Well, everyone has their own hobby horse, and I've already divulged mine up-thread: AA754 (PHL-CDG) and AA755 (CDG-PHL; NB--usually not the same plane). Since mid-late May they are "reliably" being cancelled at least once a week on average, with no evident change in this rate in function of court orders (or anything else I am aware of).

Well, at quick glance at a few high frequency routes:

Yesterday's ORD-LHR included AA/86 late 2.5 hrs for maintenance.

Today's JFK-SFO includes AA/179 delayed 3.5+ hrs for maintenance.

So... I'd say they're not increasingly my confidence.

So when I look at live-cancelled at flightaware right now (Wednesday night), I see only 10 cancelled flights in the entire AA system and 87% on time. Is that not presenting an accurate picture of the operation? FWIW, there's only one cancelled in't flight on the list, CDG-CLT.

https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled

I had a fun one recently. Original routing was DEN-DFW-FCO-TGD, with the last leg on Alitalia. My first flight was delayed 30 minutes due to ATC holding planes at their origin due to weather at DFW. No worries, I had a 2 hour layover. Well, 30 minutes turned into an hour, which turned into two hours... by some miracle I arrived at DFW two gates from my connecting flight. I saw the 777 and the jetbridge still in place as we taxied into our gate. I ran over but... doors closed. A pile of people appeared behind me over the next few minutes. Bummer.

After a very long phone call I was finally rebooked DFW-FRA on Lufthansa and FRA-VIE-TGD on Austrian. Wasn't expecting to fly Star Alliance today, but I'll take it! Scary 1 hour connection in FRA... arriving at a remote gate, busing to the terminal, going through customs and walking to my connecting gate unbelievably only took 40 minutes and I made it with time to spare. In the end I was only 3 hours late to my destination despite the missed flight and extra connection, thanks AA.

I don't think it's so much about the cancellations as the delays.

Today: NRT-DFW AA/164 5+ hrs late (!) for maintenance. DFW-LHR AA/20 1:40 late for maintenance. Or SFO-JFK AA/164 3hrs late for maintenance. That's a lot of blown connections on those three flights. And that's just three routes.

Until they get the maintenance delays, they're not instilling any confidence.

AA36 DFW-MAD appears to have been delayed by maintenance; resulting in AA95 MAD-JFK potentially being delayed by around 3 hours.

As someone on AA95 today, I'll be hoping that delay grows to ensure I get a voucher for EU261!

M

That's pretty funny, since, because of the uncertainty regarding CDG-PHL,

I was just saying to a colleague that when the loss of a day is a trip-killer, maybe it makes sense to start booking CDG-CLT-PHL instead of CDG-PHL.

Showed me!

Hi All, long post here.
I've booked a package through Orbitz (I know, i know, never book through OTA's, this is my first time booking through anything but AA.com) on AA2777 connecting to FJ811 (DFW-LAX-NAN), with a 3 hour layover at LAX as scheduled. Unfortunately the inbound for tomorrow's AA2777 (AA24 operating DFW-MUC, and AA25 MUC-DFW) is significantly delayed (roughly 6.5 hours on AA24, with knock on effects to impact AA25, and thus AA2777). I've checked and every flight DFW-LAX tomorrow is showing as 0 availability, due I'm assuming, to the thunderstorms in Dallas earlier today.

My question is, given that there is only 1.5 flights a day from the US mainland to Fiji (7w from LAX, 3 w from SFO), what are my options here?

The way I see it, there's two options:
1)I see minimal availabilty left on DFW-SFO tomorrow, and plenty on SFO-NAN, so maybe a reroute through SFO
2) Rerouting DFW-SYD-NAN on QF/FJ

What do I do here? I know AA can't issue voluntary changes since the ticket is controlled by Orbitz. And I'm sure there's a 2 hour wait on the PLT line given the DFW Storms and Hurricane Dorian. Do I need to get on the phone with Orbitz now and see if they can do a re-route? My flight tomorrow is not yet showing as delayed, but given the details of the incoming flight, DFW Tstorms, and Dorian, I'm not all too positive AA will find a replacement by then.

Thanks!

Friday Aug 30. Extensive cancellations - weather?
 

The LAX flights out to DFW are all cancelled and heavily delayed (11 hours) apparently due to Tornados and heavy weather.

M

Been a while from me, but noticed that tonight's (9/11) AA160 ORD-ATH is running an impressive 8 hours late (and counting) due to crew availability. ETD is 1:30am and ETA is 7:00pm. The return has been delayed to an ungodly 8:15pm ETD 12:15am ETA. Yuck.

This has got to be a new low for a EU-bound flight. Surprised they didn't just pull the plug.

I wouldn’t be surpr