Originally Posted by Efrem

American Airlines requires 57,500 miles for one-way travel between the continental U.S. and Europe. You can get to Frankfurt for that amount on Sept. 11 or 19th. You can return for that amount on Sept. 20, 21, 26 or 27. (Other dates may also be available for that number of miles, or some of those may no longer be available, by the time you check. If a date isn't available for 57,500 miles, it is probably still available for more miles, but you don't want to do that unless you have no alternative.) That's a total of 115,000 AA miles for the round trip. Getting those will require 95,000 SPG points because of the bonus that Duke787 mentioned above. You can even take a friend!