Any chance AA doesn't succumb to variable award prices?
Apr 5, 2019, 1:43 pm
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Apr 5, 2019, 2:29 pm
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Of course they will. Has anything improved since the mergers? There may be three left but they are really one big airline now. Be prepared for more “enhancements” from management. Meanwhile, fellow inmates, enjoy your ride in the new Oasis cabin with your enhanced FF benefits!
Apr 5, 2019, 3:48 pm
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You can obtain an obscene amount of AA miles through a relatively easy churn of their Citi cards though. Throw Barclays in the mix too for a quick hit of 60,000 miles after spending nothing. Not that the average AA FFP member is doing the churn, but it's still a fair amount of people sucking up a lot of availability. So it's probably a wash.
Apr 5, 2019, 3:51 pm
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You can obtain an obscene amount of AA miles through a relatively easy churn of their Citi cards though. Throw Barclays in the mix too for a quick hit of 60,000 miles after spending nothing. Not that the average AA FFP member is doing the churn, but it's still a fair amount of people sucking up a lot of availability. So it's probably a wash.
Apr 5, 2019, 3:57 pm
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That’s not consumers getting anything more out of it, as extremely variable mileage ticket pricing (based on contemporaneously available regular paid revenue fares at time of attempted mileage ticket booking) would almost certainly bring that too — as it's part and parcel of how DL already does its thing.
Apr 5, 2019, 4:30 pm
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AS is already mostly variable for alaska airlines operated flights. Pick any route operated just by their metal, and you can get it for anywhere from 5000 to 60000 miles depending on date and time.
United was similar also already, so I don't see what the big deal is with removing what was already a variable chart. Already on holiday weekends a united flight was atleast 22500 - 32500 miles each way.
United was similar also already, so I don't see what the big deal is with removing what was already a variable chart. Already on holiday weekends a united flight was atleast 22500 - 32500 miles each way.
Apr 5, 2019, 4:33 pm
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Just for Main Cabin they've already got four price levels + an unpublished level (select dates that require a higher number of miles (in addition to Level 1 and 2 awards) -- with lousy availability in the lowest level. I don't see how variable pricing could be materially worse.
Apr 5, 2019, 5:14 pm
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I think they will definitely go dynamic/variable, but probably not for a year or more. They'll need to get Citibank to tighten or get rid of the mailer codes first to cut down on the number of bonus miles you can get (like Delta does with Amex Lifetime and UA with Chase 2-year).
Not that I want any of the "dynamic" stuff to go in.
Hilton was a massive devaluation (IMO), Delta was the worst (IMO). I mean seriously, 280,000 miles for 1 round trip from NY to Hawaii compared to 100k on United and 160k on AA (I think that's what AA currently is now, but I could be wrong--depends on if you get lie-flats or not).
Not that I want any of the "dynamic" stuff to go in.
Hilton was a massive devaluation (IMO), Delta was the worst (IMO). I mean seriously, 280,000 miles for 1 round trip from NY to Hawaii compared to 100k on United and 160k on AA (I think that's what AA currently is now, but I could be wrong--depends on if you get lie-flats or not).
Apr 5, 2019, 5:47 pm
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Of course they will. Has anything improved since the mergers? There may be three left but they are really one big airline now. Be prepared for more “enhancements” from management. Meanwhile, fellow inmates, enjoy your ride in the new Oasis cabin with your enhanced FF benefits!
Apr 5, 2019, 5:59 pm
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Apr 5, 2019, 6:03 pm
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Apr 5, 2019, 9:22 pm
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For sure AA will match (devalue) to UA. I know this won’t happen, but AA should figure some other new elite benefit as all will soon not have to pay close in booking fee, lol!