TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums St. Maarten - St. Martin Booked my return from SXM today

Was able to book our return on Miles with AA for a Saturday departure at 12:15 pm to CLT-SEA getting home around 8:40 pm same day if all goes well. We usually come home on a Friday with miles but miles were the same for FC on Saturday and that earlier CLT flight wasn't listed for a Friday which would have us arriving around 11:00 pm.

Have a safe trip.

Thanks. This is for our May 2026 trip. Guess I should have included that in title or post.

Obviously the fares in May are far different from those in November. I've never been able to use miles from Eastern NC to SXM. Miles are over 100K each for FC.

Ours were 95k pp one way.

Gotcha. I'll have to build more up!

And our total cost for both of us was $183.48.

Booked our May return as well. 8,000 miles per person. Second class.

Which I guess is better than no class.

So how much money do you need to put on cc to accumulate that many miles?

I'm not exactly sure the number of miles to get 8,000 points but most point cards give 3 points for one dollar on select items such as groceries or/and gas and 1for1 for everything else.

We put everything on a card. As long as you pay it in full it works to add up points. Two years ago we used points for rt for 2 people from BOS. Last year got a good fare so didn't use points and next trip (2026)is another great deal for under a grand so didn't use points. Probably will use them for 2027 God willing.

I may be guilty of pimping here, but I won't name the actual card, lol. We find airline miles are very hard to use, so we use a cash back card instead. As Ro says, put everything on the card and pay the balance in full monthly.

Good deal.

As mentioned before, AA miles seem to get more bang for the point than DL miles. The deals also seem to linger between initial search and follow-on searches for one or multiple tickets until booked. With Delta, often times the initial search says X miles and you often dont see that cheap deal on subsequent searches or if you want to book multiple passengers.

So, we rarely use the AMEX card anymore and use the AA Advantage.

Took about 2-3 years to accumulate mine. Used wife's miles last year so we are both rather low now. Might have to buy both ways for 2027.

AA is our only choices from clt and the fares for cash or miles aren’t particularly good. We used to fly from Boston thru Clt for much less money. Therefore we gave up on AA miles card and just go for cash back card.

I've found very good fares on AA. Just need to buy when they first break. Having my fixed week timeshare makes it easy knowing the dates.