Originally Posted by
spainfly
it seems that they will fly Monday, Wednesday and Friday MAD - LAX,... was wrong with Saturday.
But another story is, taht it absolut impossible, online, to find a possibility, with points for business from MAD to USA. I did not only try LAX, also ORD, JFK, BOS, MIA and DFW with AA.
Hopefully with calling the Gold-CC they will help, but have not a lot of hope.
Had anyone luck in the past with booking this?
Thanks
Spainfly
Using AA miles: looking this past spring I found some availability for the MAD-LAX flights in J for this fall - in fact I had to change my upcoming trip a few times and I was still able to rebook a seat on IB6171.
But when I started looking at availability 330 days out I couldn't find any - so this led me to believe that chances seem better to book 6 months out vs 11. But I certainly have no idea at this point what IB's historic pattern has been with making available MAD-USA award seats - obviously.
What could very well be playing a role in your inability to find award seats ex-MAD for next summer, is a couple of months ago when AA ppl were looking to book their award seats for next summer there was an abrubt blackout of US-Europe "mileSAAver" seats on AA metal and given that BA has horrible surcharges ALOT of people were booking IB and using MAD as their gateway city. And then of course there's the Olympics playing a factor.
But none of this is giving you much help, I'm sorry. I wish you good luck with the Gold Desk.