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Back in October, I wrote about Hyatt and American Airlines making significant updates to the partnership and offering new benefits such as elite status, free nights, and more to members of both World of Hyatt and American AAdvantage®. These benefits are now live, so I wanted to revisit what is being offered.
New American AAdvantage® Benefits:
- Free Night Awards: Starting yesterday, January 2nd, AAdvantage® members became eligible to redeem miles for World of Hyatt Free Night Awards:
- Category 1-4 Free Night Award: At 40,000 Loyalty Points or the AAdvantage Gold® level, AAdvantage® members can redeem miles for a World of Hyatt Category 1–4 Free Night Award.
- Category 1-7 Free Night Award: At 125,000 Loyalty Points or the AAdvantage Platinum® level, AAdvantage® members can redeem miles for a World of Hyatt Category 1–7 Free Night Award.
- New AAdvantage® Loyalty Point Rewards: Beginning March 1st, World of Hyatt awards will be a choice at different levels of Loyalty Point earning:
- Discoverist Status: AAdvantage® members unlock World of Hyatt Discoverist status at 100,000 Loyalty Points
- Explorist Status: AAdvantage® members can choose World of Hyatt Explorist status at the 175,000 and 250,000 Loyalty Points Reward levels
- Category 1-4 Free Night Award: This can be selected at the 400,000, 550,000 and 750,000 Loyalty Points Reward levels
- Category 1-7 Free Night Award: This can be selected at the one million, three million, and five million Loyalty Point Reward levels
New World of Hyatt Benefits:
- World of Hyatt Milestone Reward Choices: On January 1st, AAdvantage® rewards became a choice within the World of Hyatt Milestone Rewards at almost every milestone. These include:
- Preferred Seat Coupons: At 20 and 30 nights or 35,000 and 50,000 base points respectively, World of Hyatt members can choose two (2) Preferred seat coupons on American Airlines flights.
- Main Cabin Extra Seat Coupons: At 40 and 50 nights or 65,000 and 80,000 base points respectively, World of Hyatt members can choose two (2) Main Cabin Extra seat coupons on American Airlines flights.
- Gold Status: At 70, 80, and 90 nights respectively, World of Hyatt members will get the choice of AAdvantage Gold® status, valid for the full status membership year.
- Platinum Status: Starting at 100 nights, World of Hyatt members will get the choice of AAdvantage Platinum® status, valid for the full status membership year.
- AAdvantage® Status for a Day: On January 1st, World of Hyatt Explorist and Globalist members became eligible to unlock the ability to redeem World of Hyatt points for AAdvantage® Status for a Day:
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- AAdvantage Gold® Status for a Day: This costs 5,000 World of Hyatt points
- AAdvantage Platinum® Status for a Day:This costs 8,000 World of Hyatt points
- AAdvantage Platinum Pro® Status for a Day:This costs 12,000 World of Hyatt points
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While there are lots of new benefits, these changes also come with some bad news. Effective January 1st, the ability for linked status members to earn AAdvantage® miles and World of Hyatt® Bonus Points at the same time was eliminated. Through December 31, 2024, American AAdvantage Gold, Platinum, Platinum Pro, and Executive Platinum members could earn one bonus mile per $1 spent on qualifying Hyatt stays while World of Hyatt® Discoverist, Explorist, and Globalist members could earn one bonus World of Hyatt® point per $1 spent on American Airlines flights.
Anthony’s Take: I don’t fly American often enough to see value in this partnership. I liked that I could earn bonus Hyatt points when I did fly and won’t really be partaking here.
(Image Credits: Hyatt and American Airlines.)
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