Originally Posted by
ThreeJulietTango
For award tickets, the original inventory must be available in order to SDFC. Assuming you're flying before February 2017, you would need Z availability on the earlier JFK-MIA flight. If it's not available, you may be able to standby for the flight regardless (AA's standby policy is frustratingly vague on this).
As an elite, you will be permitted to voluntarily separate yourself from your bag and it may go on the original flight.
In other words, for award tickets SDFC is "worthless" for Elites because you can always change Z/U/T at anytime as long there is inventory right? and people without status are on the same boat, because the fee for changes is free but if is less than 21 days, they will have to pay $75, which is the same as SDFC. But if I can standby is another option, but tha'ts means I will get my seat if something left after everyone clear ;(
Can you confirm something you wrote a few months ago?
...If the original flight leaves between 8 PM and midnight, you can SDFC to flights leaving from midnight to 2 AM on the following calendar day (but still the same night) and vice versa. This was revised around the same time that the routing/coterminal restrictions were added in July.
where the Agents can check this? because I tried use this a couple of months ago at the AC in JFK and they didn't know that, they even call another department and after checking for 10 minutes with a supervisor, they couldn't find anything. At that time, I had LAX-MIA at 12:05am and I tried to change to LAX-MIA 9:45pm or so. I was only able to standby at LAX for not SDFC (E was not available anymore).
Thank you ThreeJulietTango