…make no fucking sense! I can get a round trip from JFK - LAX for 25,000 miles on a standard “saver” award. Using the Dynamic Air Awards that trip is 30,000 miles. For an LAX-SFO award, it’s 20,000 miles using Dynamic Air Awards vs. 25,000 using saver. That said, it makes no sense to blow 20,000 miles on such a short trip when the cash fare is really cheap and there’s lots of competition on the route just as it makes no sense to pay 5,000 more miles going cross country on a “Dynamic” award when you can easily get a saver award on the same route where it makes sense to sometimes use miles rather than cash.
It’s also very confusing since you can only use “Dynamic” awards within the continental US. Granted they mention you can pay less miles than an anytime award which has no capacity limits compared to the saver awards but I’ve had no trouble finding saver awards in the past. I guess maybe I’m just not the target market since I use reward tickets for vacations and am flexible with dates and times to minimize the number of miles used. *shrug*