Mmm, I hope the flight I'm on serves polenta and kale!
Actually, neither AA nor AS has a non-stop from PDX to FLL, AS's only non stop is through SEA (also SAN I believe) at an ungodly hour, the AA options are much more tolerable (and no I don't want to fly to MIA).
In any event I did buy the tickets on AA through DFW and I'm sure they will be fine (1 hr 15 min connection). And I'll still get my AS miles (dried up all our AA miles a long time ago).
Another quick question about AA since I'm really not familiar with them anymore...on AS, if your ticket price drops, they give you the difference in the form of a credit, does AA do the same?
I really appreciate all the info here.