I'm rebooking the remaining segments of an AONE3 for September, 2021 and booking DCA-JFK-SFO. When I search EF for DCA-SFO via JFK it shows D1 on the DCA-JFK segment and A3 on the JFK-SFO segment and there is no stopover as connection time is 4 hours and 35 minutes. So all is cool... but not so fast.

I called AA RTW desk and they can't see the A3 and Rebecca explained that since there is no first class A inventory on DCA-JFK segment then the segment can't be married in A class. I smell BS, but then again we're dealing with airline logic so who knows. And yes, if I look at only a JFK-SFO without any connections in EF A inventory is 0 so a married segment is required. And as I said above when searching EF for DCA-SFO via JFK it shows D1 for DCA-JFK and A3 for JFK-SFO.

I took and booked D inventory on the JFK-SFO segment and they waitlisted me for A on the JFK-SFO segment (yesterday) and I called back today and the waitlist was denied, so I waitlisted again for A class on that segment. I'll guess I'll be calling the AA RTW desk daily over the next 300 days requesting to be waitlisted as it doesn't appear they keep you waitlisted after denial.

FWIW, I wouldn't have this problem if domestic F was still A and F inventory, but this appears to be an unintended consequence of changing domestic first to J, D, I and R inventory.

Any insight, or better yet, help would be greatly appreciated.