Originally Posted by
sinecure
Is there any trick to finding award space to Europe on AA in Business?
Just starting to look for availability but everything seems to some back in coach.
Was looking for YVR-MAD Nov to the end of the schedule.
This isn't exclusive to AS mileage awards.
MileSAAver / SAAver award reduction / scarcity discussion
Getting to EUR on AS/AA miles/metal is extremely hard in itself. You have a better chance with BA, but will have to put up with the surcharges. AA is pretty small in terms of flying to EUR on their own metal, usually leaving the flights up to JV BA or IB/AY. Also, heavily depends when you are looking to book, if summer you may as well play the lottery and try to win, winter or less flown routes (not through LHR) will warrant better results. Since you want to get to MAD, you can only find AA metal flights which limits you in a direct route, or if you want to connect it'll be through a OW hub, like LHR, but those routes are very premium heavy and are hardly released.