Originally Posted by
beachfan
Book crap 2 connection overnight flights and wait for a schedule change. I don’t take the original crap booked flights.
Married segment with 6+ hour layovers work well. Works well for a dfw connection for a short overnight in a hotel vs trying to sleep on a red eye. I had booked my family of four on a transcon through Austin in J for roughly 25k miles each, each way. All these got re-booked with reasonable connections when AA rethought their Austin strategy.