Before you set your heart on the new A321, I would break the bad news to you that, it would be a miracle to just find award seat on either SFO-MIA or LAX-MIA direct flight, despite AA flies 3 times and 8 times a day respectively.

You should even consider yourself lucky to find a SFO-DFW-MIA or SFO-ORD-MIA.

These days, having 2 connections to go Transcon is the COMMON occurrence and often the only options available.

Trust me, I have been thru this often enough to just accept that if I can find SFO-DFW-MIA, I call it a success.

In my book, AA has been the new DL since 2 years ago. DL actually now is a lot better than AA when it comes to award availability, especially if you live in PDX or SEA - so much so, a friend based at PDX now is concentrating his focus in earning DL miles because it is just soooo much easier for him to find award seats to Europe/Asia and grasp, Australia...

And here we are, struggle to just want to find a lousy Transcon with one connection only...