Originally Posted by
KARFA
I think there is some confusion. 300 miles is if you were changing departure point, i.e. you are changing your ORD-LHR to DFW-LHR. That is not what you wanted to do.
What haroon145 was suggesting was you ask for your ORD-LHR to be changed to ORD-DFW-LHR, with ORD-DFW on AA included. That should have been fine if it was a reasonable option to maintain your F cabin and involved no change in departure point.
Actually I did ask to change the departure point from ORD to DFW to stay in F. Flying nonstop in F DFW-LHR would have been fine but I didn't want to add ORD-DFW simply to stay in F on on the TATL portion. It isn't worth the added time and connection. Therefore I am happy to fly ORD-LHR (only 8 hours) in a club suite and receive downgrade compensation.