Originally Posted by
bse118
Not all ridiculous. Quite the opposite, more flexibility in IROPs is always a good things. Being able to have more flight options through the app/website instead of having to call is a good thing.
Nothing forcing you to pick the outlying airports if you can't make the logistics work.
I and/or family members have been bailed out of IROPs a few times this year on both UA and AA by this wide definition of alternate airports.
For IRROPS, sure.
But you now get the same list of airports when searching for award travel using the AA app and have no way of filtering out the “far away” airports.
If I search for DCA LGA in the app do I really want to see results for PHL LGA? Definitely not.
At a minimum they need to give me the option of filtering like they do on the desktop site.