Originally Posted by Jwerking

I am leaving from the East Coast - we retired to Virginia Beach (ORF) but lived in DC Metro area - so we fly out of there a lot to get award seats.


Also appears that the AA availability is perhaps not showing award seats requiring an overnight stay enroute. So may have to piece available legs together and call to book with an agent. This is really starting to add to the cost of a freebie award seat - as we get a one way car rental car to airport and often have to get a hotel for night prior. So an overnight stay enroute would add another hotel cost - so min of about $300 total for Motel 6 type accomodations.

Just playing around now as I need seats for Jan 13 2018 - which is more of an issue because AA never offers saver seats for the time period around the Xmas holidays or loads them very late. I delayed our Big Island accomodations for our Jan 2018 stay for this reason. Had few saver options for our Jan 8 2017 checkin - so hopefully delaying it for another week will definitely get us out of Holiday travel.

Ah well, maybe my freebie airfares to HI are over - hope not!