Thank you AA
 

If you recall on Aug 5th, AA's system went down and you could not make, book or change reservations.

Well, I was able to make one seconds before the system went down. The status was "pending" and did not go to "ticketed". After the system came back up the next day, I called AA and they could not find my reservation. They advised me to rebook. I rebooked, for the same trip, just slightly different dates (+3 days).

To my surprise, I now have two reservations for the same trip. I called AA and they cancelled the original reservation without any fuss or difficulty or fees.
Just wanting to say that I appreciate an airline that applies common sense and puts the customer first. Thank you AA.

Thank you, Deltahater. I've always said that if you're going to complain (publicly or privately) when things go extraordinarily wrong, you have an obligation to praise when things go exceptionally right. Plenty o' complaining on FT, but a there's a bit less praise, IMO.

Well understated. :)

May have to rethink his name a bit then, e.g., Deltahaterninetyninepercentile.

Of course I kid but in this case it was the game he hated and not the playa' :)

Agree & one of the reasons I keep loyal is I have found in many instances such as this (or one which can be settled by common sense), AA has been more than reasonable in solving an issue to my satisfaction.

It's always nice to see a positive remark about our beloved AA. They've been under such scrutiny lately, that this positive is certainly welcomed.

Well, I think the posts here represent one reason so many AA customers oppose the merger. AA is far from perfect, and certainly can frustrate customers at times. But from what we know about the US management (and the UA management, for that matter), the current management and corporate culture at AA is more customer friendly than they would be if the merger goes through. (I really wanted to write "went through," putting the possibility in the past tense, but this game is by no means over.)

I'll add last nights positive to this as well, especially as it started out as a negative.

FLL-DFW-SFO with a 50 minute connection. Got a text about 3 hours before that FLL-DFW would be 12 minutes lat. OK. 38 minutes. At the airport, the plane got in late, took longer to clean (passenger got sick, so not AA's fault). Kept rolling. Left 36 minutes late. Then a short weather hold. At take-off, we would arrive (A37) maybe 5 minutes before DFW-SFO (C14) left.

Got in a little earlier, called EXP desk to have them call DFW-SFO. Did the OJ airport thing using Skylink (held the door open for an extra 10 seconds for mrs. brp to run up the escalator. Made it from one plane onto the second in 8 minutes...as we approached, they said "slow down, we're holding it for you." We took about a 13 minute delay as they waited for others, some (mabe all) from the same flight.

Last flight out to SFO of the night. Really short delay, and about 8 or 9 happy campers.

Cheers.

I had a similar experience a few weeks ago connecting to the last DFW-IAH of the day, which was delay due to T-storms in the area. Albeit, I was already on the plane when they decided to reattach the jet bridge to wait for other connecting pax so I may not have been the happiest camper on board. But either way, it was nice of 'em to do it. Kudos.

Even if one ends up labelled an AApologist, I agree.

I have several experiences that reassure me I've made the right decision choosing AA as my "always" airline. And since everyone I know flies AirCanada instead and since it's arite of Canadian citizenship to hate AirCanada, I'm a happy outlier.

AA is full of faults and it's healthy for us to expose them, discuss them and yes, moan about them. I've got my share of AA problems, still unresolved.

But one has to choose from the real choices available. AA's mine and I am confident I made the right one, on balance.

I will have to say ... if AA's pain is the equivalent of getting slapped in the face at a bar ... then UA's pain is taking a knife and getting hit in the liver (making it hurt and not allowing me to drink more) ....

Had my first flight on AA in nearly 10 months and my god how I have even missed American (even Eagle) ....

So thank you for american for keeping it real ... I will try to make all my flying to the east coast on you guys and will suck it up on the 75mile drive each way-to-and-from the airport ....

Like the yogurt pretzels ... they go well with the bourbon .... though EWR AC needs an air 'freshner' :-) People that actually care and give a d*mn (or at least pretend)

+-ADT

Well said. This actually goes for every airline.

LOL! And true...

This is exactly one of the reasons I continue flying with AA, even when UA has much better schedule from HI. Great customer service and common sense.

Somewhat related, used aa hotel site, redeemed miles for a hotel stay, was not pleased, aa came back and refunded me. Was very pleased due to aa response, not pleased with hotel