Originally Posted by
SpaethCo
In general, no. In some cases you can apparently get them to take over a reservation if you pay $50, but I don't know under which conditions that's permitted.
In general, the credit is stuck with Chase travel and still locked to be reapplied to a future AA flight. Unlike Delta where it's basically cash in your account that can be re-applied liberally to future bookings, several people have reported that the AA third party credit can only be applied to specific fare classes when attempting to re-book, and if the replacement flight is cheaper in most cases you forfeit any residual value once the credit is applied to the new flights.
AA isn't exactly a great airline to book third party.
Ok,Thanks. I've seen these horror stories before on the forums and such with AA (credit locked to certain destination, no residual value of new flight is cheaper, etc) but have had good luck using the portal for simple direct Delta flights many times. I figured Id see if anything significant changed for the better but it doesn't seem that way