Thought people might find this table useful. It's not really information that you can't work out right now, but I thought I'd just put it here since the conversion will be rather imminent.
Note that the information in the table isn't directly a reflection of how AA or US presents the same data. I've used this table mainly as a means of simplifying the impacts of the conversion to other people I am helping out, who are not necessarily FF or of similar knowledge like us.
I apologise for the image rather than a text-based table. I can't remember the BB code to make tables with lines and I'll plead laziness as I can't be <expletive> to re-look them up or deal with the hideous coding. A big apology for those of you who are blind or hard-of-seeing.
To explain the table below:
- Numbers quoted are for return trips, in thousands of miles (e.g. award travel between Australia and India is 90,000 miles in Business round trip under both US Dividend Miles and AAdvantage).
- J = Business; F = First.
- The "Diff" columns give the difference in miles required, calculated as the AAdvantage price minus the US Dividend Miles price. A red positive number means you need more miles under AAdvantage compared to now with US Dividend Miles; a green negative number means you need less miles.
- Where no notes have been made about routing allowances, generally under AAdvantage, the most direct routing is required between regions, and transiting third regions is not allowed without increasing the cost of the award.
- For travel between Australia and Europe, awards on QF1/2/9/10 are possible at the given AA mileage prices but only if booked on a single continuous service between SYD or MEL and LHR, and the availability must be shown directly between the two endpoints.
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