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Old May 5, 2006 | 7:25 am
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Originally Posted by Brandy
Your comment rests on the wrong assumption that MilesAAver Awards have the SAME quantity of seats AND they are offered in the SAME frequency as the AAnytime Awards. They are not.

Have encountered many situations on the EXACT SAME request crieteria, where NO availability under MilesAAver but their IS availability under AAnytime Awards.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Different award levels have different availability for the EXACT SAME requested crieteria.

WHY DOES AA DO THIS?

Same seat can be sold for a higher price (More Miles Required). Hold off on offering MilesAAver awards, when you can get people to pay up with MORE miles on AAnytime awards.

Any way you look at this, it is inflation.

Given AA's Yield Management IT capabilities, this was easy to implement.
What in the world are you talking about? Your comments have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with what is being discussed. FWAA is saying, why would one redeem a coach AAnytime award for 70,000 miles when a business class MilesAAver reward is available for 60,000 miles?
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