Just in case if you missed it: there is a wonderful new promo where you can convert 20K *points to 50K British Airways miles - remember that AA is one of BA's travel partners and among other things you can use 35K BA miles for one free AA coach R/T from the continental USA to Hawaii - you can read about it at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum15/HTML/006206.html and http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum74/HTML/009364.html