Originally Posted by
swag
Well, co-terminals work for the stopover, so you could try to find DFW-LGA/JFK-LHR. You're right, nothing for CLT though.
And in my case, my holiday trips are now to a smaller city, so the same fate as for CLT.
The other issue: During the years that I'm EXP (only due to double EQM promos), I have to pay for all my international trips to have use of the SWUs I get. I don't want to use award miles for anything beyond the US, even as a trick, because I won't have time to fly overseas for additional trips. So even though my home airport is an AA int'l gateway, and so I could theoretically do this on the return at least, I don't have need or desire to spend the time to do an extra trip overseas each year just to use up the miles for this "trick". (I already have trouble sometimes finding enough vacation time to just take the trips that I'll use the SWUs for!)