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Old Jul 30, 2010, 5:01 pm
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Originally Posted by snowboarder
... states "No blackout dates on award travel on American Airlines, American Eagle and the AmericanConnection® carrier." But there are no blackout dates if you use the highest mileage awards so does this refer to lower award categories - ie. 12.5K economy and 25K business/first?
No Blackout Dates does not mean No Capacity Controls. This is an important distintinction which is true of all rewards programs, not only AAdvantage. No blackout dates is a trivial claim which means there are no dates on which AA has predetermined that no awad seats will be offered. There are still capacity controls. When the sAAver award inventory is depleted you will need to redeem for an AAnytime award.
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