Originally Posted by umaa83

My concern of using more miles is what would happen in the case of irrops, would they put the wife, myself, my daugher, her finance, my son and his wife in business on another airline if we are on an award ticket? We are leaving almost a full week before the wedding but it's still December so who knows about weather, let alone AA's mechanical issues they always seem to have so don't really want to experience it for the first time on this particular trip. The miles are anticipated to be used for girfriends of my daughter so I don't personally care if they had to sit in coach due to an irrop situation lol. We are waying our options.