Greetings,

I am new to this forum, and new to awards booking. So if the answer to my question is obvious, which I fear it may be, please excuse my newbie-ness.

I recently came into a significant amount of BA miles through a credit card points transfer. In February, I booked a flight from YYZ to PVG on AA for Wednesday May 10.

My employer is allowing me to take more time off which means I can now leave on Saturday May 6. So I called BA to make the change and they said there is no availability for awards customers. I called AA who in turn referred me back to BA.

In all your years of experience, is there anyway to "work the system" and get on that flight? Or am I flogging a dead horse?