I just booked this routing, using miles, for a trip 2 weeks from now, all legs in F...
SEA-LAS on AS (duration 2:17)
LAS-DFW on AA (duration 2:50)
DFW-TPA on AA (duration 2:20)

I was able to immediately go online with AA and pre-reserve ^ my CHOICE ^ of meals on each AA leg. From Vegas I will be enjoying a chicken curry wrap with chilled couscous salad instead of the lemongrass salmon with mixed greens. Then out of Dallas I chose the breast of chicken stuffed with spinach and cheese, complemented by emmental potatoes au gratin and buttered haricots verts over the sacchetti pasta with alfredo sauce and sundried tomato coulis.

Unfortunately on my first class breakfast flight out of Seattle on AS I have NO IDEA what, if anything, I'll be having and forget about a choice or pre-ordering. How is it that AA can serve meals AND offer choices in F on shorter duration flights like these and AS can't. Even a 3-1/2 hour flight from SEA to ANC on AS won't get you a choice or anything as nice as what AA is serving on these short hops.

Some may say that this is why AA is in bankruptcy, I'd like to think that this is their way out of it. Because if they ever came into the market that is 90% of my travel, I would status match and be all over them like white on rice.