AA Dynamic Pricing Run Amok - 6k Miles Award to SYD/AKL - wow
Nov 11, 2019, 7:43 pm
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Nov 11, 2019, 10:59 pm
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Nov 11, 2019, 11:16 pm
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Nov 12, 2019, 4:03 am
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Award Search Broken
The award search on AA.com appears to be completely down this morning. Could they be fixing something that is giving us super low dynamic pricing? Yesterday a $194 cash fare was only 5K in miles, which seems too low.
Nov 12, 2019, 9:29 am
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Maybe you can find a uni-sex toilet someday on the aircraft.
Nov 12, 2019, 10:30 am
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I just booked 3 one day nonstop MIA-SEA tickets for 5k per piece, which would have been over $200 per person in main cabin, amazing value. That isn't Sydney I know, but over .04 per mile in coach, with 3 seats available, and nonstop, that is a great value. So it is definitely still working.
Nov 12, 2019, 12:05 pm
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I just booked 3 one day nonstop MIA-SEA tickets for 5k per piece, which would have been over $200 per person in main cabin, amazing value. That isn't Sydney I know, but over .04 per mile in coach, with 3 seats available, and nonstop, that is a great value. So it is definitely still working.
The bloggers only recently picked up on all this, and they seem to have instantly dubbed these mistake fares. Unfortunately, most bloggers don't have any "insider knowledge," so their speculation just ended up confusing everyone.
Nov 12, 2019, 12:09 pm
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Nov 15, 2019, 9:51 pm
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There are some aa webspecials for AA83 LAX-AKL in economy for 33k AA miles in late Nov/early Dec. That’s pretty cheap. Looking on expertflyer there seems to lots of empty seats in economy so maybe you could lie down on a row of three.