Originally Posted by
asf-07
With the move to fully dynamic award pricing (and no such thing as "sAAver" award inventory anymore), have the Plan Ahead BXPs become more or less a thing of the past? Or have I missed some updates/discussion?
used one on a flight since the announcement but it was like hunting for unicorns to find a flight with "T" award availability for a free coach domestic flight. thank God for Expertflyer, otherwise i'd have taken days searching AA.com. Conservatively, I'd estimate way less than 1 % of all flights on all days are available. Maybe like 1/4 of 1%. Entire blocks consecutive days in a row, day after day at a time with zero sAAver/T flight availability.
Have to be creative. Was hoping with elimination of saver they'd loosen up rules for BXPs but they haven't