Originally Posted by
javabytes
You’re correct that every passenger on the same PNR will have the same price for the ticket.
You’ll never know the impact of booking a ticket until you actually do it (or at least put it on hold). Only then will you be able to see the pricing for any subsequent ticket(s) you want to book.
Just because it says 7.5k if you search for 1 pax, and 9k if you search for 2 pax, doesn’t necessarily mean that after you book one pax at 7.5k, if you go to book one more it will be 9k (or 10.5k or any other number you previously saw).
There are also very recent examples where AA has filed fares that offer lower pricing if booking for two or more passengers, and higher fares if booking for just one passenger. These examples were on the cash side, but there is no reason similar rule conditions can’t be applied on the award side too.
What I'm saying is that, by iteration, it appeared to me that internally the first ticket was 7.5, second 8.5, and third 9.5, and whatever tickets you book will each be the average of the underlying fares.
I had wondered if there might be some kind of discontinuity which would make it best to have an optimal strategy, something like "First two tickets 10K, next two 20K, each ticket costs the max miles" in which case the best strategy would be to book the third ticket separate from the others. In this limited experiment, that didn't seem to be the case.