If you just want to buy an AA award on AA metal

Agree all that.

What I'm trying to do here is dump a bunch of Asia Miles before Cathay bites the dust. (Debate over that possibility flames on - many other threads - not hashing it here - I've just made the decision to get some sure (if not perfect) value out of these while I can.)

Only way for me to easily do that is fly American - using Cathay miles. Except I cannot figure out how! I have googled the poop outta this - but responses all hearken back to the "Easy" chart, no longer available.

Meantime - the miles required match the mileage for MileSAAver awards on the redemption chart, then it's a MileSAAver

seems to be exactly what I needed!

Then I have to call Cathay and book it - after finding one. That's why specific date and segment and destination is not what I want - instead, I just want to find a milesaAver - ANY ONE AT ALL - and start booking them. I travel a ton, there will undoubtedly be something there that interests me. Is there another / better / strategy?