Well that was an unpleasent surprise today. Can confirm that MCE is no longer included for basic economy tickets on American. Coming back from MAD-JFK I even booked an IB codeshare on AA so I could get free MCE instead of take my chances with exit row XL seats. No dice.Will be interesting to see if the O class IB flight number on AA posts as 25% miles on Alaska or if I've lost a few thousand RDM by taking the AA flight.