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Old Oct 5, 2004, 12:46 pm
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LLZ
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
The part confuses me is 90,000 miles for a business class award ticket to Europe. But now, one could easily end up spending 50,000 miles + $500 + $600+ for an economy ticket upgraded. To me-- the non-differentiation between "discount" and "deep discount" fares in assessing this fee is something that will have to be revisited (at least I hope so.)
I guess they could always make those 90K award impossible to get....while they are a roll....

Guess we gotta wait and see tomorrow. I really hope AA took a measured approach to this, as they have in the past with changes, and that these fees are only going to apply to the deep discounted fares.
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