Originally Posted by
bdlman
Yeah MIA is very far out of the way for that route. Your basically flying the entire eastern seaboard south. That is likely not a valid connection and would be a lot of flying time.
LAS has a lot of leisure passengers and very little business traffic except for conferences which very few people nowdays can probably expense First class. That is likely the reason, AA is just trying to stimulate people to buy the F seats which is very smart. Make it an attractive price to try to win someone who wasn't even considering F.
JFK-LAS is a great route to actually book F especially if you are non-elite and were gonna pay for luggage and on board drinks anyway.
I am pretty sure that JFK-MIA-LAS is a valid flight route/connection on AA as it comes up on the first page of flights when searching fares using the schedule/price matrix (I am assuming the computer would not return an invalid routing). That is what prompted my original question since it looks so strange-so cheap (relatively) for F fare on the two non stops versus any connection though MIA or LAX (which is what I saw on page 1 of the fares returned when searching JFK-LAS).