You all have been so helpful, I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't found this forum! You all have been so generous and awesome in answering my questions! The process is so much clearer to me now!

Thanks isppilot, I was able to edit the segment and add an earlier flight for Dallas. I'll know about two weeks in advance if I end up not having to work the evening before the day we're supposed to leave, so I was thinking I might even try to leave then, since Basil noted that flights to Dallas can be tough. Thank you for the warning Basil! I wish we could connect elsewhere but the only flight I can find (that I'm able to select) to Hong Kong is from Dallas. If it was just me I could fly US probably, but my fiancee is using the D3 and I don't think I can book US flights with those yet. Hopefully we'll get on!

John, your answers were amazing! Especially the part about the visa! I'm getting my stuff together to send in to a visa company on monday, it's good to know that someone else flying AA standby was able to get one! Thanks for the advice about check-in too! And that image of your costs! It definitely makes things a little clearer. As for the US airways thing, I was confused too, because I didn't realize that the image of the text that says "Travel US" (right above the "web check-in") was a clickable link that takes you to book on US airways system. I clicked on that though and I was able to get in and look at flights.

So once you list for a flight, if you search for that flight again using the travel planner, will it show you as listed? Because now our flight to China has five non-revs, two D1T's, one D2, and one D2RT and one D3T. I looked in the tripbook, and I guess T means that Dallas isn't our origin destination? But I could have sworn that last week the flight just said "DR2" and "D3", which I assumed was us. But in all likelihood I could have missed the "T". I'm just wondering if the DR2T and the D3T that I see from DFW-HKG is us?

Either way, I'm so excited for this trip! Hopefully it'll only take us a day or two to get there!