We have been running our Flight Hero Holiday Campaign with Give A Mile for over a month now and if you have not donated yet NOW is the time to do so as Aeroplan will match donations made to Give A Mile until December 15th!

This points matching should help a lot with Give A Miles goal of being able raise enough points, miles and cash to provide 52 flights of compassion.

Here at RWRDS Canada our goal was to raise 50,000 points between us and our subscribers, followers, readers, listeners and viewers – however we eclipsed that quite early in the campaign so we have set a new goal of 100,000 points and with the match from Air Canada! you can help us hit that goal super fast!

Click here to learn more and to make a donation to Give A Mile

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