Originally Posted by
mheals16
So my fiance and I have been trying to book our honeymoon for the past week, trying to take advantage before the American devaluation.
If you didn't book an award already, it's too late (and already was too late at the time of your post).
The AA devaluation went into effect today (March 22).
https://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/r...-chart2016.jsp
Given that, you now have some time to figure this out (given that there's no urgency any more to figure it out by any date that's coming up soon).
(Though of course you have to decide soon whether to lock in the Bora Bora you have on hold.)
Originally Posted by
mheals16
JFK to Maldives
JFK>DOH>CMB>MLE on Qatar November 14th business class. This is fantastic, exactly what we need. However the problem is getting to Sydney then getting home.
That's going the wrong way. AA's USA<->South Pacific awards are trans-Pacific only. If you book trans-Atlantic, that requires two awards (in one direction), which significantly increases the award cost.
Originally Posted by
mheals16
I'll need an additional 155K between now and november to get. I'm not sure that's possible sicne it took us almost 2 years to get what we have now
Assuming you have good credit, it's not necessarily unachievable. Visit this thread:
and this thread:
to figure out how to do a sizeable chunk of it with credit card signups (depending on what AA and/or SPG credit cards you've gotten before and when).
Meanwhile, I'd consider changing destinations before restorting to using AAnytime. Using AAnytime is
way more of an increase in miles requirements than the devaluation.