American Airlines is making major changes to its loyalty program in 2023. The changes affect both the status arm of the program and award redemptions for travel on American Airlines flights.
Let’s go over the upcoming changes to award redemptions on American Airlines flights, which is set to join the suite of fully dynamic loyalty programs at some point in 2023.
Dynamic Pricing on American Airlines Reward Flights
American Airlines has announced that its AAdvantage loyalty program will become fully dynamic in 2023. Dynamic pricing will only affect award flights on American Airlines flights booked with AAdvantage miles.
As we’ve seen with many loyalty programs in the recent past, the move away from fixed pricing and towards dynamic pricing is supposed to make award flights more closely resemble cash prices.
Like Aeroplan does with Air Canada flights, American Airlines offers every available seat on AAdvantage redemptions, and it will continue to do so under the upcoming dynamic pricing model.
American Airlines has announced that changes will be coming 2023, but there isn’t a set date for the change to take place. It’s likely that the move to fully dynamic award pricing on American Airlines flights will take place in the latter half of the year, and we can expect to have more details about the change provided well before then.
Interestingly, American Airlines has promised a simplified award chart in the announcement of the upcoming changes. After all, dynamic pricing usually means that award flights will closely match the cash prices, so it’s not very clear how useful a simplified award chart might be.
It’s quite possible that the award chart will resemble the Aeroplan Flight Reward Chart for Air Canada flights. Rather than award flights having a fixed cost, as we see with partner airlines, there will likely be a range of prices that you can expect to pay, while allowing for some variance on either end of the spectrum.
The move to dynamic pricing will do away with MileSAAver and AAnytime awards, which the airline currently uses. MileSAAver flights come at a lower price, while AAnytime awards are available at different tiers of higher costs. Note that Web Special fares, which price tickets by demand and seasonality, will continue to be offered under the upcoming iteration of the program.
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