Originally Posted by Unimatrix One

I ended up flying AA last year because irrops made me miss my JL connection. I was surprised at how nice the AA flight was. IMO AA has lots of little advantages over JL that help compensate for its shortcomings:

Better service flow (meals are faster, and the second meal is served closer to arrival, so they don't turn on the lights ridiculously early and wake everyone up).
Far better IFE.
Better dessert choices (as silly as the ice cream sundaes are, they are reliably good and always a good fallback if the other desserts are uninspiring).
Better lav-pax ratio than JL, at least on the 772s.
Much better overhead storage in J compared to JL A35K. (You may think I'm silly, but I've had experience on JL where the person across the aisle put their bag above my seat and then came to the bin multiple times during the flight, which then places their face right above my seat, which kills the privacy of the doored suite.)
J boards first (not after a million OWE members).
Decaf coffee that's actually good. (JL stopped serving Decaf, but the stuff they used to serve was garbage anyway.)
The Super Diamond seats on the 789s and over half the 772s are really nice. Not as good as Apex window seats, but better than Apex aisle seats.