Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
For instance, you can run a Mexico-USA(stop)-Hawaii set of flights involving AA (AA chart for AS allows this) and have the stop be at your home for a few months (if AS allows it, usually AS hubs are safe) and get two vacation flights for the price of one; some FTers just do these awards back to back (Mexico-US-Hawaii, Hawaii-US-Mexico) and daisy chain as long as you can find availability.

Also from other short-haul AA international destinations. Last week, I flew the first half of an AA J award, LIR-HNL with a 5 month stopover in JFK.
James