blueandthebeen, welcome to FT! Our Community is large and diverse in travel interests and that's why we have many forums for posting. I know it's not easy to master this when you are under pressure to make a good decision about your ticket purchase. But, as tom911 pointed out, you've got a lively thread going in the American Airlines fourm (Under Miles->Airlines) and I also recommend that we focus the discussion there. To make it easy to get everyone's questions answered and find those answers we do ask members not to post the same question in more than one place. I'll close the thread here. Thank you, welcome again, and best of success with your ticketing needs. Ocn Vw 1K, Moderator.