Originally Posted by
NYCommuter
Is there anything to look for when boarding that will indicate that this issue is happening again, as I don't want to miss out on future mileage credit? Has this happened to others?
I've never had this happen to me in the several hundred flights I have taken on American. There is no reason to assume this is endemic and will ever happen to you again. It sounds like you got this resolved quickly enough and was at most a minor hassle.