Originally Posted by
lrdpenn
I agree it’s ridiculous. Annoying and fills the award search with clutter, useless options, and false minimums if they are lower cost.
New NYC alternates include PHL and ABE.
New LAX options include SBA
Maybe during IROPS it’s helpful if you’re really desperate. But when searching for flights it’s not helpful. I mean ABE from NYC and SBA from LAX??
Originally Posted by
coleslaw
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.
Originally Posted by
LlamaJesus
Also noticed this on award searches the last day or two and agreed it’s a bit ridiculous, at least for the northeast. Any filtering options at all would be nice.
Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
This is true however AA has definitely been playing with their programming at aa.com over the past 2 days with regards to the "include nearby airports" functionality of an award search.
Yesterday and today I've noticed aa.com is defaulting to select the "include nearby airports" for every award search. It didn't used to be like this AFAIK..
In that case, minor annoyance yes.
Still nothing forcing you to pick the outlying airports for the actual flights.
And I'd imagine it will be like a lot of changes to AA app / .com functionality where their idea of testing seems to be just throw it in the live version and see what happens, and eventually it will settle in to something more useful.