How many AA miles to fly etihad from Aus to europe

[andy90]

My father recently transferred about 90 000 AA miles to me as he believes he has no use for them anymore.
I fly from Brisbane to Amsterdam every year and my partner and I currently have enough FF points to book a one way flight to Amsterdam in Emirates first class.
Therefore, I am really tempted to book the 1st class flight as soon as my required date is available and then put the AA miles towards a flight home.
I have had a look at the American website and availability generally isn't great coming back to Australia from Amsterdam. I know if you ring them you can also use the AA miles to book flights on Etihad.

Does anyone know how many AA miles would be required for a business class on Etihad from Europe to Australia?

Thanks
Andy90

 

[mmchow]

If flying with Etihad, AA will charge you two awards for booking from Europe to Australia - Europe to Middle East and Middle East to Australia. Miles required for a J seat; 42,500 and 80,000.
With Qatar, this will be one award and it will cost 85,000 AA miles from Europe to Australia. I'm sure you can tag a domestic connection to BNE without any additional points.
Also check out Point Hacks guide on redeeming miles from Europe to Australia

 

[grussellt]

An online search will generally offer awards via HEL (on AY) or via LHR (on BA). However if you search via multi-city and accept a connection of more than 2h, but less than 24h, you should get more choices. A call to AA will certainly help.

 

[scwappy]

EY generally very good availability although at a much higher points cost. Can be a trade off. It's worth calling AA to discuss your options as if you are only looking for one seat, and are flexible you would have a great chance of securing a J seat. AA allow European and Australian connections for free if needed.

 

[Guvner]

An online search will generally offer awards via HEL (on AY) or via LHR (on BA). However if you search via multi-city and accept a connection of more than 2h, but less than 24h, you should get more choices. A call to AA will certainly help.

How do you "accept a connection of more than 2h, but less than 24h" on the AA awards search? I haven't seen that anywhere on AA.com.

 

[grussellt]

By choosing the second leg to be up to 24h after the end of the first leg (which may be overnight). This may require a call to AA as the online search will often price this as two awards but as long as the route meets other rules the award should ticket as a single EUR-SP award. As an example we flew SYD-NRT (JL)-overnight-NRT-LHR-CDG (BA) for the old price of 60000 miles in J.

 

[serfty]

By choosing the second leg to be up to 24h after the end of the first leg (which may be overnight). This may require a call to AA as the online search will often price this as two awards but as long as the route meets other rules the award should ticket as a single EUR-SP award. As an example we flew SYD-NRT (JL)-overnight-NRT-LHR-CDG (BA) for the old price of 60000 miles in J.

When it prices as two awards you can do this by selecting the flights and then putting the reservation on hold.

You then call AA and have them combine and reprice as one AAward.

Get them to put it back on hold, then go in online and complete the booking.