Originally Posted by amitdelia

Was wondering if the "fly experts" could help me with coach awards. I currently have only AA [250k]and BA miles [700k] and always have to purchase 3 tickets at a time so I dont want to use all my miles on one trip and rather use on multiple trips.

I live in Houston [IAH] so its hard for me to figure out how to get the maximum amount of stops/layovers since Im not a hub city.

I know that I wll use BA for a south america trip. Here is my thought process: Use AA miles to ge to LAN hub and then use BA miles for LAN? Or should I use AA miles and go directly to South american city but it will cost me more in terms of miles. Can I do IAH to Peru to Chile to Brazil and then back to IAH and still cost 40k miles per person? Please fix my thought process if not right.

If someone can please give me some examples of getting the most out of my miles -- like best way to ge to asia or europe [mostly turkey/portugal/swirzerland], australia, and africa [egypt/morocco]

thanks for everything -- for the last 4 months I talk to my wife in "mileage" and she has no idea of what I babble about -- Without yall [texan verbage] I would have 0 miles .

Thanks in advance