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"Yes. London to Istanbul would be another 10k miles."
No. AA awards permit connections in both zones of travel (subject to published through-fare routing rules). However, since AA awards do not permit stopovers outside of North America, an extra 10K miles would be required for LON-IST if one stayed in LON for 24 hours or more.
So, using London as a "transit" airport (in London less than 24 hrs) to Istanbul, for example, would still keep someone on the 20,000 North America to Europe benefit?
Yes, as long as the over-water carrier utilized on the itinerary has a published through-fare from origin to destination that permits that particular routing. My guess is that ORD-LHR-IST would be OK; not sure if MQT-ORD-LHR-IST would, but it's simple enough to find out by doing an award search at aa.com, and see how it prices.
Of course, you would have to fly BA metal from LHR to IST, which would mean surcharges.