Originally Posted by
spicymommy
Here's what I see on AA, attempting travel from 23 Nov with return on 3 Dec, for example.
And with the same, on US
As you can see, there is much different availability between the two. I appreciate any suggestions you have 3Cforme (and others, of course)!
The only difference I can see on the outbound is that aa.com is showing availability on November 17. It looks like all the US dates are medium or higher awards and those won't show on aa.com as you have to use US miles to book them. I think the reason aa.com is showing on that one day is that it is doing a better job than usairways.com of finding a routing. I suspect that if you were using US miles you could call US and get that same routing and probably get them to waive the phone fee as it's not showing on line. Plus it is 3 flights so which is less hassle, the drive suggested or 3 flights with kids?
For the return, for the aa.com portion you are showing, the availability matches as the 3rd is the only day that US is showing low availability.