Originally Posted by JJeffrey

AA is in fact doing away with the traditional sAAVer and AAnytime awards. If you're seeing the traditional award space open through 12/31 then nothing after that then it could be related. This is uncharted territory, traditionally rolling over into a new year was no different than any other day in terms of award space opening up.

I'm guessing that would run you upwards of 5M miles total for everyone's roundtrip.