Originally Posted by
Viajero
Arrangements made by the airlines to get around cancellations, INVOL reroutes, equipment changes and the like do not - should not - affect the rules in place in any way. Just make sure your PNR is annotated by AA and you should have no problems at all.
Second that. I had a similar issue with my recent *A RTW. After ticketing a schedule change to one flight, which forced a change in the next flight and meant the following stopover was no longer a stopover, reducing me to 2 instead of the required 3 minimum. However as this was an INVOL CHG and noted as such there was no problem even when I subsequently had to reissue the ticket (for a schedule change on another flight which caused a reroute).