Once I ticket an award (e.g. BX9B), can I change the date to a future date?
I am Executive Platinum.
I redeemed 2 BX9B awards at 7,200 points each x 2 = 14,400 for two North America to South Pacific.
My original award redemption date was 12/30/2018 and expires on 12/30/2019 (today is 12/15/2019).
I understand the rule is "Award ticket must be issued by midnight one year from the original award redemption date."
That means ticket needs to be issued for a date sometime in 2020 on or before 12/30/2019.
I understand the rule is "Tickets issued against Business Extra flight awards are then valid for one year from the ticket issue date."
Question 1: I don't understand this sentence. It might be clear to you but I can't wrap my head around it.
BE /termsConditions.htm says "Once a ticket has been issued, the passenger will have one year from the date of issue to fly. Tickets not used within this time frame will be forfeited. Service charges may be imposed for requested changes that require a reissued ticket"

I want to fly 12/22/2020 but it is 12/15/2019 today and the furthest out on AA website is 11/09/2020 as of today. If I check on 12/30/2019, the furthest out I will be able to book will be 11/24/2020. But I wanna travel 12/22/2020.

Question 2: So I cannot book 12/22/2020. What should I do?

Question 3: Should I try to find any business class seat LAX-AKL or LAX-SYD on any date in 2020 (can't find a single seat on any date on AA metal the entire 2020, I checked every day on the calendar) and issue the ticket before 12/30/19?

Question 4: And then shall I keep looking in January, February, etc. 2020 to see if anything opens up for 12/22/2020 and then can I change the tickets?

Question 5: Is a change allowed once ticketed? (note: it does say in T& C "Service charges may be imposed for requested changes that require a reissued ticket") but does that mean it can be extended to 12/22/2020 if 1 or 2 seats become available?

Question 6: If there is a service charge or change fee, is that waived for Executive Platinum?

If you would be so kind as answer each question separately, I would be in your debt.
Thank you for your time.

Is it possible to add a business extra number to an AAVacations booking where the fare is obscured?

No, according to Business Extra Customer Service. AA Vacations don�t qualify.

One idea is simply to call Business ExtrAA, and explain the situation. Ask them to redeposit this award for you, and then once the schedule extends that far into the future, you can request it again in order to book the flights you want on the date you want them. [There might be an issue with points expiry - but who knows how the AA systems will deal with that.] In any case, as an Executive Platinum, there should be no charge to redeposit the certificate.

Hope that helps a little bit. Please do report back to let us know how it goes.

-Checkerboard

We've changed the reservation for free with an EXP on the reservation record.

The info showing how many points expire in each year has disappeared from my account summary. Are other people seeing this? Is there anywhere else I can see this info?

Interestingly, yesterday I got a Business Extra email that showed my correct points balance and said I had 0 points expiring on 31 Dec 2019 -- which I know isn't correct, unless they've changed the points expiration policy.

Same thing here. had points expiring this year. Received email stating 0 were expiring. Logged in this morning and expiration info is missing.

I got a LAX-JFK flight (AA flight # , AA operated) as part of international flights.
The tickets were issues by AY (105 stock).
In this case can I apply BXP1 to the AA segment?
I tried to pull the reservation with AA record locater to upgrade the seat at business.aa.com, but it says "Only American Airlines PNRs are eligible for seat upgrade.", and I can't go further from there. By the way the booking class is I.
It is AA's PNR from aa.com and not AY's PNR, though...

I had applied BXP3 upgrades for a flight within 18 hours from now from back in August. Is it normal for me not to even be able to see a waitlist? I called in and the CSR said that even though there were still seats available, the inventory wasn't available for a BXP3 upgrade to clear. To be clear, we purposely booked in the allowable fare class to upgrade. Did something go wrong with my upgrade request or would AA really rather leave a seat empty than allow me to use an upgrade?

If possible, it is best to book upgrades that are showing available when you book them. Other than that, there is no guarantee there will ever be availability on your flight, and yes, AA often has flights leave with FC seats empty and mileage or BE upgrades either not being made available by AA RM, or airport agents not bothering to process them.

Yes to this.
If you have ExpertFlyer, check the availability there if you want. Otherwise I think you have to call in and see. The only benefit to the calling in part is that if it's there, you can book it right away. I had several times where ExpertFlyer showed availability and then 30 minutes later it went from C7 to C0 (not their fault, obviously AA change it for some reason).

I do not believe your non-001 ticket will be eligible. You could always call Meeting Services and ask, to be sure. From the TOC for BXP1's...
"Valid on flights marketed and operated by American Airlines or American Eagle, ticketed on American Airlines ticket stock (AA001)."
https://www.businessextra.com/awards/toc.htm

Ah..OK.
Do you know if AA can take over and reissue the ticket as AA001 stock?

Had the same thing happen to me, but logging in shows that I have points expiring on 12/31/19.

When I log in now, I see the usual expiring-by-year listing like I am used to seeing. At least they fixed it quickly.