[Rumor] American Airlines To Introduce Premium Economy Awards

There are some rumors swirling that American Airlines plans to introduce premium economy awards as early as the end of January. Gary from VFTW covered this earlier this month, it also seems to be backed up by JonNYC and American Airlines reps have told FT user jackonferry that changes are coming as well (although not specific to premium economy and they talk about a March launch date). Obviously more options are great, but we need to know what pricing will be like and if it will also be available on partners or only on AA metal. There is also some concern that by adding premium economy awards it will make it easier for AA to increase the price of business class awards.