This card is the best option if you want to minimize the cash cost of your award flight since ANA has the lowest fees on tickets to Australia. (rewardexpert.com)
In each chart, I compare the round - trip cost of award flights and fuel surcharges to the cost of the average non-stop, round - trip flight during the week 0f May 17 - 24, 2015. (thepointsguy.com)
My guess is that American may be raising the minimum cost of an award flight to British Airways, hence the price increase for zone 1 short - haul flights in the US market only. (dansdeals.com)