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Old Apr 3, 2016, 9:42 pm
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AA: JFK-LAX $255 r/t; now $240-248

Stumbled upon this guy

https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...=ONEWORLD;eo=e

There are 3 segments <500 miles. That means two things: a) bonus (minimum 500 EQM) and b) flying in a better seat since those are complimentary upgradeable. Meh.

$256 for 6264 EQM @ 4cpm (not bad considering it's a SATURDAY!)
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Old Apr 3, 2016, 11:02 pm
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Shows $332 for me. $252 for other routing. :/
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Old Apr 4, 2016, 10:11 am
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Price went down, $252 right now for same day turnaround.

You can always play with the dates, plenty of availability under $260 for same day MRs.
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Old Apr 4, 2016, 1:01 pm
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Not working, reprices on aa.com to $327 when you progress through the purchase
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Old Apr 4, 2016, 3:41 pm
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Nobody doing their homework
click here
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Old Apr 4, 2016, 3:59 pm
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Originally Posted by tomasdev
Nobody doing their homework
click here
This reprices to $327 when you click through the Travelers page.
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Old Apr 4, 2016, 6:39 pm
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Old Apr 4, 2016, 11:10 pm
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AA: LAX-JFK on May 3,4 10,11 RT for $240-248

First post here, this is what I found on google flights. Same day return.

https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-03;a=ONEWORLD
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Old Apr 5, 2016, 11:05 am
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lol the mod that merged your thread and mine, didn't realize LAX-JFK rt is not the same as JFK-LAX rt :P
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Old Apr 5, 2016, 11:41 am
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lol the mod that merged your thread and mine, didn't realize LAX-JFK rt is not the same as JFK-LAX rt :P
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Old Apr 6, 2016, 4:46 pm
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Originally Posted by tomasdev
There are 3 segments <500 miles. That means two things: a) bonus (minimum 500 EQM)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not accurate. On segments <500 miles, you receive the actual miles as EQM and bonus RDM make up the difference. I just flew MKE-ORD yesterday (62 miles) and I received 62 EQM and a bonus of 938 miles (1000 mile minimum for platinum).
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Old Apr 6, 2016, 5:04 pm
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not accurate. On segments <500 miles, you receive the actual miles as EQM and bonus RDM make up the difference. I just flew MKE-ORD yesterday (62 miles) and I received 62 EQM and a bonus of 938 miles (1000 mile minimum for platinum).
aaaaahhh thanks! i never fully understood this one.
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Old Apr 6, 2016, 5:22 pm
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AA JFK-LAX
$230 r/t same day Apr 27, May 7, 11, 18
$237 r/t same day May 17
$229 r/t same day-ish May 2-3 (link)

UA EWR-LAX
$200 r/t same day Apr 12,26 May 3,4,10,11
$200 r/t one-night Apr 19-20, 26-27
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Old Apr 6, 2016, 7:55 pm
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Originally Posted by VisaW
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not accurate. On segments <500 miles, you receive the actual miles as EQM and bonus RDM make up the difference. I just flew MKE-ORD yesterday (62 miles) and I received 62 EQM and a bonus of 938 miles (1000 mile minimum for platinum).
When did you fly? My wife just flew RDU-DCA r/t (3/8-3/12) as a gold member. The actual miles are 227 each way. She got 1,000 eqm's for the r/t (500 each way) and 1,250 miles (500+25% bonus, each way)

Sorry, I just saw you said you flew yesterday. Did this change April 1st or something??

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Old Apr 6, 2016, 8:24 pm
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Originally Posted by VisaW
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not accurate. On segments <500 miles, you receive the actual miles as EQM and bonus RDM make up the difference. I just flew MKE-ORD yesterday (62 miles) and I received 62 EQM and a bonus of 938 miles (1000 mile minimum for platinum).
I believe this is incorrect. There's a thread over in the AA forum (can't find it right now) that details how whatever system AA has to calculate this has been messed up recently. AA is aware of the issue and is going to be rerunning the calculations in batches.

So EQM minimum is still 500 miles, it's just not being calculated correctly right now.
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