Originally Posted by
aktchi
Prior to ticketing...If you don't cancel it, it will cancel itself after 24 hrs (or 72 for international?). Therefore, the "priviledge" you are really enjoying in that situation is not your ability to cancel, but that the airline is holding the reservation in the first place.
AA says that prices are not guaranteed, especially on non-AA sectors, until you actually buy the ticket, but in my limited experience they have always been honored till the very end.
I think you're actually missing the window between requesting the purchase (on request) and the ticketing action done by AA. That may be the fairly narrow window to cancel after one has agreed to purchase.
'No' was the prevalent correct answer to the OP's question.