Originally Posted by
beep88
As for using UA to search, only "saver" award flights are available for Aeroplan booking.
I use ANA search extensively, supplemented by UA.
+1 for the ANA tool, i ended up moving some hilton hhonors points to my ANA account so that i could use the star alliance search without jumping through hoops. AP gives such a huge preference to AC and LH that it helps to find some more options.
To OP if you're looking there's ways around it but i found this blog post helpful:
http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...d-search-tool/