but if you’re thinking of the “good ole days” when there was fixed pricing based on a pie in the sky award chart with sAAver and AAnytime lists, those days are long gone.
Ive been flying since '93 but at the start it was all on us air, not american.
was there EVER 'good ole days of fixed pricing'? yes, there was an award chart. HOWEVER when you punch in dates for a ticket you were presented with a ton of options almost always starting out at or even under the 'official award chart price' all they way up to ridiculous numbers of multiples of the award price. it was NEVER (as far back as Ive traveled) fixed pricing for aa metal.