I am glad I signed all of us up for American Airlines AAdvantage accounts this year because they have been running lots of promos for free miles. Courtesy of FW, join the American Airlines eShopping portal (Link) and receive 500 free miles. Watch the video, explaining the site, and receive an additional 500 free miles.

Step 1. Set up your profile below and opt-in to receive special offer emails.*

Step 2. After you enroll, you will automatically be directed to the AAdvantage eShoppingSM video demo. Press “Play” to view the video demo and earn an additional 500 bonus miles!**

*You must create an AAdvantage eShoppingSM account on this page and opt-in to receive special offer emails from AAdvantage eShoppingSM by 5/13/2011 to earn an aditional 500 American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles. AAdvantage® bonus miles will post to the member’s AAdvantage® account within 8 to 10 weeks after 5/13/2011. This offer is not valid for existing AAdvantage eShoppingSM members. Your AAdvantage eShoppingSM account must be open and set to receive special offer emails at the time of the awarding of AAdvantage® bonus miles in order to earn the 500 AAdvantage® miles bonus.

**You must view the AAdvantage eShoppingSM video demo by 5/13/2011 to earn an additional 500 American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles. In order to be eligible for the additional 500 AAdvantage® bonus miles, you must view the AAdvantage eShoppingSM video demo by clicking the “Submit and Watch Video Demo” button on this enrollment page. AAdvantage® bonus miles will post to the member’s AAdvantage® account within 8 to 10 weeks after 5/13/2011. This offer is not valid for existing AAdvantage eShoppingSM members.

Unfortunately, I had already signed myself up for AA eShopping shortly after joining AAdvantage. However, I was able to add a quick and easy 1,000 miles to each of my wife and son’s accounts.

In honor of American Airlines new service out of LAX, they have a promotional page set up with a fortune cookies challenge. After you go to the promotion page, you will click “Don’t Have a Code?” under the Promotion Code box, then enter in a security code and an email address.

If you are an instant winner, you will then be prompted to enter in your AAdvantage number.

Let me first say this promotion can take a lot of effort. The reason being is that in my instance, it took me lots of fake email addresses several times all day today. There has been discussion about which promotion codes work and which do not. In my case, random generating the code never worked. I finally used 0A58C, and still after around 100 tries this afternoon managed to score 500, 200, 200, and 1,000 points for all our accounts. Our big winner was the newest member to the frequent flyer community, our newborn. Pretty good for only being six weeks old!

If you do not win on the first try with a valid email address, you will need to start making them up. I just used various variations of my email addresses, most of them being fake. Another thing I learned today is that if you have a gmail account, you can move around the periods anywhere in the email address and it will still work. Good to know for instances like this, although I ran out of options this morning very quickly after trying it probably 50 times.