Originally Posted by
smilee
Also don't hold your breath on the original routing credit - ORC , as I asked twice as an ExPlat 6 or so years ago when AA was a much friendlier airline. Denied both times.
Also in OMAAT thread
https://onemileatatime.com/american-ruined-my-trip/
As a blogger he couldn't even get it. Mind you in my opinion I didn't think that he really had a case their.
There’s a lot of evidence provided much more recently by members ORC is quite commonly, albeit not universally, granted in cases where AA has involuntarily rerouted passengers. Some of that evidence (and the conditions, terms to use) can be read in the thread linked to above, and I’ve read recent evidence in other venues.