Originally Posted by gustavmahler

My wife won't requalify for Silver this year - her year ends 8 July. She is wanting to visit her family in Kentucky in July (probably mid-end of the month) and is pretty happy to go a round about way ex-EU and multiple connections to either get it back in one swing, or close to it. Is there a way to make the OTP-PHX fare work, or something similar? This would be going into BNA/SDF ideally, but I guess ORD could work. When I looked recently ORD was a fair bit more than PHX. Any help/ideas would be great! Happy to use Avios to position to keep costs down.