American has just introduced a new award scheme called "Dynamic Air Awards." Chances are it won't be useful to most of you, since you most likely redeem your miles primarily for international premium cabin award tickets. "Dynamic Air Awards" allows you to book coach award tickets within the lower 48 at a variable price based…
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"Only elites can redeem for these"
"One major benefit I see is that there are no close-in ticketing fees"
About a year ago American exempted elites from close-in booking fees on awards anyway. So, since this option is restricted to elites anyway, the lack of such fees isn't a unique benefit of the award type.
A quick search of domestic flights seems they are a few K less than redeeming through the regular site
>More options are always welcome.
Until they transition the whole program to such foolishness.
This will actually work for me. LAS - CHS shows no mile saver awards for my dates. So 50,000 would be required. Using the Dynamic Award it would only be 40,000.
I see this as being a good thing for family emergencies or something like that - you need to get somewhere TOMORROW, and you don't want to drop the cash. Looks like this might be a good option.