kyklin, fight for the bonuses too. And the platinum qualifying. Try not to be rebooked on JL or CP though--you might have trouble getting AA miles for both a non-flown segment and a flown segment.

Honestly, I'd just let them send me to JFK and hop on UA or NW, or to IAD and get on ANA, or to ATL with DL. Your best bet is to get on the overwater hop as far east as you can which should minimize the impacts of people with cancelled flights further west (someone on a flight ORD/SEA/NRT probably isn't going to fly ORD-JFK-NRT).