Yea, thankfully we ended up getting on our flight as stand bys. Crisis averted, but still aggravating none the less.

I feel like we did everything right. We had our seats assigned, I printed out our itinerary from Iberia that also had us in seats 9a and 9b, and the status was "confirmed".

I'm worried this is going to happen again on Wednesday as we make our way to Copenhagen from Lisbon on Iberia. They were so unhelpful during the whole thing. They made it sound like this is normally what happens when you make an award booking with AA on Iberia.