Absolutely agree- 100%

The question was asked:
and I answered:
and linked to info that I know for certain is a coming AAdv change.

But very very true that there's no way for me to know what the agent was referring to and how much of it was this, although with he OP's clarification above, I think I, for one, can see why this agent might have thought this was a -somewhat- pertinent way to change the subject a bit :)

I remember the LIT-NRT calls. I would think that XNA-PVG would be more successful.

XNA-PEK. Since PEK is the real cash cow!

Either one works. I've found the major manufacturing centers are more likely to be a larger in and around Shanghai. Although Tianjin is no slouch.

No actual reason to assume any of that.

Unlimited Coke Zeros.

Speaking only for myself (but many others, I suspect) - I have no issues with the segment availability - it's combining available segments into an available trip that kills me.

Umm... because this is FT and probably about +90% of content in these forums is nothing but pure speculation?

Regards

Hope they allow redeeming PE on partners at reasonable rates after the change.

To add to this dream list-
Ability to book a R/T ticket with one direction using awards and the other paid in cash. That would be a game changer for me, at least

Before making suggestions that AA emulate another airline, please learn how that airline actually works.

WN does have capacity control on awards, it's just that they're the same as the capacity controls on the lowest paid fares. The moment the lowest paid fares sell out, awards at WN jump to a much higher level.

If AA were to do that, what you'd see is awards at the current level only book Basic Economy, and once Basic Economy sells out, they jump way up in price. Is that what you really want??? :confused;

Remember, WN is a single-cabin open-seating airline, so any "copying" of a WN policy by AA would undoubtedly be greatly modified by AA to fit AA's multi-class system.

So please be careful what wish for, because a totally distorted form of it may come true (since what you wish for cannot come true in the form you wish it without AA becoming a single-cabin open-seating airline).

That's not the only problem. In addition to capacity controls, revenue fare rules on WN also apply to award travel. For example, looking at HOU-LAX just now, I see that that the lowest one-way fare is $70, but it's only available if you book at least 7 days in advance. For close-in bookings, the fare jumps to $592 (full fare) because of the fare rules, regardless of whether or not the lower-fare buckets "sold out." That's more or less a 700% surcharge for bookings less than a week out, and because of how Rapid Rewards is structured, that applies equally to award redemptions. As has already been said: be careful what you wish for.

Like the reported "training" that began 9 months ago? :rolleyes:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-w-pe-j-f.html

New fare class: D-MR.
If AA suspects you are on a paid Business mileage run, earning will be:
EQM: estimated distance from your house to your departing airport
EQD: average cost of a gallon of milk between your city pairs

Nope. I am not wasting any time thinking about a possible change that may or may not come at some unspecified time in the future. I will think about such a change when/if it is announced. In the meantime I will just go about my business as usual - which in the current moment is sweating out a Y-->J SWU request for a longhaul on this coming Monday to see if my track record of never missing an SWU request continues....

Exactly.... That's kinda why I've been shopping AA for a PE fare out of SFO to ICN for next month. Fae wise, the SFO-DFW-ICN route is winning for the dates I've searched for. No PE fares showing despite the DFW-ICN leg has PE seating. Hmmmm...

That link got broken somehow; easy enough to manually clean up though, here it is.

For those wondering, it's JDiver reporting a rumor of exactly our fears, and noting it's totally unverified. And also noting JonNYC disagrees.

So weird....now when I click the link that's in the quoted part of my own post, it works....but still, clicking the link in JonNYC's original post gives a 404 (b/c obvious double-pasting of URL). If it always worked for everybody else, my apologies for an unnecessary post.

this.

No point worrying. That said, I'm not holding onto SWUs and miles indefinitely with the expectation that they appreciate. Enjoy it while it is there.

My view: AA already "fixed" any internal issue with SWU Y-J by making them hard to confirm until the very last second. Getting rid of them would be a disaster for the program that targets the higher spenders. By making them basically-impossible to use in advance, they provide better value to AA by simply taking seats they couldn't sell.

Bravo.

Imagine if one planned their SWU usage etc around posts like this, last year?

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/29687867-post103.html

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...l#post29692247

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/29682223-post52.html

So you ask a question on an internet discussion forum and are surprised when someone answers? OK then...

Point being it's entertaining to read some of these rumor threads. They don't give me (or anyone, really) any actionable info, so I don't change my behavior based on them.

They will probably make it the same as the current business, price business as the current first, and increase first

Hi Zacnlinc! Hope you are well..

I think the issue is not with the actual DFW-ICN PE portion, but rather the SFO-DFW segment as it is not PE and it reverts to Y. Unfortunately sometimes I think AA IT systems has problems handling this. Go figure!

No

The fact that their is one program with a 45K award for TATL business does not mean that AA will benchmark based on that one, lowest cost data point. Again, you all can wish/hope for whatever you like, then come here and complain about it later when what they announce is, you know... not that. I'm just saying if people think AA is going to price PE @ 35K when standard economy is 30K, they are likely to be disappointed.

I think the discussion/rumor/speculation is simply that AA is going to announce premium economy award charts. I don't think anyone (certainly not me) is implying that all the sudden it's going to turn into the land of milk and honey with more award availability. Has anyone implied that? My assumption is that PE awards will likely be as scarce and hard to obtain as any other AA award, relatively speaking.

Regards

I did report that rumor. And

The rumored 77W FAT-SZX flight starting this summer is also a rumor without any verification or hard data. ;)

The thread link is https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-w-pe-j-f.html

I'm waiting for the Fresno to Fukuoka service....