Originally Posted by
javabytes
It doesn't really matter. If seats are selling, airlines have no reason to come down on prices. Any increase to the demand side of the equation works against you.
If you absolutely have to fly and absolutely cannot have the price go up, then by all means lock it in, but you're doing the opposite of helping the prices come down.
american flies something like half a billion seat segments per year. if you think booking two tickets is going to hamper your chances of an award ticket coming down in price, you go right ahead and wait.
I'd argue it's much more likely that some higherup exec at AA will read your post, and say to all his fellow execs 'they done figured us out, boys, we cant lower the price of award tickets NOW!'