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Earn 600 Bonus Miles and Save Up To 15% with Alamo

Rent a midsize car or larger for 4 or more days at any participating Alamo location in the United States or Canada and earn 600 American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles and save up to 15% off your car rental.

For reservations, simply book online at www.alamo.com or call 1-800-468-5866 and use/request Contract ID: 7013319. Offer valid now through December 31, 2006. Be sure to provide your AAdvantage number at the time of rental.

To make your hassle free rental experience even better try our Online Check-In! Answer a few questions. Print your rental agreement. Skip the line & go directly to your car. With Alamo it is that easy!

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Other Things to do with Miles

We’ve heard this for awhile now, but today we decided to actually check it out: what else can you do with your miles, besides redeem them for never-available seats (or, what can you do with those miscellaneous miles that will never-quite-reach-a-ticket level?)

For our sleuthing, we discovered a few unusual things that the airlines are doing.

With United Air Lines miles, you can bid on auctions.

If you’re a member of NWA’s WorldPerks, why not use some extra miles to donate to a good cause, or order a magazine? Delta also offers magazines for miles.

For AmericanAirlines frequent flyer program, you can simply save up for hotel reservations and rentals.

Are You a Road Warrior?

Life on the road is a sport, and American Airlines is looking for a real MVP to win the 5th Annual American Way Road Warrior Search. And, because life on the road can be hard, they’ve made it easier than ever to enter.

Once you’ve completed the contact info and multiple choice questions, get ready to have some real Road Warrior fun! This year’s entry form includes a beautiful travel montage (how many places can you identify?), a great travel Mad Lib (see the results after you’ve submitted your entry), one all-important essay question about your unique Road Warrior perspective, and a bonus question that involves writing your own top 10 list. You can also upload an image to your entry to really impress the judges!

The Grand Prize winner will score 2 MILLION HILTON HHONORS BONUS POINTS that can be used at more than 2,800 participating Hilton Family hotels worldwide, plus 1 MILLION AADVANTAGE MILES to get you where you’d like to go.

We looked for information on past warriors, to see what they did, but couldn’t come up with anything. Think you’re a road warrior? Put it to the test.

Insider’s Deal Promotion from American Airlines

The big wigs of air travel always have one deal or another going on. The most recent one from American Airlines is an interactive game to get people to sign up for their newsletters.

Give the system your email address (which they promise not to spam, but we’re not so sure) to enter the AA.com Insider’s Deal sweepstakes for your chance to win cash, miles or rewards!

You have to learn more about the newsletters in the process, but it’s a pretty easy system. Now, if only we can win that million bucks…

AA Sweepstakes

Save Miles with Off-Peak Travel Awards

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It seems like you can get miles today for everything – staying at a hotel, dining, even paying for a dog wash! With ‘get ‘em quick’ miles like that, it’s no wonder that the miles required for a ticket are climbing.

We were looking through our American Airlines frequent flyer email today and came across a few things of note – especially where they pointed out tha travel during off-peak time periods can save up to 20,000 miles per award! Since round-trip tickets are standard at 25,000 miles, that’s quite a savings indeed!

Missing some miles? We also noticed this promotion is about to end – For a limited time, you can reactivate some or all of the miles that have expired from your account and use them to claim awards. With this special offer, you can extend the life of expired miles and quickly boost your available mileage balance. This offer is available June 27, 2005 – June 30, 2006. Please allow 72 hours for the miles to post to your account.

Travel Off Peak with Miles or Book a Ticket

American Airlines – Advantage Promotions Passport

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Introducing the AAdvantage Promotions Passport!

Is it your ticket to travel? Or your permit to pass through? Maybe it’s your license to dive in deep. It’s extraordinary served with a twist. Can’t wait to find out? Check out the American Airlines’ Frequent Flyer Program bonus site, called AAdvantage Promotions Passport and see what you’ve been missing! Bottom line: You can’t pass this up.

Here’s their first promotion: Whether buying, dining, financing or romancing – you have an excessive enthusiasm for earning (and burning) those AAdvantage bonus miles. They want to hear about it! Tell them what makes you a true MILEAGE MANIAC, and you could WIN 20,000 AADVANTAGE BONUS MILES plus have your story and photo featured on the site. Be unique. Be nutty. Be rewarded!

Advantage Promotions Passport

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Cheap Tickets to Japan: Round-Trip Flights From $636+

Japan Travel Sale: Round-Trip Flights From $636+

We watched Memoirs of a Geisha last night, and although it wasn’t as good as the book, it did make us want to jump on the next flight to Japan to go shopping for a amazing kimono (and someone to show us how to put it on, of course).

We went searching and found these outrageous deals to Tokyo and Osaka, Japan were extended! Right now, you can make the transpacific journey for as little as $636+ round-trip. Book now and take off (just make sure to bring us something back!)

Tickets must be purchased by June 14, 2006. Travel is valid July 1 through August 31, with all travel complete by November 29, 2006. Fares shown are valid for travel Monday through Thursday.

Japan Travel Sale: Round-Trip Flights From $636+

Japan Travel Sale: Round-Trip Flights From $636+

American Airlines hasn’t found a way to shrink the ocean, but it’s got the next best thing–outrageous deals to Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Right now, you can make the transpacific journey for as little as $636+ round-trip. Book now and take off!

Tickets must be purchased by May 31, 2006. Travel is valid July 1 through July 31, with all travel complete by October 31, 2006. Fares shown are valid for travel Monday through Thursday.

Japan Travel Sale: Round-Trip Flights From $636+

25 Amazing Deals in 25 Days

The 25th Anniversary celebration continues from American Airlines and their frequent flyer program.

Since May 1, they’ve been offering one great deal every day like 25% off select MileSAAver awards, a chance to win $25 Cruises, bonus miles on Avis rentals for every year you’ve been an AAdvantage member and a great rate and bonus miles on a Marriott stay in Hawaii. Plus starting today, you can enter to win a new 2007 Pontiac G6 from National! These are just a few of the great deals offered every day at www.aadvantage25.com/

Visit daily – and don’t miss out, you never know what they’ll offer next!

To learn more about the 25th Anniversary of the AAdvantage program go to www.aa.com/25