AA Award flight Europe-Australia

[grussellt]

The current bonus for buying miles means that 45000 miles (sufficient for award from Europe to Australia) costs only $US930. This is competitive with buying a one-way ticket (always a legacy of using QF points to get there but not enough to get back). Does anyone have experience of booking AA award flight back from LHR/CDG back to Oz? I'm wondering about availability (same as QF?) as well as taxes, charges and booking fees. Any help will be much appreciated.

 

[futaris]

Availability will be about the same as a QFF NB, or better.

See here for the routing restrictions. Transits via Asia, in Singapore, Bangkok, Narita or Osaka. Not sure if Hong Kong is ok too.
AA and All-Partner Award info, stopover & routing rules (NOT for oneworld Awards) - FlyerTalk Forums

 

[CWM]

You are probably aware of this but in case anyone reading this isn't - the AA miles you purchase go into your account the next day but the bonus miles don't appear for some time later, think weeks.