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view-with-a-room Mar 10, 2026 9:34 am


Originally Posted by precision80 (Post 37640975)
They cancelled my mid-april flight and confirmed its pushed back until 4/23

EDIT- Not sure if this should go in another section, but can anyone offer some guidance on how I can get rebooked on another carrier. AA is saying this is a schedule change, and made more than 72 hours so IROPS shouldn't apply, however my argument is this is a Significant Change and I should be moved to another airline even if an award seat Biz is not available. Its their responsibility to get me there in the cabin I was ticketed in, not "only if an award is available"
Am I wrong?

"If your flight was delayed or canceled and you don't accept our alternative arrangements, or none were available, we'll refund..."

For Tel Aviv flights, I don't think AA wants to be involved in providing alternate accommodations as the alternate accommodations are typically cancelled at some point also. Prior bookings were cancelled without alternatives. I have a booking in December on AA and a booking in February on AA. Until the "Bombs bursting in air" cease, the issues do not cease.

Antarius Mar 10, 2026 9:48 am


Originally Posted by precision80 (Post 37640975)
EDIT- Not sure if this should go in another section, but can anyone offer some guidance on how I can get rebooked on another carrier. AA is saying this is a schedule change, and made more than 72 hours so IROPS shouldn't apply, however my argument is this is a Significant Change and I should be moved to another airline even if an award seat Biz is not available. Its their responsibility to get me there in the cabin I was ticketed in, not "only if an award is available"
Am I wrong?

Significant changes in advance don't offer carte blanche to be rebooked on other carriers. AA will offer to rebook you on the next viable flight they have or give you a refund.

AA won't rebook you on another airline.

precision80 Mar 10, 2026 10:18 am


Originally Posted by Antarius (Post 37641153)
Significant changes in advance don't offer carte blanche to be rebooked on other carriers. AA will offer to rebook you on the next viable flight they have or give you a refund.

AA won't rebook you on another airline.

I thought discontinued service or market exits are protected under the contract of carriage and requires them to get a passenger to their destination if other airlines go there

Antarius Mar 10, 2026 10:29 am


Originally Posted by precision80 (Post 37641206)
I thought discontinued service or market exits are protected under the contract of carriage and requires them to get a passenger to their destination if other airlines go there

Can you point us to that verbiage?

Im not aware of that. In my experience, advance schedule changes and cancelations have been limited to refunds or alternative arrangements by AA (and possibly their JV partners).

I was flying DFW-LHR-somewhere in Europe (cant remember exactly) and BA axed the route. I didn't want to cancel the trip, so AA let me drop the last segment and end in LHR.

view-with-a-room Mar 10, 2026 10:37 am


Originally Posted by precision80 (Post 37641206)
I thought discontinued service or market exits are protected under the contract of carriage and requires them to get a passenger to their destination if other airlines go there

AA conditions of carriage

https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-ser...p?locale=en_CN

AA is only obligated to refund.

precision80 Mar 10, 2026 10:54 am


Originally Posted by view-with-a-room (Post 37641235)
AA conditions of carriage

https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-ser...p?locale=en_CN

AA is only obligated to refund.


They issued a travel notice that talks about rebooking

view-with-a-room Mar 10, 2026 12:40 pm


Originally Posted by precision80 (Post 37641262)
They issued a travel notice that talks about rebooking

Post the notice.

precision80 Mar 10, 2026 12:46 pm


Originally Posted by view-with-a-room (Post 37641457)
Post the notice.

https://saleslink.aa.com/en-US%3C-%3...-3-4-2026.html

Antarius Mar 10, 2026 2:34 pm


Originally Posted by precision80 (Post 37641471)

This is a fairly standard waiver. It allows for AA and JV partner rebooking.

All fare rules are also in effect except for the following:


Exception to Fare Rules: All fare rules apply with the exception of the following:
  • Advance Purchase requirement waived
  • Minimum/Maximum Stay requirement waived
  • Change Fee waived
  • When changes to the outbound travel occur, the unaffected return date may be changed to protect the original length of the trip. The return travel must be booked in the original class of service (inventory).

Functionally, if you can find an flight on the following
  • Aer Lingus (El) / AA*El
  • British Airways (BA) / AA*BA
  • Finnair (AY) / AA*AY
  • Iberia (IB) / AA*IB
with inventory that AA can access, then you can get rebooked.

AA won't rebook you on LY or another airline.

TWA884 Mar 10, 2026 2:59 pm


Originally Posted by precision80 (Post 37641471)

This does not seem to affect flights operated by AA, only those operated by travel partners.

American Airlines has implemented a special exception policy to our travel partners that is now available for our mutual customers due to the current situation in the area.
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Impacted Travel Dates:
February 26, 2026 - March 15, 2026

New Travel Dates:
February 26, 2026 - March 29, 2026
Your mid-April flight falls outside the dates covered by the linked travel notice.

precision80 Mar 10, 2026 3:34 pm


Originally Posted by TWA884 (Post 37641688)
This does not seem to affect flights operated by AA, only those operated by travel partners.Your mid-April flight falls outside the dates covered by the linked travel notice.

Yes, it hasn't been updated yet.

Also, I just found this in their guide-
If AA/AA* codeshare/JB Prime flights are no longer offered, it is permitted to book on ‘another’ airline as:

o oneworld Prime, must be allowed within the ticketed fare rule and the correct RBD inventory for that carrier must be used

o OA Prime (non-JB, non-oneworld), must be allowed within the ticketed fare rule and the correct RBD inventory for that carrier must be used



nyalancat Mar 10, 2026 5:50 pm


Originally Posted by TWA884 (Post 37641688)
This does not seem to affect flights operated by AA, only those operated by travel partners.Your mid-April flight falls outside the dates covered by the linked travel notice.

IIRC "travel partners" in this wording means "travel agencies", see the reference to "mutual customers". My understanding is as follows: SalesLink is the resource for third parties issuing AA tickets. The waivers listed on SalesLink are not guaranteed to match AA's internal policies for tickets that they own, but it gives a good indication of what said polices are.

Mrp Alert Mar 29, 2026 4:18 pm

Anyone have any updates on this? On my outbound, AF changed my departing TLV ticket to Aqaba on Royal Jordanian / Lufthansa combination while I cancelled my AA itinerary. For my return to TLV, I have both AA & AF flights to TLV and am deciding which will be rebooked better.

TWA884 Mar 29, 2026 4:51 pm


Originally Posted by Mrp Alert (Post 37675864)
Anyone have any updates on this? On my outbound, AF changed my departing TLV ticket to Aqaba on Royal Jordanian / Lufthansa combination while I cancelled my AA itinerary. For my return to TLV, I have both AA & AF flights to TLV and am deciding which will be rebooked better.

According to Dan's Deals, AA has cancelled flights to/from Tel Aviv through 7/1.

worldiswide Mar 29, 2026 8:55 pm

We had flights jfk to tlv on May 21. Received a there's been a change to your flight and we can't auto rebook today from AA. We had originally planned to fly ord mad tlv on iberia which cancelled the mad to tlv last week and AA put us on the JFK flight last week. Time to refund and schedule for later.


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