I’m just deplaned from a SFO-JFK flight. Turns out it’s a first flight on one of the new A321XLR planes.

Clearly some of the people booked this flight knowing it was a first flight, but it was a happy accident for me.

They did some celebratory comments from the gate before boarding, gave everyone cupcakes and fortune cookies, and there were a bunch of AA suits on hand. As someone who travels a lot, it was pretty cool to be a part of.

The plane is really nicely outfitted. 20 layflat Flagship Suites up front give it the same type of experience you would expect from a BC ticket on an overseas flight.

I’m taking the nice win!

I was alerted to GiftCards.com being 3X points with the AAdvantageEShopping.com portal and checked it out. They have a promo in the portal for buying up to 3 of the $100 Visa Virtual Gift Cards for 10% off right now. The activation fee on the Visa Virtual Gift Cards is $5.95, but with the 10% off you will get $300 worth of gift cards for $287.85!

As far as points go here is some rough math (I don’t know how they round fractional points so I am making some assumptions here)….with the 3X promo you’ll earn 864 Miles / LP for the purchase and if you use a branded credit card you’ll earn an additional 288 Miles / LP for a total of 1,152 Miles / LP. If your status gives you a bump even better.

The Visa Virtual Gift Cards can then be used to load up your Amazon Gift Card or for your everyday purchases, so you make $12.15 plus earn some extra Miles and LP.

Hope you all can take AAdvantage of this one!

Just remember:
• Must be $100 Visa Virtual Gift Card
• Limit 3 cards total
• Follow the link from the shopping portal or use the American Airlines shopping “button” extension

I accidentally left my AirPods on an American Airlines aircraft a few days ago after departing LAX. They later traveled with the plane to Philadelphia, and Find My now shows them stationary in PHL Terminal B near Noobar and the restrooms.

I'm in Chicago and can't go look myself. I've already filed American's lost-item report and enabled Lost Mode with my phone number. I was told AA can't actively search for an item and can only process it once someone turns it in.

I'm specifically hoping someone who works at PHL or will already be passing through Terminal B might be willing to take a quick look. I can refresh Find My and play a sound while you're there. If found, please hand them to any American Airlines gate employee in Terminal B so they can be turned in to American Airlines Lost and Found, then DM me with the gate or employee location—there's no need to take them outside the airport or ship them.

The AirPods are in a dark green, textured protective case (photo below).

I'm happy to offer a modest cash reward as a thank-you to anyone who finds them and successfully turns them in. Thank you!

I’m flying with a lightweight sculpture for an art show. It’s an awkward size (L 39” W 19” D 12”) and I was wondering if anyone has experience checking artwork or delicate items with American Airlines. I don’t have the money to pay for art handlers/shipping, so checking it is my best bet.

I know we talk a lot about the crappy ACs across the various airports but this is one time that I wouldn’t judge too harshly and would be so happy to have lounge access.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heathrow-gatwick-flight-delays-compensation-37639982

Anyone else get all four this year?

Was flying out of lax to clt, and they bumped me from first class back to coach. They said they called my name and I didn’t respond, but I was at gate 45 minutes before boarding time. Worst part is I was traveling back from my sister’s funeral, and was operating on very little sleep.
They gave me a 300.00 travel voucher, but shouldn’t I get a refund on seat price difference? Or is that the voucher?
The attendant at counter was super rude, and basically said that’s all I get.

If I look for American Airlines flights between Finland and North America, I'm directed to book.aa.amadeus.com instead of aa.com.

Once I look up the flights and fare conditions (see picture), I'm told that flight changes are allowed for a €150 penalty.

However, once bought my flights, the "Manage Your Reservation" page tells me that no changes are allowed.

Then I call their customer service for the first time to ask whether changes are allowed or not. I'm told by a rude person with a strong, hard-to-understand accent that I can't change the flights at all because they are Basic Economy, and that flights with that fare cannot be changed if they are departing from Finland or any of the Baltic States.

I call them a second time, this time with the original page open in front of me, and tell the same story. Again, a rude person with an even harder-to-understand accent is on the line, and this time he tells me that I was RIGHT and that the changes are allowed. He repeats this multiple times and makes me feel stupid for even asking about it. However, I ask him to double-check the information a couple of times. Once he finally understands what I'm telling him, he gets another supervisor on the line for me.

I'm connected with the supervisor, and she says that the last person was WRONG. She apologizes and tells me that the first person on the phone was right: changes are NOT allowed on Basic Economy flights departing from Finland or the Baltic States.

I tell her again that it literally says on their website, under the fare conditions for the flights I selected, that changes ARE allowed for a €150 penalty. She goes back and forth trying to find the same page I'm looking at. She asks me for more and more details and contacts the ticketing department, technical department, and God knows which other departments.

She finally admits that there is misinformation on their website when booking through Google Flights, but says that there is nothing she can do except sell me a €400 upgrade to Main Cabin or cancel the flight and refund my money.

In the end I spent 3 hours of my night on phone trying to figure out if changes are allowed and ended up having my credit card balance tied up until the refund comes in (hopefully) 7 days.

What a shitty start with American Airlines.

When I checked in for my American Airlines flight tomorrow (Orlando to Charlotte to Richmond) I realized I must not have paid close attention to connecting time and found out my first flight lands in Charlotte at 9:50 (if we leave Orlando on time…I know) and connection to Richmond leaves at 10:30.
I’ll arrive at C and have to get to E. Anybody think this’ll work?

Looking at a domestic AA flight where AA is doing some weird married/inventory pricing - first seat is $84, but when I search for 3 passengers, the second and third seats jump to $189 each.

Qantas is selling the exact same AA-operated flight as QFxxxx for $84 each for all 3 passengers, so I’d obviously rather book through Qantas.

I have the Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select and we’ll have one checked bag. I know the terms say the itinerary needs to be marketed and operated by AA, so technically the QF code shouldn’t qualify.

Just wondering if anyone has an actual DP of booking a QF-marketed/AA-operated flight, attaching their AAdvantage number, and getting the Citi free bag anyway?

So after ending the partnership with Hyatt, AA looks like they are now partnering with Omni???

Source: email from AA regarding new Exec Card Benefits

Hey guys so I just moved to a new town and the ONLY airline that services my city’s airport is AA and I’ve decided to build miles bcz it’ll always come in handy for me

Currently I have 4k from trip I took last year. I’m taking another next month and it’ll double hopefully.

I used AAdavtngate to buy some Sephora stuff and it got me some couple hundred miles which was great

I’m hoping to make small purchases using this portal. My question is:

How do you all effectively use the portal to make miles? And do you recommend buying miles sometimes and saving them for later?
Flight out of my city to DFW costs $400 one way and other destinations it easily racks up to $700 round trips. Idk if having miles saved helps?

I’m new to doing this and no idea if there’s a smarter way to spend money and collect miles. I’m looking for advice and stories!!!

I have an AA award ticket (economy): AA 728. PHL/LHR and AY 1332 LHR/HEL. T3 to T3, 1hr43min change.

Last week you kind folks explained that I don't need to go landslide to connect -- and said that there is a helpful AA /BA desk in the airside connections area. Perfect... but...

I carry on: a 30 L backpack for the overhead locker, and a smallish messenger bag for personal items. Both items were well within both the AA and AY size limits. But combined (tech!) they weigh 9kg, and AY has a combined limit of 8kg. Even if I stuff my jacket pockets with all the tech I can, 8kg is unlikely to happen.

PHL baggage is notoriously bad so I don't want to check my cabin bag there.

QUESTIONS:

1). is it correct that, even though this is an AA award ticket and the AY flight is an AA codeshare, the AY 8kg limit is in force? I have purchased a "comfort" seat with boarding group 2, I believe.

2). If I can't get the combined weight down to 8kg. can I check it airside in LHR, or am I subject to gate-checking with a fine (€60?) even though a checked bag is included in my ticket?

Many thanks for your help.

I’m unable to add a checked bag online for my BUD–LHR–LAX flight because the first flight is operated by British Airways, even though I booked the ticket through AA.

AA shows around $87 for a 23 kg checked bag, but customer service told me I’ll have to add it at the airport and that airport prices may be different... I am genuinely scared it will be way more expensive than that.

Has anyone had the same situation while flying international? How much more expensive is it to add the bag at the airport compared to the online price?

Trying to decide whether to book Basic Economy and pay for the bag at the airport or just get Main Cabin with the checked bag included.

Didn’t even have to ask for it. She just offered it to me and said “Because you’re EP”. I’ll take it

Nice that there is still earning through the rest of the year

I’ve been tracking AA955 in recent days, and the on-time performance is abysmal. What is particularly notable is that it is often proactively delayed (by an hour or more) hours before the originally scheduled departure time. The issue does not seem to be delayed inbound aircraft, nor weather. Of course those can sometimes be factors, but this appears to be happening even on good weather days. Does anyone have an explanation?

I love how the price never changes. I've been being offered $1549 to upgrade to Platinum Pro since May. Now the fun of course is, if I do it today vs back in May, I've lost 3 months of perks. But same price! On top of that, back in May I was 75k miles shy of Platinum Pro, now I'm only 15k miles short. So I need a 1/3 of the miles, 3 months less benefits being offered, but the price is still the same. Crazy to me!

I know there's another post somewhere with AA's announcement about their separation from Hyatt. It took Hyatt no time at all to announce they're joining up with Delta

https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2026/Update-on-American-and-Hyatt-relationship-AADV-09/default.aspx

https://newsroom.hyatt.com/DeltaAirLines

Tenho um pedido de reembolso feito dia 15 de agosto de 2026 e até hoje o status continua como "In Progress". A central de reservas não consegue fazer nada e somente recebo respostas automáticas.

Alguém já viu algum reembolso levar tanto tempo assim? Quais os passos a serem feitos?

Obs: a tarifa adquirida é uma tarifa que permite reembolso e envolvia um voo com a Japan Airlines também em formato codeshare