Probably right on the prices ... I have been annoyed by the disappearance of the good codeshare prices for the AA flights operated by MU. The AA/MU flights show the discount and deep discount economy AA buckets (H, K, M, V, N) as open but obviously you can't buy them, at least not online from fare searching that I've done on this route. I think it is a function of AA trying to direct traffic to ORD-PVG instead.
As it is, I'm on MU 586 (AA 5790) on Saturday in J ... we'll see if I can start looking forward to MU in OW.