Originally Posted by sc597
Secondly, in terms of European hops to save money - Stockholm or Copenhagen seem to be recommended? And would I buy it from the OneWorld office in that country?
I just began a DONE4 starting from Stockholm that was quite painless -- only a couple (hopefully) minor glitches that could be avoided with the proper checks and reminders. Reserved it via AA (called their US number using Skype) and then had TAL Aviation ticket it. I imagine you could email your itinerary to TAL and have them do the booking part as well.
The big advantage to ARN over GIB is TAL is AA's GSA for Sweden so they ticket with AA -- which should result in significantly lower fuel surcharges.
We flew RyanAir from Luton to Stockholm's VST airport, found our way over to ARN, and picked up the tickets at the airport (I can advise on all that if you want to economize on that flight -- we paid about 37 GBP p.p. all-in from Central London to ARN).