Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
Awards are dynamically priced and with different access requirements. Some members can get a lower price than others but this latest change is clear that you will see just one offer for a particular itin-- the concept of saver and standard / everyday for the same itin is gone and the idea of a fixed price award levels are gone. Yes, some might be at the previous saver level or even lower but it is dynamic and can range -- and different folks (such as based on status) will get different offers. To continue to call a "lower pricing" a saver just confuses the matter and infer things no longer true -- a fixed award chart. As we can see UA is not using that term on the flight search (remnants may exist in some documentation but we all know that exists for other items -- old, dated documentation).
This is not true for I/IN on UA metal. I have yet to see a single instance where this is dynamic. I am paying the same amount of miles to Europe every single time, no matter what and where as long as it is I/IN and no matter if this is from my account or my wife's account (gold) or father's account (no status). The same is also true for e.g. LX and LH (just more than UA, but the same every single time). So while there is UA metal variability upwards and for Y also potentially downwards ... for J I am not seeing at all that fixed award levels are gone. I just booked 10 tickets tonight ... and all were at the exactly same level,