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Old Jul 8, 2024 | 1:51 pm
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Originally Posted by JJeffrey
The only advantage of booking roundtrip is that sometimes there can be a slight savings on the award pricing when booking r/t versus 2 one-ways. But to and from Europe I haven't seen any savings like this in a while. You just have to search and play around with the pricing.

That said, I always book one-ways for the flexibility. Now that AA does not allow any changes on AA-only awards you severely limit your options by booking roundtrip, you cannot change just the outbound or return, you have to cancel everything and start over.
The savings can be more than "slight". I've seen more and more instances of it recently (especially for international), and booking two one-ways has priced out up to 40-50% more than the same flights combined into a round trip award.
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