Hey guys!

So I am new to air miles and everytime I think I understand it, something else confuses me. SO hopefully I can keep this post relatively straight forward.

We're a young English couple but travel around/through america a fair bit. We were in the Caribbean when we learnt about airmiles so naturally we signed up as AAdvantage members and started collecting our miles.

We can't take full advantage of this, because there are plenty of miles to collect by shopping on certain american websites, or using american companies which we can't do being from England. So we can only collect miles via flights.

This is what led me to investigating and I found out about Oneworld and a few others. This i guess leads me to my first official questions...

1. With AA, when we book flights, I put in my AA number for the miles to get associated to me. How do I get my oneworld miles.. what site do I have to book flights from. I presume I couldnt book them from aa.com

2. Are we better off using another program like oneworld since we are English. Does oneworld have more integration with the British system.

I just would like to pledge my allegiance to one program soon being the start of the year and all so we can work towards elite status next year. Sooner rather than later as well as we are flying from California to London in a week or two.

Thanks