Originally Posted by
scubadu
I'm generally a tightwad, but even I don't think 5K is a "reasonable" premium for PE over standard economy. If you are hoping for that, I think you are likely to be disappointed.
Regards
45k miles in at least one program get me TATL business class one-way, so I wouldn’t find a 10k-20k premium — meaning 40k-50k AA miles for TATL PE — to be all that reasonable. Especially if AA ends up doing to PE award availability what it has done to TATL economy award availability: marrying it mostly to rip-off YQ/fuel surcharges by gutting availability on AA metal and hoping to get customers to pay AA YQ for BA flights; and using the multi-tier pricing to gut the availability at the lowest mileage prices.
Toss in AA’s use of married segment logic to game award availability/pricing, and I’m not holding much hope that AA is going to do anything really rewarding for me with the upcoming award chart revisions and award travel booking overall.
What will happen is that TATL economy awards will drop from 30k to 10/15/20k to match what BA charges now. The caveat? Good luck finding availability on a non-BA flight to avoid YQ. PE will be priced at 30k.
I would be surprised if AA were to be even that “generous”, but I would welcome that.