Originally Posted by saint

Actually I just did exactly what the poster is talking about. I've been flying with AA a LONG time and never did this before (until this morning). I have so many future flights in my "Current Flights" section. I was deleting one of them that had expired that I didn't end up purchasing and I must have accidentally clicked on a flight I have in 2 weeks!

I immediately noticed the mistake and called the Executive Platinum Desk about 5 minutes after I did it. Unfortunately, the flights were oversold on part of the leg. I booked this MONTHS ago. I was also using some of my VIP upgrades for it. One portion was MIA to MAD on Iberia and they couldn't get those back.

I already have internal flights in Madrid and apartments paid for that I would have lost deposits on in Madrid and Barcelona. I ended up having to pay to go from MIA-SJU-MAD. For u$s 900 more!

What a stupid and costly mistake. I agree that at the confirmation to cancel it would be a good idea if they had a confirmation of which flights you are cancelling.

Has this happened to anyone else?? Yikes..... To make things worse the flights look full so I doubt I'll get upgraded now. There is only 1 unsold seat left. Before I was already cleared.