American Airlines flight maps is a website tool I find useful for international award searches. One of its features is the option to search for nonstop flights by American Airlines or AA partners from any airport. This proved to be a useful tool for award search where I was seeking available award flights to Vienna,…
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Low tax AAdvantage Business awards from LAX and SFO to Europe for Nov-Dec holidays

American Airlines AAdvantage awards to Europe increase in miles price on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Business Class award travel increases 15% from 50,000 miles to 57,500 miles each way. First Class award travel to Europe increases 35% from 62,500 miles to 85,000 miles each way. Loyalty Traveler – AAdvantage 2016 Business and First Class American…
AAdvantage 2016 Business and First Class American Airlines Award Chart changes
American Airlines is adjusting its Business and First Class award charts with new ticket prices for miles beginning March 22, 2016. Most of the changes announced are increases for Business and First Class awards. All increases to Business Class awards are less than 30% more miles. First Class awards see the biggest change with award…
Cool features of AAdvantage Award Maps
This article looks at the basics of AAdvantage Award Map, an aa.com tool for checking award rates from any airport to an entire region, like Europe. I set MRY Carmel/Monterey as my airport departure location and Europe as my travel destination. Advanced features are accessible through a home page link “more options” above the map.…
Survey of AAdvantage Business Class USA-Europe award taxes using miles

Numerous posts by bloggers today point out the good deals available with the two day British Airways Business Class ticket sale dropping round trip fares down to $1,225 from San Francisco and west coast, and even down to under $500 round trip with 30,000 Avios. Before that story took off this morning, another blogger favorite…
AAdvantage Europe off-peak awards only 20,000 miles each way October 15 to May 15

In between my hours calculating taxes this week to file by today’s due date in my 10th year filing Loyalty Traveler business taxes, some of my time has been spent looking at off-peak award tickets to Europe for 20,000 AAdvantage miles each way. AAdvantage USA – Europe off-peak awards are only 20,000 miles each way…
Buy AA miles up to 25% off by August 31
Being one of the travel bloggers who extol the virtues of economy class travel, the current offer to buy AA miles up to 25% off for purchases by August 31, 2014 is one I find has interesting value potential. Or perhaps I am simply too lazy to sign up for new credit cards every 90…
AA.com awards AAnywhere, but Athens
This weekend I have put many hours into travel planning for trips to Norway in September and Greece in October. My situation is I have sufficient miles for a one-way economy class award ticket between Monterey and Europe with American Airlines AAdvantage and United Airlines Mileage Plus. AA takes 20,000 miles and United takes 30,000…
ITB Berlin and AA Europe award ticket layovers
In March I will be attending the world’s largest travel trade show at ITB Berlin. An estimated 17,000 attendees. Huge. The past several days I have been studying options for flying to Berlin and back in March 2013 using American Airlines AAdvantage miles. It would be to my advantage if I had 30,000 United miles…