Originally Posted by Marathon Man

AA mileseaver booked Aug 08 for Feb 09 - 30k pp, same itin as above, this time daughter is 2.5years old so she needs her own award ticket and we have a 7 month old boy as lap ticket. We chose 3 joining econ seats. In Nov 08, AA changes schedule to now connect thru JFK on outbound, so it's now BOS-JFK-AUA and we leave home at 5:30am, not 10am. Return connects thru Miami, getting us home close to midnight. Airline said it discontinued the non stop on the dates we chose. After much discussion, I elected to change dates to 2 days later in both directions, change hotel res and use their 70k pp anytime award. (actually have it on hold now and may or may not really go because that's a lot more miles-- but I can stomach it. In this case, ease of travel would win over amount of miles used.)