Originally Posted by
cedric
Did you get your ticket reissued / rebooked on the IB flight numbers?
AA has a finite amount of 4 digit flight numbers. They can't codeshare on every single partner flight, and sometimes shuffle things around.
I have experienced this with partners other than IB, such as AS.
In that case, they moved me to a different AS flight that operated later the same day, because the one I was on dropped the AA codeshare but the later one still had an AA codeshare.
Not wanting to sit around Seattle for 8 hours, I asked AA to put me back on the same flight under the AS flight number.
AA was unable to accommodate me back on the AS-flight number of the original flight, saying they couldn't see it in their systems. Until I sent them a screenshot on Twitter from AA.com showing the original flight with an AS number as a valid option and they were eventually able to make it happen.
If you're having trouble getting rebooked onto the IB flight numbers, then try that method.
There was no issue staying on the same flights in the same seats, they just couldn't do it automatically. Since they deleted all the AA code shares into Almería(LEI), they couldn't rebook me automatically. Going forward I should never have this problem again, unless they bring back the code shares on flights into LEI. I just checked, Through Next April, All AA tickets show an IB flight number for the MAD>LEI Leg. Very few Americans go to this destination, that is probably the main reason it got dropped.
It is only bothersome, because I get so many emails, if I missed this email then they would cancel the whole itinerary.