Originally Posted by number_6
There is 0 chance of D inventory opening up on JFK-SYD. They save it for oversells when it is down to 0 and some cancels occur.
This flight is not oversold, so I don't agree with the zero chance of D opening up. Right now it is showing F3A3Z0P0J9C0D0I0U0Y9B9H9K9 and I have seen D inventory open up in cases like this many times before.
The cancel button is quite potent on aa.com, I've canceled a few reservations by mistake when my mouse missed by 1, and the confirmation screen before the cancel is really not useful (as it doesn't provide the routing to identify your reservation). I've learned to name all my reservations on aa.com rather than leaving it the system generated name, which helps a bit with this problem. I've never seen Sabre make a mistake in the history of the reservation, so I'm sure it was from your computer.
I was able to replicate what I think happened to my reservation using someone else's account (didn't want to play with mine anymore!)
- Put reservation 1 on hold DCA-DFW
- Put reservation 2 on hold LAX-SFO
- Open reservation 2 back up, hit cancel
- Cancellation Notice comes up saying "Are you sure you want to cancel the selected reservation?"
- I forgot about that screen and opened other tabs in Firefox.
- Eventually I open up reservation 1 (DCA-DFW)
- Close that tab
- Go back to the other tab that has the cancellation notice and absolutely no details about what I am canceling.
- Click Yes.
- Go back to My Reservations.
- Reservation 1 and not 2 is canceled.
It wouldn't matter if I had my reservations named, and like Viajero said, you cannot name reservations that are not made on AA.com.