New AA Award Chart with Dynamic Pricing
#496
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Location: RDU <|> MMX
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As a one time occurance, on an award ticket no less, it is laughable to suggest that anything "bad" will happen by skipping the last segment.
When you land in DFW just pull up your reservation at aa.com and cancel it, no one will ever look at it again.
#498
Join Date: Mar 2010
Programs: AA, UA, Marriott
Posts: 1,486
If you dont initially enter a day with availability +/- 1 week, you can't open this view AFAIK. If someone has found a better way I would love to know too...
#499
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 1,589
Talk about variability.
So when I booked my AA flight it was 43k miles. Less than a minute later booked SO's ticket and it was 70.5. So I've been monitoring mostly daily to watch for price drops. It's been fluctuating mostly between 72.5 and 84.5 (every other day or thereabouts). Yesterday (once the website issues were resolved) I saw it for 69.5k. OK, go to reprice/rebook and had to do the two browser thing to "hold" while cancelling. When I went to buy the new ticket it repriced once more down to 43k. That's what the email says when I got it, so lucky me (I think). But wow, 43k to 84.5 (it's been as high as 94/95k as well). Still that's about 1/3 the price that UA wanted. (DL is almost as bad as UA now).
So when I booked my AA flight it was 43k miles. Less than a minute later booked SO's ticket and it was 70.5. So I've been monitoring mostly daily to watch for price drops. It's been fluctuating mostly between 72.5 and 84.5 (every other day or thereabouts). Yesterday (once the website issues were resolved) I saw it for 69.5k. OK, go to reprice/rebook and had to do the two browser thing to "hold" while cancelling. When I went to buy the new ticket it repriced once more down to 43k. That's what the email says when I got it, so lucky me (I think). But wow, 43k to 84.5 (it's been as high as 94/95k as well). Still that's about 1/3 the price that UA wanted. (DL is almost as bad as UA now).
#500
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Dallas, TX USA
Posts: 2,205
They actually enforce this on award tickets?
#503
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: AA Platinum, UA Gold, Bonvoy Platinum
Posts: 181
9K for economy, 100K for first RDU-LAX
9K-35k for economy, 100K for domestic first RDU-LAX. That's absurd for first. Sad to see that my miles are so worthless for domestic first though. For comparison, RDU-LHR in proper business class is 136k-271k. Cheaper than that if you connect but I'd aim for the single 7 hour flight.
#504
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: 06830
Programs: AA EXP 2MM HHonors Diamond
Posts: 399
Availability of business awards to Europe in March 2024
I was absolutely shocked to find four (4) U seats available for 57.5k miles each JFK-LHR-EDI in March. These mileage awards do exist.
Perhaps Scotland in March is not a popular itinerary.
Edited to add the important fact that these seats are on AA metal, so no YQ garbage.
Perhaps Scotland in March is not a popular itinerary.
Edited to add the important fact that these seats are on AA metal, so no YQ garbage.
Last edited by diaspora04; Sep 24, 2023 at 7:00 pm Reason: to add that these seats were on AA metal
#505
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9K-35k for economy, 100K for domestic first RDU-LAX. That's absurd for first. Sad to see that my miles are so worthless for domestic first though. For comparison, RDU-LHR in proper business class is 136k-271k. Cheaper than that if you connect but I'd aim for the single 7 hour flight.
#506
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Texas
Programs: PriorityPass, AA EXP, Hyatt Explorist, IHG Gold
Posts: 72
Since I didn't seen any wiki type things about this question (on this thread) nor could find it on searching the thread- is there any specific strategy/timing for finding cheapest AA award tickets? I assume not but just was curious because I was trying to search some AA metal award flights from TYO - IAH on about 2/24 - 2/26: A few weeks ago I thought I saw/was hopeful I saw a Premium Economy award ticket for only 50k miles, however I had to book it as regular economy for 33.5k miles (for 2/26, flights 176 HND-DFW and 2209 DFW-IAH) since I didn't have enough available miles (all 50k) at the time. Looking at PE award flights on 2/26 yesterday and today, and I think the cheapest are for 63k each now.
I spose I just have to hope/keep checking the award ticket booking site to see if it happens to go cheaper? And I also assume ExpertFlyer doesn't help anything regarding this type of pricing? (I have a Pro subscription there now but haven't tried their pricing stuff yet)
I spose I just have to hope/keep checking the award ticket booking site to see if it happens to go cheaper? And I also assume ExpertFlyer doesn't help anything regarding this type of pricing? (I have a Pro subscription there now but haven't tried their pricing stuff yet)
#507
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Since I didn't seen any wiki type things about this question (on this thread) nor could find it on searching the thread- is there any specific strategy/timing for finding cheapest AA award tickets? I assume not but just was curious because I was trying to search some AA metal award flights from TYO - IAH on about 2/24 - 2/26: A few weeks ago I thought I saw/was hopeful I saw a Premium Economy award ticket for only 50k miles, however I had to book it as regular economy for 33.5k miles (for 2/26, flights 176 HND-DFW and 2209 DFW-IAH) since I didn't have enough available miles (all 50k) at the time. Looking at PE award flights on 2/26 yesterday and today, and I think the cheapest are for 63k each now.
I spose I just have to hope/keep checking the award ticket booking site to see if it happens to go cheaper? And I also assume ExpertFlyer doesn't help anything regarding this type of pricing? (I have a Pro subscription there now but haven't tried their pricing stuff yet)
I spose I just have to hope/keep checking the award ticket booking site to see if it happens to go cheaper? And I also assume ExpertFlyer doesn't help anything regarding this type of pricing? (I have a Pro subscription there now but haven't tried their pricing stuff yet)
#508
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Texas
Programs: PriorityPass, AA EXP, Hyatt Explorist, IHG Gold
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Dynamic pricing is exactly that, dynamic. It can and will change from day to day, especially for an itinerary like that that is still months away. And you are correct that EF doesn't help for award pricing changes. Also just FYI, AA offers free 5 day holds on all awards, and you do not need all the miles in your account to put an itinerary on hold. So you could have put the Premium Economy award on hold when you saw it for 50k, then secure the requisite number of miles in 5 days, then go back and ticket it.
And yeah unfortunately I didn't want to spend extra money/purchases on miles within the 5day hold period, as I had planned flights/BAAH hotel stays 2-3 weeks after I saw the initial 50k PE pricing, and instead just bought the regular economy for placeholder flight.
Guess I'll play the daily refresh looking game to see if I get the nice 50k PE price or just bite bullets and spend more for current(/future) increased price on it, or be an uncomfortable pleb and stay in main cabin
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#509
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Stilllwater OK (SWO)
Programs: AAdvantage ExecPlat, World of Hyatt Globalist, plain "member" of Marriott, IHG, enterprise, etc.
Posts: 1,895
9K-35k for economy, 100K for domestic first RDU-LAX. That's absurd for first. Sad to see that my miles are so worthless for domestic first though. For comparison, RDU-LHR in proper business class is 136k-271k. Cheaper than that if you connect but I'd aim for the single 7 hour flight.
I did just book (for me, my spouse, and kid) a IAD-DFW-SWO return in domestic F for just 19.5K miles. I think the Y cabin was 14.5K for that leg. I'd much prefer DCA vs IAD, but every F award out of DCA was ~55K miles+ for that date.
#510
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Since I didn't seen any wiki type things about this question (on this thread) nor could find it on searching the thread- is there any specific strategy/timing for finding cheapest AA award tickets? I assume not but just was curious because I was trying to search some AA metal award flights from TYO - IAH on about 2/24 - 2/26: A few weeks ago I thought I saw/was hopeful I saw a Premium Economy award ticket for only 50k miles, however I had to book it as regular economy for 33.5k miles (for 2/26, flights 176 HND-DFW and 2209 DFW-IAH) since I didn't have enough available miles (all 50k) at the time. Looking at PE award flights on 2/26 yesterday and today, and I think the cheapest are for 63k each now.
I spose I just have to hope/keep checking the award ticket booking site to see if it happens to go cheaper? And I also assume ExpertFlyer doesn't help anything regarding this type of pricing? (I have a Pro subscription there now but haven't tried their pricing stuff yet)
I spose I just have to hope/keep checking the award ticket booking site to see if it happens to go cheaper? And I also assume ExpertFlyer doesn't help anything regarding this type of pricing? (I have a Pro subscription there now but haven't tried their pricing stuff yet)
Of course, periodically check to see if it's opened up, got don't get discouraged if you don't see anything until 2 weeks out. Do a search for the next 2 weeks to see what I'm talking about... it's wide open.
It's also possible that AA metal J space opens up for 60k miles but that's a lot more rare.