Originally Posted by
dls25
In my experience, it has to be a legal connection for the app to work. If say an earlier flight is delayed and you potentially could catch it - it won't even show was an option because it was never a legal connection.
Exactly. And once you fly the first segment you can't SDC at all. It's too bad it's so broken/customer unfriendly. Would have certainly been better even for AA not to pay for someone to be bumped off a flight after they didn't let me onto an earlier flight with plenty of seats, after my connecting flight was early and had plenty of time to get an the earlier, otherwise illegal connection, flight.