If you want an award traveling on American Airlines that allows for changes, such as changes to a specific flight time or to a routing, make sure to include a partner on the booking. However changes are still permitted under the old rules for partner awards. But there’s no longer an award type for all-American Airlines travel which allows changes at all. Most American Airlines flight awards were booked as web specials which didn’t allow changes already. If you wanted to make a change you’d have to cancel the award and redeposit miles (which is free) and then start over. But there’s a way around this! American Airlines web specials didn’t allow changes. No changes to awards are permitted after booking.Even the inventory ‘buckets’ (T, U, Z) remain in place. Those award charts are still in place and haven’t changed. Booking an AAdvantage award for travel on a partner (like Qatar Airways, Qantas, British Airways, etc.), or for travel on a partner and American Airlines, works the same way as before. They’ve just renamed web special (most awards) to Flight Awards. But they haven’t actually changed the dynamic award prices at all for American Airlines travel at this point. That means the new award chart isn’t very helpful – it is neither the price you can expect to find, nor the lowest price. The chart says domestic first class to Alaska starts at 60,000 miles one way when in fact you can book such flights starting at 30,000 miles. You can still book some domestic coach flights starting at 6,000 miles even though the chart says the lowest price is 7,500. They have published a “starting from” price that isn’t actually the lowest price. Award prices will often be lower than what the award chart shows should be the case.Here are 7 key things to understand about the change: Overall I consider the change negative, but mostly just recognizing past devaluations rather than representing a new devaluation. There’s a new award chart, but it doesn’t provide very much information. Nothing else changes at this time, though a number of things flow from this decision. Now when you’re using American’s miles to fly American Airlines, the only option is web special awards, which have been renamed Flight Awards. American Airlines has eliminated its ‘saver’ and ‘anytime’ awards.
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