Originally Posted by
Austin787
Several key dates that led to AAdvantage downfall over the years:
December 9, 2013: takeover by merger with US Airways closed
April 8, 2014: stopovers eliminated, Anytime Award prices raised (with no notice)
March 22, 2016: many sAAver award prices raised
May 11, 2016: Suzanne Rubin announces resignation
August 1, 2016: earnings become spend based
January 1, 2017: PQD added
When did awards become revenue based (even though they don't admit it)?
For example, the day I was looking at, there were 3 flights from FLL to ORD where they were giving away tickets at $109, 7+ savers available on each flight. Schedule change comes out, cancel 2 flights, jack rates on the last flight left, and 0 award tickets available. 7 people didn't book award tickets on that last flight. It's the price increase. And you can see it across routes everywhere - some routes the cutoff is between $100-$150 where they take all the availability away, some its $200-$250, but there's a pattern here. If they're going to do this they should go to a full WN revenue based redemption program instead of hidden hard stops. 1.8 pts/$ at 1.7 cents guarantees me 3 cents on WN (double when I had companion pass!) Good luck finding those $300+, 12.5k domestic saver awards!