american airlines oneway Awards tickets

American Airlines is revolutionizing the frequent flyer business with the new AAdvantage One-Way Flex Awards. previously, you could book a free flight for as few as 25,000 miles, but that ticket would always have to be round trip.
American is the first major domestic airline to offer a one-way award ticket at a true one-way price at just one-half the amount of the required round-trip miles.
The move by the USA's second-biggest airline was greeted gladly by travel analysts familiar with fliers' frustrations about the inflexibility of many awards programs.
American Airlines' frequent fliers can book one-way award flights — for half the miles required to book a round-trip ticket.AAdvantage members can fly one-way trip for 12,500 points, half the 25,000 needed for a free round trip.
One-Way Flex Awards give AAdvantage members the flexibility to combine different one-way awards on a single itinerary. For instance, a member may travel outbound on an Economy Class MileSAAver award and return on an economy class AAnytime award. Or, a member may choose to travel in different classes of service on a trip, such as traveling outbound in Business or First Class and returning in Economy Class.
Several small and discount carriers allow their frequent fliers to turn in points for one-way trips. But American is the first of the USA's big conventional network carriers to allow it.
Called One-Way Flex Awards, the change lets AAdvantage members:
•Fly one way on an award ticket and return by another means, including a purchased one-way ticket. •Book a trip to several cities on points. Previously, AAdvantage required round-trip travel between two cities.
•Book an award trip in coach in one direction and a premium-class seat in the other.
•Split an award trip between American and one of its 20 AAdvantage program partner airlines. Previously, awards trips had to be completed entirely on American or entirely on one of its partners.
•Travel in one direction on an award ticket at "off-peak" times and the other on a "peak" award ticket. Frequent fliers long have been frustrated by the difficulty of finding available seats both ways within "off-peak" periods, which require fewer mileage points.