In this guide, you will learn how to earn Loyalty Points through Dining towards status with American Airlines
Begin by signing up for AAdvantage Dining using your AAdvantage account. After you join AAdvantage Dining using your AAdvantage account, you navigate to your profile and add your credit cards. Remember, you can add non-Mastercard cards to Advantage Dining as an overflow to SimplyMiles.
The AAdvantage Dining program lets you earn when you dine. It features restaurants, bars, and clubs that you can earn miles (and loyalty points) through (in-person, take-ou,t or delivery). After signing up, you add credit/debit cards (any kind) to track transactions.
The program offers a miles bonus when you sign up and spend $25 or more with a linked credit or debit card. Be sure to read the full terms on the home page. While the bonus miles do not earn you loyalty points, any dining transactions will earn miles and loyalty points.
After logging in, navigate to Linked Cards. Your payment card network will provide activity to AAdvantage Dining. You will receive a notification e-mail one to two days after dining, confirming you’ve earned points. No further action is required.
- If you do not elect to receive email communications from AAdvantage Dining, you will earn 1 mile (and loyalty point) per $1 spent
- If you do elect to receive email communications from AAdvantage Dining, you will earn 3 miles (and loyalty points) per $1 spent
- After you complete 11 transactions and elect to receive email communications from AAdvantage Dining, you will earn 5 miles (and loyalty points) per $1 spent (VIP status)
Important: there is a maximum earnings of 10,000 Loyalty Points per transaction. If you are earning 5 miles per dollar and the bill is over $2,000, ask for it to be split.
VIP Status
After completing 11 transactions and electing to receive email communications, you will earn 5 miles (and loyalty points) per $1 spent. You can complete small transactions for small items, such as a to-go drink or side items, to quickly build up transactions.
Gift Cards
Users have reported being able to purchase gift cards at AAdvantage Dining participating locations and earning Loyalty Points.
Rewards Network
AAdvantage Dining is part of the Rewards Network, which includes dining programs for airlines such as Alaska, Delta, and United. If you use those programs, you do not have to link your cards. If you do try to link with another participating Rewards Network partner, it will unlink the card.
Frequently Asked Questions
For missing miles or other requests, use the contact form on AAdvantage Dining.
You can also try to send an e-mail directly to: aa (at) rewardsnetwork.com.
Points are considered posted when they appear in your AAdvantage account. Unless otherwise noted, the activity date will be the date of the transaction, regardless of when it is posted.
By program:
- Paid Surveys Online: Almost immediately (as long as 24 hours)
- Fuel Rewards: up to 7 business days after the sale (usually post overnight Thursday to Friday)
- Flights on AA: points post within 24 hours after completing the travel (usually within 1 hour after arriving). Purchases for flights with an AA co-branded card post after the close of your billing cycle each month. The activity date is the departure date of each segment.
- AAdvantage Hotels: 5-7 business days after the stay for prepaid bookings. In some cases, it can take up to 6 weeks. Allow up to 10 weeks for non-prepaid bookings. The activity date will be the check-in date.
- SimplyMiles (SM): users have reported that it varies significantly. Some earnings are posted the next day, others take a week or two, or longer.
- AAdvantage eShopping
- It will depend on the terms. Some post in a day, others in a week, or even after a 60-day period. With some merchants, you must wait until the order is picked up or delivered. Regardless, you will have to give at least 15 days. If it doesn’t post within 15 days, you submit a request for credit. Cartera will research the request and it may take 6-8 weeks to resolve (up to 6 months in extreme cases).
- Merchants typically don’t report earnings back to Cartera until the purchase has shipped, is picked up, or is completed. With some merchants, earnings may be split if items are shipped at different times.
- Information found under “Recent transactions” and “Recent store visits” should not be used to determine whether an activity has been correctly tracked or will post
- Days to Post information is available on some merchant pages (often is not reflective of actual time to post)
- Bonus miles via AAdvantage eShopping: bonus miles from promotions can take up to 10 weeks to post
- Hotels via AAdvantage eShopping: If you booked a hotel through AAdvantage eShopping, the booking date will be the transaction date.
- AAdvantage Dining: you will receive an e-mail within a day or two
- AA co-branded Cards: points earned through American Airlines co-branded credit cards are posted after the statement closes each month. Purchases that are made on or before February 28/29 will count for that program year. It may take up to 6 weeks for split billing points to post. Ensure that your AAdvantage # is added to your account
- AA Vacations: miles will post within 2 weeks after travel is complete. A mileage credit may appear in your account after travel for 0 miles but this is not the final amount.
Examples:
- If you book a hotel stay through AAdvantage Hotels for the future, the activity date will be the check-in date
- If your flight took place on February 28 and it doesn’t post until March 5, it counts towards the previous program year
- If you place a Blue Apron order on January 10 but it isn’t delivered until January 25, it will post with the January 10 date
- If you book a Viator activity on February 10, and the activity is in July, it will post with the February 10 date (after the completion of the activity)
The AAdvantage status earning program year starts March 1 and ends on the last day of February.
After logging in, navigate to Linked Cards. Your payment card network will provide activity to AAdvantage Dining. You will receive a notification e-mail one to two days after dining confirming you’ve earned points. No further action is required.
- If you do not elect to receive email communications from AAdvantage Dining, you will earn 1 Loyalty Point per $1 spent.
- If you do elect to receive email communications from AAdvantage Dining, you will earn 3 Loyalty Points per $1 spent.
- After you complete 11 transactions and elect to receive email communications from AAdvantage Dining, you will earn 5 Loyalty Points per $1 spent.
See more information at AAdvantage Dining.