American Adds Oneworld Premium Economy Awards (With Award Charts!)

Waiting for the error fares.

you are comparing it to business saver awards in price to the price of the saver awards in premium economy. But as we know, finding the saver inventory in business class is hard, good luck finding 55k business lets say to hawaii. It may be normal inventory available so what 75-85k? in that respect the 50 for premium looks a bit better assuming they make more inventory of saver premium economy seats available. wonder if this will lower the business class inventory if they try to push these reward redemptions instead making it even harder to find saver business class fare?

I think this is a benefit to those with less flexible schedules and the saver level awards are not popping up for them, they have something slightly better than economy for some longer haul flights.

More choice without a devaluation is a good thing.

Current AA PE awards to Europe are generally absurdly priced, such as 255K RT MIA-MAD. Totally ridiculous.

(a) The fact that they published a new award chart suggests that the charts will not go away soon

(b) ...but the charts are largely meaningless because there is rarely anything available on AA at the Saaver price (premium economy awards have been 'available' on AA for some months but only at exhorbitant miles levels) .

(c) OK, BA is available quite often, but who cares since BA charges those huge fake fees.

(d) I bet the other airlines will not make their premium economy available on aa.com any time soon, except maybe IB.

If I look at jals website for award tickets to Japan. They have many premium economy seats from lax-kix. But when I call AA they say there is nothing available.... Does jal block space for their own mileage plan member's?

Saver Hawaii pretty reasonable at only 50K.

Definitely good to have another option to book OneWorld Premium Economy, but I still think there's better value to be had with Avios if you can find space. Iberia seems to be the sweet spot - just flew Bilbao-Madrid-JFK on Iberia for 30,000 Avios + $187.

I've now flown PE on British Airways, American, and Iberia, and surprisingly the soft product on American was the best of the three. British Airways was second, and Iberia a distant third. Though you really fly PE for the seat, not the experience.

I'm confused. Are PE partner redemptions available only with British Airways; or are other partners available too (and just not yet on aa.com)?

United DOES have a PE product and you still can't use their miles to book PE on partners. Maybe this will change soon with this news?

I don't think that comparing miles needed for PE and Business is an objective analysis. You can pretty much get PE to Europe at 40K miles all the time. Getting biz at 57.5 is much more difficult and in some markets you are lucky if you can get it once a year. 110K+miles is more typical so I would compare 40K to 110K+ as being closer to reality

What matters is availability of seats at the "saver" level. My wife and I have hundreds of thousands of UA and AA miles. We have made several trips to Europe recently. We ended up flying Norwegian (premium economy) and TAP and La Compangnie (budget business class). Our miles were totally useless. We have given up on the MileagePlus and AAdvantage programs. We now collect Chase Ultimate Reward points only.

@Joe

You just missed it. 10,000 RT to SYD.

@Jake - since UA charges ~80K-90K in PE to Europe on its own metal (yes, more than saver Business, increasingly rare), don't be surprised to see it for 100K+ on *A partners

There is barely any premium economy from Philadelphia.

Called American regarding flights to HK on Cathay Pacific, as I didn't any way to book Premium Economy seats online. They said they don't offer Premium Economy seats on Cathay Pacific as yet. Any idea when this might actually be available on Cathay?