Originally Posted by
Globaliser
It's possible that the cancellation has only just occurred, because the flight's now no longer showing on the AA website. If it's one of those things that takes a few hours to propagate through the systems, then it may be that you coincidentally called soon after the cancellation had been effected.
Oh that could be why. Though I still see the flight in manage my booking with the aa website. I'll see how it goes! Thanks @
Globaliser!