Originally Posted by
nachosdelux
The lack of saver availability, with decent flights/connections if frustrating.
You could call AA and have an agent search for saver availability on the dates you require, and see what comes up - tell them you don't care what cities in Europe (or have a list)
you could just keep checking yourself, or you could hire an award search service that will do this for a fee.
With a long airport (overnight) layover I would get a hotel room at the airport. Cost of doing business, unfortunately.
Perhaps someone on Flyertalk with more time than me can give you some specific help.
good luck!
Thank you. Yes I will wait. I remember someone once commented on making sure i dont fly through London. I think that cuts off France, Italy and England itself. Then I looked at Spain. BCN is served very cheap by Norwegian so i don't want to use my miles for a fraction of perceived value to BCN. So I looked at MAD and that required punishing layover in Dallas with 6 year old. No wife approved. I looked at even Caribbean and nothing good either.
One thing I don't know is how to use miles with another airline that is by phone only. I hate calling CSR for AA because they want exact date and City. Very annoying. They dont want to search to give advice and they rather have my miles expire worthless.