Please. Not nice, and completely uncalled for. Do you know a lot of other retail merchants who tell you before they raise their prices? I don't. Perhaps you'd like AA to have telephoned everyone who had a DONEx or AONEx not yet ticketed to tell them of the pending increase?

Perhaps you should have bought your AONE4 a couple of months ago when they were selling at US$5,700 or so. I bought two at that price, -- no way it was going to stay at that level for long, and, in fact, it didn't.

I did have one reserved but not purchased just before the summer price increase. When I was talking with the AA RTW desk to change some flights, they told me that there was a rumor going around their office of a rate hike that night at midnight. I bought immediately, and, sure enough, prices went up overnight.

I saw several posts over the past few weeks in various fora speculating that due to the decline of the ZAR, there was bound to be a price increase. IMO, OW4U had no obligation to act contrary to his employer's interests by telling us.