Originally Posted by justageek
The even more unfortunate thing that I mentioned in my OP is that AA is not interested in taking customers from the west coast to Asia at all, even through DFW or ORD, as evidenced by their scheduling of the PVG flight and the proposed PEK flight to misconnect with even the earliest hub departures from the west coast.
Indeed, I tried to hold an award tix on SFO<->PVG route, it came up SFO->ORD->PVG->ORD->SFO and the SFO->ORD is a red-eye. I also tried SJC<->PVG, AA website said AA does not fly SJC.