Originally Posted by
glitchy
Possibly-oblivious question, but: is there a "Consolidated AA Awards Availability/Booking" kinda thread that I'm not finding? The other big partners seem to have them, and I can usually get all my questions answered by reading through other people's experiences and the situation with AA changes often enough that everything I know is probably wrong.
My actual goal is to investigate BOS-AKL for late 2020; I know there's not much love for AA around here but BOS-LAX-AKL or BOS-DFW-AKL sure look like compelling options schedule-wise if I can find some J/F seats. (As a non-AA-elite I can only assume the AA Y experience would be pretty miserable.)
I'm pretty sure that the AA forum does not have a "Consolidating Awards" thread per se, but such combining into a single award comes up quite often in the other award threads. Or you could ask in
AA's equivalent to this forum.
If you're unable to book the whole route even though it should be a single award, while the pieces look bookable, you can book part on hold, then call and have them add the rest.