Originally Posted by
moondog
No, AA has been charging more than MU for as long as I can remember (same goes for BR). Back in early days of the MU flight (when MU was a really dreadful airline), you could fly to Shanghai and back for less than $500 if you booked the MU flight number through a bucket shop. Since I was an AA loyalist at the time, I always checked AA as well, but had a hard time getting fares under $800.
Actually, BR's and AA's price differential isn't much in J, but then again I travel transpacific in J, not Y so I suspect that the CO/AA flight numbers for BR still price out much higher in Y.
As for the other buckets I was referring to, I can imagine if AA sold the V bucket for example, that would probably come out to $1000 - $1200. Still higher than the $750 I saw one time, but definitely a lot better than the $2800 in in the Y bucket AA seems to be selling nowadays.