Originally Posted by
mediator
Not for the two-cabin F. The two-cabin F used to be the double of the Y.
True domestic 2 class F has always been 3X since the creation of Avios. For some international destinations (Caribbean, Canada, Mexico, and Cent. America) AA markets the front cabin on a two class flight as business -- for these destinations the avios cost has always been 2X. Is this what you are thinking of?
Of course, when one purchases and flies F on AA 2 class domestic one earns Tier Points as if the flight was a true first class (3 or 4 class) flight.
See also:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...us-canada.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...rst-class.html
And from when the Avios scheme was created Nicci supplied this answer:
•How about the great disparity with the so-called F awards on domestic routes with AA? BAEC is charging F for what is really a business or Club Europe product. Anyone knows that it is not worth 3x the points to take a short-haul in domestic F on AA. It is now cheaper to go F/business to the Caribbean or to Canada than it is to take a domestic F flight within the USA.
This will not change under the relaunch – the agreement we have with AA is that this is an F cabin and we should charge as agreed for an F award. I will feed this back though.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/17514113-post2.html