MileIntelFor AAdvantage members AwardWallet left behind
Your AAdvantage miles, finally trackable again.
AwardWallet cannot sync American Airlines anymore. MileIntel can, by reading the AA emails already in your inbox. No password sharing. No scraping. Just intelligence.
Built for the AAdvantage faithful after the 2024 cutoff
- No password sharing
- Bank-level OAuth
- Read-only Gmail access
- Delete anytime
What happened
In 2024, American Airlines pulled the rug on AwardWallet.
- For yearsAwardWallet was the default.
- ThenAA started actively blocking that access. Captchas. Cookie checks.
- EventuallyAwardWallet removed the integration entirely.
For years, AwardWallet was the default. You linked your AAdvantage account, it logged in for you, scraped your balance, and showed everything in one place. Then AA started actively blocking that access. Captchas. Cookie checks. Eventually, AwardWallet announced it could no longer reliably track American Airlines accounts and removed the integration entirely.
The community has not been quiet about it. Travel blogs covered it. Reddit threads run long. AwardWallet still works for United, Delta, Marriott, and a hundred other programs. American is the one that disappeared. If you are a long-time AAdvantage member with five or six figures in miles, you suddenly have no automated way to see them outside aa.com itself.
Manually checking aa.com is not the worst thing in the world. It is the worst thing for the kind of person who used AwardWallet in the first place: someone with multiple programs, multiple cards, and a portfolio that needs a dashboard, not a browser tab. That is the gap MileIntel fills, with a fundamentally different approach.
We do not log in to American. We read what American emails you.
How MileIntel does it differently
Three steps. No AA password ever.
- 01
Connect Gmail with OAuth
One click on Google's standard consent screen. Read-only scope. You can revoke it from your Google account in five seconds. MileIntel never sees your AA password because we never ask for it.
- 02
We parse the AA emails you already get
Booking confirmations. AAdvantage account statements. Mile-deposit receipts. Upgrade notifications. We extract balances, Loyalty Points, upgrade certificates, and award activity from messages American already sends you.
- 03
You get a live dashboard and alerts
Always-current AAdvantage balance, beside every other program in your wallet. Push or email alerts when miles deposit, certificates are about to expire, or systemwide upgrade space opens on a flight you are watching.
Honest note
Award seat monitoring covers AA, United, Delta, Alaska, and JetBlue reliably today. Some international partners are partial coverage and we will tell you which ones inside the app.
Side by side
AwardWallet vs MileIntel for AAdvantage
We will be fair. AwardWallet is still excellent for non-AA programs. This page is specifically about American Airlines, where the gap is real.
| Feature | AwardWallet | MileIntel |
|---|---|---|
| Tracks AAdvantage balance automatically | No, removed in 2024 | Yes, via Gmail |
| Requires your AA.com password | Used to, no longer applicable | Never |
| Detects new miles deposits | No for AA | Yes, from deposit emails |
| Detects upgrade certificates and Loyalty Points | No for AA | Yes, parsed from AA emails |
| Monitors award seat availability | Limited | Yes for top US carriers, expanding |
| Mobile push alerts for mile activity | Email only | Push, email, and SMS |
| Approach (inbox vs. password login) | Password scraping (now blocked) | Gmail OAuth, read only |
| Price for AA tracking | Paid plan, AA still unsupported | Free |
Free forever
What you get for $0
If you want multi-program automation, upgrade probability scoring, unlimited alerts, and AAdvantage award space monitoring across partners, the paid tiers start at $12 a month. See pricing
- Manual AAdvantage balance entry with Gmail-confirmed updates
- Daily Gmail sync to catch new deposits and upgrade certificates
- One active alert per program (balance change, certificate expiry)
- One active trip monitor for upgrade and award space tracking
- Read-only OAuth, with one-click revocation from your Google account
Questions
The answers AwardWallet refugees actually want.
No. MileIntel never asks for your aa.com password and never logs in to your AAdvantage account. We use Gmail OAuth (read-only) to parse the emails American Airlines already sends you: booking confirmations, mile-deposit receipts, AAdvantage account statements, and upgrade notifications. That is the entire surface area.
AA's terms restrict automated access to aa.com and the AAdvantage account portal. They do not restrict you reading your own email. MileIntel only reads messages American sends to your inbox, with your explicit Gmail permission. It is the same data you already see when you open Gmail. There is no scraping of aa.com involved.
AAdvantage is the headline use case because AwardWallet had to drop it, but the same Gmail parsing covers United MileagePlus, Delta SkyMiles, Alaska Mileage Plan, Southwest Rapid Rewards, JetBlue TrueBlue, and most major international carriers that send English-language confirmation emails. Hotel programs (Marriott Bonvoy, Hyatt, Hilton) are also parsed. Coverage of statement emails is best for US carriers right now.
Yes, the AAdvantage tracking is free on the Traveler tier: manual balance entry, daily Gmail sync, one alert per program, and one active trip. Paid tiers add multi-program automation, upgrade probability, award seat monitoring, and unlimited alerts. You can see the full breakdown on the pricing page.
AA cannot really block this without breaking their own customer emails. The emails they send you (statements, deposit receipts, upgrade notices) are the product. As long as American is emailing you, MileIntel can read those emails with your permission. If AA changes its email format, we update our parser, usually within a few days. We track parser health publicly.
Your AAdvantage balance updates whenever American emails you a statement or a mile-deposit confirmation, which is typically within a day of any activity. For activity that does not generate an email (manual transfers, status credit corrections), you can update the balance manually and MileIntel will hold it until the next email confirms a new number. There is no scraping fallback.
Not automatically yet. If you have a CSV export from AwardWallet, you can paste your last known balances into the wallet and MileIntel will treat them as the baseline. New activity from your inbox layers on top. A native AwardWallet CSV importer is on the roadmap.
MileIntel uses Google's OAuth flow, which gives us read-only access to messages we explicitly need, and never the ability to send, delete, or modify mail. We store parsed structured data (your AAdvantage number, balances, trip details) and discard the raw email bodies after parsing. You can revoke access from your Google account settings at any time, and request deletion of your stored data from the privacy page.
For automatic parsing, yes, currently Gmail is the only supported inbox. You can still use MileIntel without Gmail by entering AAdvantage balances manually and getting upgrade and award-space recommendations. The automation just turns off.
Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com support is in active development. iCloud Mail does not currently expose a reliable parsing API, so it may be a longer wait. If you live in Outlook, subscribe to The Mileage Run from the signup screen and we will let you know when it ships.
