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Originally Posted by
guv1976
What you're not mentioning is that BA award pricing (and AA award pricing for partners) is static. AA award pricing for AAdvantage members is dynamic. So yes, an AA award member can always get a Business Class seat to Tokyo, but might have to pay 450,000 miles for it:
450k for a one-way flight in J? There are only 3 seats left at that price - you better hurry up and book before they're gone! This brings back memories of an interview on FlyerTalk with the then-chief of AAdvantage some 20 years ago, back when there were SAAver awards (what most people would consider regular awards), and AAnytime awards that could be used to select up to the very last seat of revenue inventory. The AAdvantage guy said only half-way tongue-in-cheek: "Every seat is an award seat."
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