Originally Posted by
AdamSouthFL
Where on the AA website is this written?
Here's one place, where it talks about it when you can checkin for your roundtrip flights Read the last sentence in the blue box.
http://www.aa.com/content/urls/checkin.jhtml
I will have to find the one where it doesn't mention return flights.
Logically, of course, the statement at the link above should mean that if you can get priority on your return flight, then you also get it on the outbound, but AA didn't write that section that way.