Well, kind of.

The thing I've noticed is AS is going through Deltification on some of their routes. Go see if you can find seats on a domestic redemption for less than 40K r/t on SEA-LAS- and that's a flight where you're paying less than $300 on advance fare. (And this is a route that AS plugs a lot as "25K to get to Vegas!")

Go see if you can find ANY transcons at 25K, other than maybe LAX-DCA.

Yeah, you can redeem on BA... and pay exorbitant YQ. KE and AF/KL are similar availability to DL. Really, a lot of the good value stuff is on partners... just like DL.

There are some things AS is good for (West Coast flights, Alaska), and I wouldn't put AS in the same bottom dwelling place as SkyPesos™ at all- but the trends are there, and the handwriting was on the wall once they went to a DL-style three tier system (which UA hasn't gone to, bless their black flabby hearts). As your signature says, things are getting terrible all over because the competition is disappearing right and left. And that includes AS: they just suck less and haven't "enhanced" as badly. But it's there all right.

I am thinking the mileage/elite gravy train that FT specializes in exploiting is gonna come to an end, thanks to competition being body snatched away and fuel prices exploding, plus the influence of airlines coining ersatz currency like Zimbabwe, so load up on gravy now and burn those miles; the gravy might not be there in a couple of years. Some places (UA) it might come to an end sooner than others (AS), but come to an end it will. We're all heading towards a future of DL and WN. But if the plane gets us to where we want to go and we get what we paid for, maybe figuring out a way to exploit it by spending extra time in a metal tube isn't as important.