So I need to get 17 people to Paris between Christmas and New Years for our daughters wedding in J. As the wife and I have a ton of miles in our respective accounts from our business credit card and we never use them, we were planning on using anytime awards for six of the J tickets (for friends of my daughter) and purchasing the remaining 11 for our family.We want to get these locked up now as 16 of us will occupy the entire first class cabin on the connection to the AA hub to CDG and then with the one additional person there, we will essentially occupy the entire J cabin over to CDG in each direction because as of now, the flights we are on are operated with the 787-800 with only 20 J seats. Problem is, after 12/31, there doesn't seem to be anytime awards loaded, despite the flights being there for purchase. A few BA flights show up, but not enough for six and even if it did, I don't want to make two stops (and only shows on the domestic segment with U availability which is few). I did a bit of diggning over the weekend and it appears that for most international destinations, whether it's Europe, Mexico, Carribean or even domestic to Hawaii, anytime awards are not showing after 12/31. Mainland US flights show occasionally, but nothing else. I called AA yesterday and was told by two separate agents that it's because they are lauching the new dynamic awards for international and Hawaii first in 2024 and they haven't loaded them yet. I know this is coming because of the December annoucement but it seems odd they would block these since the schedule is just now touching 2024 and I find it suspect that these two agents know anything, but I guess it is possible.

The wife just wants me to stop screwing around with it and just purchase all the tickets but we never use our miles, we probably have enough to get all 17 of us so I figure we would use them atleast on my daughters friends but on the chance even one seat on the domestic connection to the AA hub gets taken in F, it screws up our plan so its not worth dealing with my wife and daughter if that happens lol. I guess my question is this something that usually happens when the calendar rolls to a new year and to give it a few more days or could the agents actully be on to something?