Originally Posted by
olouie
The future is this but not in a good way. Mileage redemptions are just going to be whatever they tell you it is without any standard to compare against so lax-nyc could be 80,000 miles, 150,000 miles or 1,200,000 miles on any given day and that’s just what it is. Come back hours or days later and it will change again. That’s pure dynamic pricing.
Right, which is exactly the way airlines have been pricing cash tickets for years. Why should award tix be any different? In fact, this is basically what they are doing now - most redemptions have little correlation to a static award chart.