I called AA Aadvantage Reservations this morning and was told they could start booking me now, reopen the hold every time a date comes within the 330 days and then book me through without losing my dates. I hope they are right....

Anywho, I've settled on where I want to go and when. Regrettably, I don't have Expert Flyer (living off of government loans, I keep my non-school related purchases/memberships to an absolute minimum), so I don't have a clue about availability.

A few questions for the experts out there:

1) If my preferred routing is not available (e.g. SCL-AKL), may I request to be routed SCL-DFW-LAX-AKL, or SCL-DFW-LAX-HKG-AKL?

2) W/O Expert Flyer is there any easy way (I've dowloaded the OW schedule) to look up all possible flight routings between 2 cities so I can suggest routings to the AAgents. (I've found that often if you -the customer - have an idea it goes quicker than if the AAgent has to go looking).

Here's my schedule (again it's a OW Business Award):

July 28 (2007): WAS-EZE
July 31: EZE-SCL
August 6: SCL-AKL
August 15: AKL-SYD
August 17: SYD-ASP
August 20: ASP-CNS
August 24: CNS-BNE
August 26: BNE-LAX

And that's it. I'll have to buy a cheap oneway to get home from LAX, but with SW going LAX-BWI, I'll be fine there.

Thanks Again for all of the help!