Originally Posted by jrussell

I am currently booked on an AA award ORY-LHR-DFW in F and want to change to ORY-MAD-DFW the next day. As of now no F award seats are available on the MAD-DFW segment.

As it turns out LHR-DFW is completely sold out in F (I suppose there could even be a waiting list) while MAD-DFW has plenty of available F revenue seats.

It seems to me AA would like to have a seat back on an oversold F flight (with a good chance of revenue resale) in exchange for an award seat on a flight which has plenty of seats available and may be unlikely to sell out. Do you suppose AA would consider such a request specifically framed as a swap rather than as a simple request to release an award seat?

To make the request I guess I need to find a res agent who understands the the situation and is willing to send you a request to Revenue Management. I am AA Gold so have no status leverage.

Should I give it a try or am I really just wasting my time?