Originally Posted by
wrp96
Flagship Business is just AA's name for longhaul business class. Sort of like UA uses Polaris, DL uses DeltaOne, BA uses Club World.
Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
Yea, don't read anything into it, any AA longhaul business = "Flagship" business, regardless of what aa.com says or doesn't say on the search results page. AA is horribly inconsistent with it's "Flagship" marketing.
Thanks guys, as I suspected. Zero meaning, inconsistent application. Thanks for the confirmations.The only reason I used the CLT route was that on the return, if all goes fairly well, I'll be home mid-afternoon!

(Of course a six-hour layover going out. And at CLT no less. Argh)