Originally Posted by
shoxwort
...I would like full compensation for all additional costs from this trip and my other two (since I didn't end up getting compensation like I should have), and in addition to that would like American to make amends by treating me and my wife to a trip somewhere since they've cost us valuable time together that we may never get back, as well as the vacation days they've stolen from me.
There isn't the -slightest- possibility of those things happening.
You can and should write in after any trip where there are serious screw-ups and ask for compensation. And,for the most recent set of circumstances (which sound awful,) you should push as hard as you can for some kind of compensation.
But looking for a catch-up/make-up omnibus compensation-response as you detail isn't in the realm of possibility.