What is dynamic vs saver pricing?

When you book flights with miles, award seats generally fall into two categories:

✈️ Saver (Fixed-price) awards

• Cost a set, predictable number of miles.

  Often the only type of award you can book across airline partners.

  • Example: Avianca LifeMiles can only book saver awards on United flights and other partners.
• Usually the best value redemptions.

💸 Dynamic awards

• Prices fluctuate based on demand (just like cash fares).

  Sometimes these awards are reasonable—but they can also be extremely expensive.

  • Example: Delta SkyMiles often shows very high dynamic prices.

How Seats.aero Handles This

We want you to see awards that are actually useful.

• Saver awards: Always shown.
• Dynamic awards: Shown only if the price falls under our set thresholds. If it’s absurdly high, we filter it out so it’s “like it doesn’t exist.”

This way, you don’t get flooded with overpriced results in searches or alerts.

Our Filter Thresholds

We compare the cost to the flight time. If an award exceeds the limit below, it won’t appear on Seats.aero:

Note:

• Flight hours are rounded down and based on total block time (not connection time).

• For Qantas, only Classic Plus awards use dynamic thresholds—Classic Rewards always show.

✅ Why this matters

This system keeps your search results and alerts useful and realistic—you see the good deals without being buried in noise.