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"Would aa allow an open jaw between two different locations for the round trip off peak?"
All AA awards are one-ways, and can be combined, as needed, to create roundtrip, open-jaw, or multi-city itineraries. And, as noted, you could fly one way with AA miles, and the other way with UA miles.