Thank you all. The situation: have a lot of miles on several airlines, but many times to many destinations, the standard or saver award flights are not available on any of the airlines. Even worse: to go from one departure to a destination which basically takes x hours, when you try to get an award ticket they take 3 x times, possibly even including an extra overnight. Suggestion: alike to other threads about earning miles, we should consider a thread how to use miles across any airline, or alliance.