Here are my plans and my question before I call AA. You are always so helpful.

ff San Diego to Milan (via London).

Returning fron Paris to Boston (with a stop here) and then to San Diego.

Is this possible?

If so, because I am stopping in Boston on the way back does the flight to Milan have to go through Boston? Looks like some flights go through other cities.

Thanks for your help. I hope I made myself clear.

lois

Possible.

The outbound and inbound can have different routing. Even different airline (as long as they are AAdvantage partners).

thank you. More questions coming up on other trip. You are just great.

When you say a stop in Boston, do you mean just changing planes (i.e., routing through Boston) or an actual stopover breaking your journey so you can spend time in Boston? Rkwan would know more than I about AA, but I know that my FF programs on another airline allows either an open jaw or a stopover on award travel to Europe, but not both.

AA allows both.

So that gives me a lot of options when I call them..as there are a lot of flights to London...for that Milan plane.

Thanks

There are so many possibilities with the regular AAdvantage All Partners award.

The only exception to any of the partners is British Airways. You can't use BA when flying from US to London.

You can have a stopover on the outbound or the inbound but not both and you are allowed an open jaw.

If I were you I would try to hook up to Swiss from SAN to LAX to Zurich and continue to Milan from there. Zurich is a much nicer, less hassle transfer facility. LHR could be a mess on any given day. If you decide to go through London, be aware that it's possible that you will come into one airport and go out of another. The transfer is your responsibility. Just pay attention to that possibility.

On the return you will also have to do a connection. There are no direct flights from Paris to Boston on any partner. You will have a choice of connecting in London (again watch for 2 airport connection possibility), or fly AA to JFK and connect there to BOS, an easier connection. Or probably the easiest would be AerLingus or AA through Dublin. Dublin airport is very nice and compact and AerLingus/AA fly directly non-stops to Boston from there.

There are many more options, but these would probably be the best and easiest.

Good luck and have a great trip!

You can have a open jaw ff ticket. You can also have one national stop (has to be a gateway city and Boston is one.) Also you have have one international stop, as long as it`s a gateway city. By stop, I mean you can spend several days there or whatever. Patrick really knew this stuff, but no more patrick, I am sorry to say.