While we're all crying in our cabernet, same goes with AA 86/87. It's SEA-ORD on a mad dog, then ORD-LHR on a 777. At leAAst that comes in & goes out of T3 at ORD. On the return, AA87 is a 777 LHR-ORD into T5, then through customs, security again, then off to the T3 H/K concourse for the last ORD-SEA mad dog ride.

Oh, and the ripoff on the miles? 4801 Q-miles on the "direct" flight, 5674 on the "connecting". For those of you that didn't bring your abacus to class tonight, that's a total of 1746 less Q-miles, 3492 less total miles R/T with EXP bonus. I may just have to do a little whining to AA mahself.