Originally Posted by
aCavalierInCoach
This change is a disaster, period. I thought the partner award chart would be the saving grace here but unfortunately this change entirely breaks the ability to book mixed itineraries. For instance, NH has availability LAX-HND-CTS for 35k, but because SFO-LAX is priced at 17k on its own instead of the lowest level, the .bomb can't even assemble the itinerary under a single booking.
The effective price increase we are already seeing is, in my experience, a 2-3x hit and a commensurate devaluation.
Huh?
If you're seeing a 17K price, presumably it's not a saver award, so it was never going to be combinable with the LAX-HND-CTS award at the 35K level. Is this flight before or after November 15? Keep in mind that these changes don't even go into effect until then.
You should be able to book this itinerary for 52K using multi-city search, if you're so inclined. That's worse than 35K, but not 2-3x worse.