The agency reference is still published by AA.

I guess the link you posted seems to be "marketing-like" worded, versus the agency reference which spells out the rules.

Can't say for sure, given that "bulk, opaque and award travel" are excluded from the rule (and thus very few fares would fall under the rule), but I would think they would have grounds to apply the rule if they felt like it.

We all know that we can't take a webpage (either the AA link or the Agency reference link) as the hard and fast rule.

-ryan