Originally Posted by MADPhil

You should be able to pursue the legal recovery methods on your own and gain the experience, but it may be a damp squib as AA don't seem to have much of a case and once their lawyers look at it they will probably capitulate.

I will be interested to see what the CoC and my boarding pass say when I use this route later in the year. Since they usually don't even tell you the gate until 45 minutes or so to departure it would be easy to fall foul of this "rule" but I try not to leave it that late.