Originally Posted by
Fanjet
BA already raised their redemption levels for North America (the sub-3000 mile flights), either last year or early this year. AA would just be catching up. Also, I think J and F awards are the ones which are going to take a hit. But there may be some really good Y redemptions. Even DL (which has rediculous J award pricing) offers a lot of domestic award flights between 2.5K and 10K miles each way. In fact, a booked a US-Europe RT award with DL a couple of years ago for something like 36K or 38K miles... in the late spring/early summer. Yeah, I know... intl coach travel. The horror!!!

DL has seasonal (10/24-11/17, 11/21-12/14, and 12/25-4/7) roundtrip coach awards to LHR/MAD/BCN for 32K right now from many markets. It's primarily the business class awards to Europe that have increased (low-level went from 160K roundtrip to 210K roundtrip -- although there are some seasonal 160K roundtrip D1 awards on JFK-LHR route).