Thank you!
Erik, Happy and Nabeel,
Thank you for the responses and the information provided. Yeah I had a feeling redeeming these on BA metal would not have been as lucrative. The numbers you provided confirm my suspicion. I will be better off buying these tix from an agent for around $950-1000 and save my miles on AA for redemption (for domestic redemption on AA even assuming each RT domestic is around $200-250, that gives me a $800-1000 value for my 100K miles, as against only $500 value on BA).
I may do Hawaii on AA, I think that is 35K RT, so for 105K I should be able to score 3 RT Hawaii tix. Sounds good :-)
Thank you again folks!