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Old Jun 21, 2015 | 3:03 pm
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Originally Posted by 3Cforme
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Again, I think you've found evidence of AA's rollout of the previously announced fifth tier of award pricing. If (and I think the evidence is compelling) AA's systems are impaired by caching/database sync issues, the simple presence of more tiers of award prices will mean more transaction (defined as search results thru to issued ticket at the same award mileage) failures.
Yep. The agent I spoke with yesterday implied that was exactly what was affecting my award gift requiring 90,000 miles per person HNL-DFW-PHL ("that's because they're Thanksgiving week"). That was certainly not what was showing on the award availability table on aa.com for selection.
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