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American has added tons of new dates and destinations to the ongoing Economy Web Specials award sale. Since we first posted about this last week, we've seen 20K round trips to Hawaii and even 10K round-trip awards to New Zealand and Australia. While the specifics are changing by the hour, the deal is still thriving. We're seeing a surge in new destinations and dates —many of which are available through the end of the current schedule in October 2020.
These offers typically haven't lasted long, so you don't want to wait around to book your next flights. If you have a few AAdvantage miles that are burning a hole in your pocket, you need to get over to American Airlines and start searching for WebsAAver Specials immediately!
While both AA and United have been switching over to dynamic award pricing, they both still have some semblance of their old award charts. Standard saver-level pricing for a domestic one-way economy ticket is 12,500 miles.
WebsAAver Special Calendar Search
However, you can now select “Economy Web Special,” which may save you a bundle of miles.
While these tickets are cheaper, you'll also want to be careful, because these awards come with added restrictions.
Once you've determined you can live with that, you may continue your search. Of course, many of these flights won't be the most direct routing; some routes will have multiple connections, and layovers may be longer than normal. But with a discount as high as 60%, many will find the tradeoff well worth the extra travel time.
When viewing the results, American “conveniently” doesn't have an option to sort by award price, so you may need to scroll through multiple pages of itineraries to locate the Web Special Pricing. Be aware that AA.com also displays results for nearby airports, so make sure you verify all the details before confirming a ticket. It's easy to search for LAX and find you're flying out of Long Beach Municipal.
Domestic Round Trip Examples
Even trips to Hawaii, which are typically priced at 22,500 miles each way can be located at a nice discount. Last week, there were Hawaii flights as low as 10K each way. In our most recent search, 15K seemed to be the minimum, but there are many, many possibilities that we didn't have time to investigate.
Think that these are only from the West Coast? Guess again! You can find them from the East Coast too! How about 15K each way from the DC area? There are multiple 15K options from DCA, IAD, and BWI!
Terms & Conditions
American includes the following details on their website (emphasis mine):
Available exclusively on aa.com, Economy Web Special awards may be offered on select flights and dates for fewer miles than either the AAnytime or MileSAAver award level for travel in the Main Cabin. Mileage levels vary by date and flight. When available, you’ll see the applicable award level while booking your trip.
Tickets that include an Economy Web Special award don’t allow changes, and – while you can cancel and reinstate your miles – fees may apply. Reinstatement fees are waived for Executive Platinum members.
Our Take
What makes these really incredible is that the discounts aren't limited to off-peak travel months. We found plenty of options through the end of the schedule—allowing you to fly as late as October, 2020! If you wish to take advantage of these offers, flexibility is the key. Saturday to Saturday may not work. Wednesday to Wednesday may!
Don't forget, AA allows you to hold an award for up to 5 days at no cost. If you think there is even a chance you might want to book an award, it's better to put it on hold to make sure someone else doesn't beat you to the punch. Likewise, if you do miss out on a ticket because it took too long to pull the trigger, keep checking back. Other travelers may have put the seats on hold speculatively, and if they don't confirm their reservation, you may find seats back in circulation after a few days.
Have you booked an AA Web Saver Fare? Let us know in the comments!
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Oh i love this deals!!!! I just found one of this from Buenos Aires to Miami for 15k on one-way special offers instead of 30k !!!
Thanks!
booked a flight on Sunday of Thanksgiving Weekend, December 1st and got a web deal to use my miles. Was an awesome deal.
Great News and Excellent opportunity to use my AA miles! I will start to looking for some adventure!! May be LA o Las Vegas!! Woohoo!!
Just saw this and got a 20k rt from Hawaii to New York! Many mahalos!
Very good article. I hope AA will continue with these promotions and create more promos like this in the future for the good use of our AA miles.
These Economy/Mile Saver deals are amazing! I have a AA credit card, and although I tend to spend/earn miles more than I use them, I’m hoping to put them to good use in 2020 and find some flights to HI for some of the lower miles other folks have reported!
As others have commented, that’s what you used to be able to get flights for, so it’s nice to see that maybe you can get a r/t for 25k miles again at some point!
I also love how AA let’s you hold the reservation – I’ve done this in the past – their customer service is great and I’ve had this CC since I lived on the west coast, when they used to be US Airways an their hub was in PHX.
These are some incredible deals… thanks very much for the notification! It’s especially helpful because we fly American quite frequently and we have some AA miles that will expire very soon.
This is a great value! Thanks for sharing.
Perfect! Very clearly and conveniently!
Yes, while the system is changing there are deals to be had in murky waters! Yet, with travel bloggers as ubiqutous as they at this day and age I wonder how long these deals will last eventually?
There are very cheap American Airlines AAdvantage thousands exchanges (Miami x 15,000 one way)From Buenos Aires .
Is for to take advantage of it too
It’s great. It’s a great value. Only 10 k miles.
If you can score one of these specials then it’s a great deal, but long-run I find this to be problematic and would rather have consistent, reasonable pricing.
I do hope this continues with AA. Sometimes it seems like the points needed are always a little more than how many you have available, but some of these fares are very doable with smaller mileage accumulation, which I would love to use. Thanks for letting us know!
AA let’s you hold an award ticket for 5days or all reservations? I’m going to have to check this out! I didn’t know they had that!
Well, that’s nice of them. I will take for sure advantage of that next time I’m booking. At least then I know I’ll have my award booking and then can get the paid tickets for the rest of my family.
I live in an AA hub and it’s hard to get these discounted amounts but maybe just maybe I’ll find one now.
I’ve found some very good offers.
Anyway, I’ve not found as indicated in the article very good redemptions to Australia and New Zealand.
Great value!! Thank you for the information!
Great value!!! This is amazing !!!
5+ years ago got 10K deal direct to Miami, FL right around Christmas. Nice to see that these deals are back especially with long distance planning into 2020
Does anyone have any suggestions for finding routes that avoid paying high surcharges from UK to USA?
these deals are great!! Thanks you for keeping us little fish in the loop on great deals.!
Thanks for the info!
there are some great flight deals in here… but the 8-15 hour lay overs make it almost impossible to actually use these flight segments.
Great info! I didn’t know you could hold for 5 days!
We have some accounts in the family with less than 10K miles and may be able to use them now!
For 10k miles RT, the ‘web specials’ can be worth it – but hate seeing other short flights for DFW captives priced at gouge levels.
Thanks for useful information!
Can this special economy website also be used within South America or Latin America?
Thank you very much
As I realize that some of these originating cities are not within reach of many people, but MINE IS! I am totally jumping on this one. Thank you for the post & thank you American Airlines. They seem to be stepping it up now.
This is good to know that they have done something similar to delta wherein they give web specials or sale on mileage bookings. If only it is easier to search and sort on their website.
Thanks for the tip!!
Thanks for the info!
Thank you! Maybe the destinations or dates I’m looking at are not offering any deals right now, but I’ll continue checking.
Wow – that’s some great deals!
no special offer so far
Would be nice if United did this too
Yes..some of the savings are awesome .
I will definitely be on the lookout !
Great article. I scored two trips using this info
Anyone see any trips from Seattle?
I hope Phoenix becomes a common city for these sales!
Is this type of deal seen occasionally with AA or is it pretty much unheard of? Very tempted despite the restrictions…
These Economy Web Special award sales or WebsAAver Specials have been a program for probably 2 years now.
I’m new to this, so maybe I’m just unfamiliar with the layout of the website…but how do you find the WebsAAver specials? Nothing came up when I logged in and used the search bar.
I could not find any 10K awards from LAX to AKL or SYD.
10K roundtrips can’t be beat. Great value.
Saw some great deals when I looked from my small hometown airport even!
If I wasn’t trying to get to the next level of AA status right now, I’d take advantage of this opportunity. I prefer to save my points for aspirational awards anyway.
10K round-trip awards to New Zealand and Australia? OMG, pigs do fly!
Hahahahahah. Hope it will be possible in the future!
I saw that too, i might have to check that out further.
Yeah, was there like one seat available at this rate?!
Wish they would make it easier to sort by price AND by cabin – the new engine is such a hassle.
Can get some good value here.
I hope this deal provides the deal that I need. I always seem to be just a little short on points when I try and book a flight. Maybe this time…
Has anyone seen deals from Charlotte or Raleigh?
Muchas gracias por informarnos.
Es una excelente opción para utilizar millas a destinos que normalmente tienen un precio elevado.
Recuerdo hace muchos años haber utilizado puntos en AA para viajar a Hawai por menos de 20k por tramo desde Sudamérica. Una posibilidad con la que no siempre se puede contar. El ahorro nos significó muchísima dinero.
Veremos ahora si podemos aprovechar nuevamente esta promo para viajar lo más lejos que se pueda consumiendo la menor cantidad de millas posible.
Muchas gracias.
Excelente noticia! Muchas gracias!
Great infromation! Thank you very much!