Originally Posted by
sbm12
They are more generous for domestic runs. For international rewards most carriers offer the stopover/open-jaw options.
AA awards allow more stopover/open-jaw options on international award tickets at no additional miles than DL, NW, US and UA.
With AA awards for say US-Europe or US-Asia roundtrip, I've managed city A-B o B-C o C-D o, E-F (i.e., where "o" = stop) and then stuffed it with some creative connections (i.e., "x" = connection) to allow for sub-24 hour connections internationally.
The same sort of 40k AA mile coach award trip in the case of US-Europe-US would have cost anywhere from 80k to 175k DL miles (in coach) when recently attempting the same sort of thing -- or even something far more simple -- with DL miles.