Originally Posted by
guv1976
This is very much a YMMV situation. I retired to a university town, and on November 17, I can fly from ITH to SEA for 10,000 miles on the fastest (single-connection) itinerary, or 6,000 miles for the slower, double-connection itinerary. The cash price for each is just over $200, so you'd get 2¢/mile on the fast connection, and 3.3¢/mile on the slower one. But on November 19, both cash and mileage fares on that route are much higher, and you'd get poor value with a mileage redemption.
Well, if this is a YMMV, I am curious as to why people aren't seeing dynamic pricing like I am. Every thread like this people fear fully dynamic awards, and I am befuddled at how they don't consider the current set up fully dynamic where a three day period more than a month out has a 10 fold change in mileage redemption.
I do about 2 award tickets a year and it's a major effort finding a mileage redemption that won't make my wife kill me when I tell her the itinerary.