Hi...Call the airline you ..don't..intend to fly first and see what flights they have available for award seating as they will have fewer seats than the "home" airline. That way if you can get AA seats through BA and AA is not showing any or not enough a reservations supervisor can help you out. We can't pull extra seats out of BA's inventory of our seats but do have the ability (within certain guideines) to get one or two extra flights out of our own inventory. Also, on AA you can hold award reservations in 30day increments. You can renew every thirty days. It used to be that we would hold seats indefinitely but there were a lot of seats being held and never being used. Seats that another ff would have like to have had. So the thirty day rule was instituted. The feeling being that if you are really interested in using those seats you will make the effort to call back and renew. If not they will drop back into inventory to the first come first served status. Hopes this helps.
Also, if you can find a good AA agent they can call BA while you're on the line and try to work out the reservations for you.

[This message has been edited by RDURES1 (edited 08-25-2000).]