Originally Posted by
FlyerBeek
I'd take it, call it a win, and move on. Life is too short to be dealing with this! You mentioned your original ticket (half used) was $4000. If you take half that value and add the $900, I'd say $2900 is for LAX-LHR in F is a good price. YMMV.
I was thinking the same until I got to the "transatlantic I didn't want to take" part.
Anyway, it's clear AA wants as much breakage as possible with these credits, but the OP's case was the most convoluted redemption process I've seen. It's still unclear why they put him through all of this.