Originally Posted by
4japan2020
He y I am new to award travel and wanted to get idea for flying business class to Japan for the Olympics. I know this will be a difficult to obtain but I can be very determined!. Does anybody have any ideas as to how I could possibly accomplish this for myself, my husband and 3 year old? I have about 220,000 AA miles and 100,000 Amex rewards points.
You will probably need more miles. AA is unlikely to release (m)any sAAver award seats (i.e. at the lowest number of miles) around that time. To get them (if any are made available) you would need to start looking at the earliest point of availability, and probably set up an ExpertFlyer alert, and don't be too picky (e.g. be prepared to split up your party or take connections).
Assuming you cannot get sAAver award seats, you'd need AAnytime awards. These will run at least 120K miles per person each way. Thus for 3 people, you'd need to gain a decent amount of additional miles over the next months.