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JAXPax
It's also a matter of if AA wants to accept the tickets. Most FIMs are reimbursed between carriers through a clearinghouse at a defined rate by route/class (last time I saw the list, it's more closely tied to distance than anything). AA may not even want the tickets because they wouldn't get full value, or not same as what they'd get just selling the seats themselves (which they likely can with ease it sounds like).
Managed to get 3 of our party on the 5:53pm flight tomorrow. I don't want to go home before they do because they are elderly and I would want to be here in case their flight gets canceled or anything. That being said I will keep looking for inventory on their same flight or the later flight tomorrow.
As an update, a supervisor at UA tried to get me on the AA flights but said AA wouldn't "accept" the booking. They must have tried something because I can now see an AA record locator for my flight on the UA app (shows as valid but cancelled on aa.com). The supervisor was able to force a seat for me on the same flight the rest of my party albeit in coach. Hoping an F seat open up and the flight actually operates. Not sure how this works on UA as most of my travel is on AA; does a person who paid for F but is traveling coach get added to the same upgrade list as everyone else? On AA there is a special code that must be added to show that you are an F passenger but traveling in economy because of the involuntary downgrade.