Originally Posted by
tth6133
As an example, JX currently makes some additional awards available to AS at the non-saver level. Those would be priced higher than the saver award on the same flight. Another example is in the JV that DL has with some of its partners. Many of those partner awards are dynamically priced non-saver awards, because they share information on underlying cash fares among them.
Not really how it works with DL. DL no longer has separate partner metal award levels to/from US and Canada as of Fall 2022 (except for WS). When a partner releases award inventory to DL (which only have a single award class for each cabin), it will just price into the lowest level applicable DL metal award based on award level advance purchase requirements, roundtrip booking requirements, seasonality requirements, day/time requirements, etc. So yes DL awards on partner metal are truly dynamic, but it is due to the differing DL award fare rule requirements for their different award mileage levels (not due to the partners sharing anything beyond simple award inventory availability). DL award levels are now also route specific to/from US/Canada (so there are different levels for JFK-LHR, JFK-CDG, DTW-LHR, etc and cheapest mileage levels out of hostage hubs will generally be higher than competitive hubs like JFK -- just like revenue fares ).
DL metal award levels will both rely on meeting award fare rule requirements, as well as having award bucket level inventory availability since they have multiple award buckets for their own metal -- for example OJ/OC/OD/OI/OZ buckets for D1 awards (similar to J/C/D/I/Z buckets for D1 revenue fares).