Originally Posted by rrgg
Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you meant any award seat available to a LAN frequent flyer is also available to someone with an AA OneWorld award. That is not the case with IB. FYI, such an award is designated by IB as U.
This is the case for most OW carriers. i.e. they have more availability for their own members than they have for their partners.
So if you see availability for a member for a specific program it doesn't insure that there is availbility by using mileage from another program.