Apologies for bumping this old thread, but is there currently any way for a European like me to redeem miles with non-US credit card? It's been a while since I last redeemed any awards with AA and I was really surprised that there's no way to change my region to my country (Finland) to pay for my flights (which would be $0 for my flights in Japan). The site said that I would have to use americanairlines.fi to book instead, but since redeeming miles always just redirects back to aa.com, it's literally impossible. The workaround that user haa proposed doesn't seem to work either anymore, so I'm just wondering about my other options..