Originally Posted by
tfizzle
This has been a really helpful post but I haven't read all of them, but perhaps a summary is in order from my reading that would simply be.
If you paid for a J seat, be patient, don't get flustered, don't immediately accept their downgrade and ask them to fix the problem they created?
And then have them shut the boarding door in your face and tell you the next flight is 2 days later? Which is what happened. So I don't think that's a good summary or necessarily good advice.
There probably wasn't anything the OP could have done to get into J on the original flight, he was effectively between a rock and a hard place given AA's policies and practices. And like I posited earlier in this thread, if his flight was 2 minutes later and he got to the gate
after the door had closed, we wouldn't be having any of this discussion.