Cost of AAwards in cash - an indicative guide

[whole-lotta-moxie]

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[Nizar]

The "issue" or downside is the limited availability for award seats in premium cabins, especially ex-Australia. If paying for a regular commercial ticket, you can travel almost any day you like, via whatever routing you like, and with companions on the same flights. but when using award tickets, you can be very limited around dates, routing and it can be almost impossible to find multiple premium cabin award seats available on the same flights much of the time. If you can find the availability, then its great value. If not, then its of no value at all.

Agree wholly but just to add.

The issue re: availability does depend largely on the route and the airline.
A few examples.
Plenty of availability MEL-LHR on QF9/10 in F at even a few months out.
Even more availability if happy to fly on BA in F.
Alot of availability in J from MEL/SYD to HKG on QF on the 388.
Very difficult to find J/F award seats to LAX though even for 1-2 people.

For any of the above, expect to never find >2 seats available in J or F especially on QF.