Not sure if this is the right place to post or not but feel free to push to AA forum if you think that's better:

I just put on hold a OW130 award for travel in J from LAX to BOM (Mumbai, India) this Nov. This involves travel from LAX-JFK-LHR-HEL-BOM on the outbound via AA, BA, & AY and travel BOM-LHR-BOS-LAX (BA & AA) on the return. This started as a standard all-partners award at 135K miles per ticket. Thanks to all of you on this forum however, I asked if it qualified as a OneWorld Award since my start-finish destinations were LAX and BOM. It did.

Here's the question. What are the cons, if any, of a OW130 award vs a standard all-partners award. Routing flexibility, date flexibility? For example, will I still be able to change my return from LHR-LAX to the non-stop if award availability in J opens up on my desired dates? Or does this only work for the all-partners award type, which costs 5K miles more? I have until 3/21 to ticket this. THanks in advance for your help.