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Feb 14, 2015, 5:47 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MIT_SBM

I am booking a one-way flight on American Airlines using AA miles. I need a departure of 11 March 2015 or 12 March 2015, going from BKK to HSV. The ONLY routing the AA CSR was able to find is:

Mar 11, 2015
CATHAY PACIFIC 706
BKK Bangkok 01:35 AM HKG Hong Kong 05:05 AM

CATHAY PACIFIC 898
HKG Hong Kong 10:15 AM LAX Los Angeles 07:50 AM

AMERICAN AIRLINES 1169
LAX Los Angeles 01:19 PM ORD Chicago 07:26 PM

AMERICAN AIRLINES 2975
ORD Chicago 08:20 PM HSV Huntsville 10:00 PM

in Coach for 35K miles plus taxes and fees.

I searched several options on Award Nexus and didn't find anything at all in Coach. Is there a better option out there using AA miles, USAir miles or Skypesoes [no one way awards

]? Better, in this case, would mean a flight that leave later in the day on 11 March 2015 or 12 March 2015 but doesn't go through LHR, doesn't require a change of airports at a stopover point and doesn't have a 5+ hour layover at night.

Given your itinerary, relatively late booking date and the US/AA routes, I think you've done pretty well w/this. The LAX layover is pretty long since there the flights to HSV are limited you are looking at a long US layover somewhere.