There's no question that airlines should have been forced to honor the implications of their advertising, by making awards available at saaver levels on every flight. But that battle was lost a long time ago. Now awards are released only to fill seats that would go empty; and AA does not need to make saaver awards available in order to fill seats. That's how it is.

All that is 'new' under so-called dynamic pricing is that saaver award pricing can vary. But not releasing any saaver awards, and pricing aanytime awards dynamically, is effectively the same thing.