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American Airlines is sweetening the deal on trips between Chicago and West Coast cities like L.A. and San Francisco. Book a flight and earn double miles. Folks, that’s double redeemable miles and double status-earning miles. If you’ve got any upcoming trips on these routes, you just might want to take a look at American’s offerings.

American Airlines is making a big push to get their AAdvantage frequent flier program members registered for various email lists. So, they’ve created “The Appraiser,” an online tool that reviews your account, identifies which email lists you have yet to join, and gives you AAdvantage miles for signing up. Here are the deets.

American recently revamped its online shopping program. If you’re an AA frequent flier program member and you shop through their portal, you’ll earn miles. Well, to draw attention to the e-Shopping program, they’re giving away 500 miles to sign up and register your AAdvantage number. No purchase required. Free miles.

Of late, we’ve been focused on the multitude of Priority Club points-earning opportunities. Now, it’s time to shift focus from hotel promos to frequent flier programs. First up? Continental’s Mileathon promo.

BrownGirlsFly is all about finding and taking advantage of travel deals and promotions. Here’s the run down of our top tips regarding frequent flier and frequent hotel stay programs that every casual and expert traveler should follow.