Originally Posted by
guv1976
I'm afraid that I don't understand this. If you booked through AA, you should have been able to book LAX-SYD-MEL on one cash ticket, and AAA-BBB-LAX on another cash ticket, and have AA place both tickets in a single PNR. You would have then been protected in the event of IROPS anywhere along the journey -- including at SYD, assuming that you met the minimum connecting time at SYD.
I booked the award flight from MSN-DFW-LAX-SYD in F award ticket. I wasn’t able to add an extra stopover at MEL. The only one I found would be in Y.