• Use 12,500 Etihad Guest miles to fly on American Airlines one - way anywhere within the USA and Canada when you find
sAAver level award space (excludes Hawaii)
SAAver level award seats on the A321T can be difficult to find, but if you're lucky, you can redeem for 12,500 AAdvantage miles each way in economy, 25,000 each way in business or 32,500 each way in first class (these amounts will increase on March 22, 2016).
The key is finding
sAAver level award availability, which can be difficult these days.
If
SAAver level award space is available on American Airlines, you could transfer 20,000 points to Cathay Pacific's Asia Miles program to book the flight.
Not exact matches
Reduced the availability of premium
SAAver Award availability on its own aircraft to levels where most travelers are having trouble finding a single award seat on routes they tr
Award availability on its own aircraft to
levels where most travelers are having trouble finding a single
award seat on routes they tr
award seat on routes they travel.
I couldn't find a single
SAAver Business Class
award on this route through the end of the schedule so, if you don't want to part with cash, a one - way Business Class trip will cost between 110,000 and 135,000 miles (compared to 57,500 at the
SAAver level).
Since American Airlines has clamped down on low -
level award availability during the holidays (I was very fortunate to score a Christmas - New Year's
sAAver - ish fare last time around), our next trip to Nicaragua will be well after the holidays.
While it's true that American is not releasing many
award seats at the lowest mileage
levels, which it calls «
SAAver Awards,» the situation is much brighter at its partner airlines.
In order to book these flights with partner airlines, American Airlines must have
award space at the
SAAver level.
While economy
award space on American Airlines is still pretty good for many different routes, there has been a lot of grief lately over business class availability at the
SAAver level.