Hi,

I have a wedding I’m attending next April in Dallas. Flights to DFW are pricing up very expensive mostly across all parts of the year and with the BA/AA dominance there with flights to london, I can’t really see these coming down. I’d like to out economy and back premium economy if possible, or premium economy both ways. So my plan at present is to fly to a far more competitively priced destination (likely Chicago as the connection timings work out) and book a separately booked redemption AA ticket from ORD-DFW. The savings doing this still work out vastly cheaper than going direct and I’d like the tier points to remain as a silver member (discounting doing a direct redemption to DFW).

Am I therefore correct in saying I’m doing something like this completely at my own risk? With the connections etc not guaranteed? Other suggestions and routings would be welcome. Wedding is over the weekend of the 18th.