But there have also been problems with not
all AA saver awards showing up on the BA site.
I was trying to use my BA miles to book
an AA saver award that was using Hawaiian Airline metal.
Not exact matches
Additionally, even if your goal happens to be short flights on American Airlines within the U.S.,
AA has sharply reduced their
saver award space (which is the space open to partners such as British Airways) so Avios are less useful for those
awards.
Using yesterday's example, if there were no
Saver level
awards on
AA we would be stuck without a flight to book with BA Avios.
I remember just a couple years ago flying my family of 4 to Maui for spring break on
AA BOS - DFW - OGG on
saver level
awards.
-LSB-...] first I booked JFK - LAX - PVG - HKG in business on Dreamliner, but then
AA flooded the market -LRB--RRB- with premium seat
Saver awards in practically all directions, and I decided to go for the -LSB-...]
You can redeem AAdvantage miles for
saver awards on
AA starting at 12,500 miles each way (US Domestic travel).
Saver award tickets will cost you 35K
AA Miles or 32K Etihad Guest miles approximately.
Getting to Europe with
AA miles is challenging because
AA saver level
award availability is abysmal in general, but also because they largely let their oneWorld British Airways handle traffic to Europe.
Since British Airways has a distance - based
award chart and American Airlines is a Oneworld partner, you can use Avios to book any
AA flight with
saver level
award availability and have the price based on the Avios chart.
Searching
award availability to AMS / CDG / BCN for spring of next year (just for fun) and there is NOTHING on
AA at
AA saver rates.
At the time there was very little availability on
AA metal, and I felt lucky to find the premium
saver award space on the 777 - 200 departing JFK at 7:55 p.m. Generally, though, I prefer taking the latest possible trans - Atlantic flight so that I can get more sleep.
Anyway, if there is no
saver award space on
AA and if you can not find availability on partner airlines, you're better off saving your miles than using twice as many for an AAnytime ticket.
This rate rivals American Airlines» off - peak
Saver Awards, and unlike
AA's limited seasonal discount, you can redeem at this rate year - round.
Additionally, even if your goal happens to be short flights on American Airlines within the U.S.,
AA has sharply reduced their
saver award space (which is the space open to partners such as British Airways) so Avios are less useful for those
awards.
I saw
saver award availability from OGG to DFW on
AA, so I called Etihad to try and book this flight using Etihad miles.
You can't add a business class
saver - level
award segment on
AA to an
AA saver 77W
award?