Latest British Airways and American Airlines Promo Not Worth It

Many other blogs posted pieces on the latest offer from British Airways that was matched by American that would give up to 20,000 bonus miles per flight when flying from the United States to Europe (Or New York to Dublin on AA Edit: Wrong Original Link. Here is the correct link for all flights from the US to Europe). If you are able to get five round-trips on BA you can earn an additional 100,000 miles.



At first you are thinking...oh yeah, sign me up! But then when you dive deep into the details you discover that the only trips that are eligible for these bonus amounts are trips that are booked into full-fare tickets (i.e. F, A, J, C, D, R, I, W, E, T, Y, B or H on BA) which if you were to book right now for a week in May flying from Washington, D.C. to London would set you back $1488 in Economy, $2071 in Premium Economy and $7324 in Business Class.

It would be nice to earn all of the extra bonus miles, but unless you are sitting on a pile of cash you need to burn or you have a bunch of business trips to Europe coming up that you will be reimbursed for, it just doesn't seem like a good idea to drop nearly $1500 to just get 20,000 bonus miles per flight. Others may disagree with me, but I look at this from the perspective of myself who can't spend anywhere close to $1500 on a plane ticket and is in this hobby to avoid doing just that. Yes the return is nice, but I could think of so many other things I could spend $1500 on and get to my travel goals just as well. It may work for some, but I'll take a pass till a better offer comes along.
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