Originally Posted by
povertyjetset
I let the reservation expire and reserved it again. This time there was an AS red-eye flt leaving SEA after midnight to connect with AY10 at ORD but with a much longer connection time to explore the city and easily make it back for the 22:00 dep.
Thanks for all the advice.
^ That's the best solution of all.
Question: if the OP had booked the 39 minute connection, and then learned a few days later that it was a T3->T5 connection, and was successfully able to convince AA that this was indeed true (as their systems are obviously showing T3->T3), would they then force a seat on an earlier ORD-SEA flight? (Assume it has lots of availability in the cabin: just no award availability.) I can't imagine that they would invalidate the entire ticket...or would they?