This is all very good advice. Thank you

As to my words "amassed a bunch of miles" was, relatively speaking, an overstatement. I did post earlier about my miles total, and flying to Australia, Maldives, or Indonesia, and found that my miles probably wouldn't be enough to get there. So now I am working on getting bonus miles in AA and hoping that when the turn of the year comes around, I will have "amassed" a large enough pool to get me out and back (maybe on different airlines). But then I run into the problem of all of the airlines possibly being out of award space - so to make my question as unconfusing as possible, I let on that I had enough to get where I wanted to go, just needed to know if there is a possibility of "being too late getting to the game".

SO stating that, my plans now could be Fiji! Again this is for a late March departure for 2 people. But, sadly, I think I am too late in the game and may need to wait until next October (next vacation time) to use the miles. I will probably be popping in and out asking questions (and reading a lot) on this forum.

Thanks again for your time and help!