stant

I know some flights have been canceled because of AA rejigging their schedule, but this cant be right....

A few days ago I started to look for a few more TPA - LHR flights in the next 60 days. I always prefer to connect in DFW whenever possible.
When I searched at first i literally found NO DFW connecting flights in the search returns. Yet when I looked for TPA-DFW and DFW-LHR both were wide open. A few days later I look again and I did find a DFW connection or two, WAY down at the bottom of the list. I went to look again tonight and I'm seeing the odd DFW connection but with crazy prices, like J for $3k MORE than F (both refundable).

other than looking for individual segments like I did before, is there any way to limit my search results to a specific connecting city? For whatever reason the results I'm getting now just arent making sense...

TIA

HaleiwaFlyer

AA crappy IT schedule optimization strikes again. Pretty much the flights you want are bookable via multi city booking; otherwise AAs IT somehow think the connections you want aren’t optimal. Unfortunately, the issue is the higher cost.

I think AA IT is forcing you to purchase the routes they think are optimal for their operations...outside those parameters, costs goes up.

777lover

sounds like journey control. Try a multi OnStar h via DFW on GF and then see if I can get a DFW connection and then click the button book with AA

777lover

so how is this crappy IT? I. Fact, it pretty damn good IT — journey control is working

Herb687

O&D inventory management. Perhaps the TPA-LON fare you want to buy is so cheap that AA would rather hold out for higher yielding local traffic.

Stripe

Are you getting no connections or just no connections through DFW? Do you see ORD connections? Could be AA is trying to push more Florida to Europe flights through their east coast hubs in order to keep more capacity through DFW for those originating further west.

Herb687

Yep. Likely working exactly as designed. A rarity at AA these days. Shutting down crap flow traffic until it's needed to fill the plane is the whole point of that hi-falutin high tech big data innovation of the 1980s known as O&D yield management.

stant

I'm basically seeing everything but DFW
ORD, MIA, CLT, etc

and I'm seeing other weird things, like if I want the morning flight in F it's 13k, if I want the afternoon (arrival) flight it's 5 thousand cheaper. not just 1 day here and one day there, but on over a dozen date pairs.

Herb687

Do you mean F or C? Isn't DFW the only one of those gateways you mention that still offers F to LHR?

stant

flagship first, and i worded things a bit sloppy. When looking for a premium cabin seat, this is what I find. so F via dfw, but J in most other hubs.

Hot Pocket

I am noticing the same thing, that AA does not want to sell me Florida to LHR via DFW. Where I would much rather connect due to the FL access and longer sleeping time. It’s bizarre

HaleiwaFlyer

It’s crappy for the folks who want a non optimal specific routes, like the OP.

Also for myself, HNL-DFW-PDX use to be easily bookable for a reasonable price via one way or round trip….and AAs IT caught on to it now…..more than doubled the price now and have to usually book multi city.

Fanjet

Does this really have something to due with DFW in particular? Or is it just that AA prefers to route FL to LHR traffic over MIA/CLT/PHL? I have had zero problems pulling up SAN-LHR flights routing over DFW at all (in the lowest fare buckets).

Stripe

Try booking with ITA matrix tool to force the connection, then use Book With Matrix to have it show up on aa.com.

stant

Well, it's offering me every other routing other than TPA-LAX-LHR, even 24 hr+ 2 connection options - in fact thats about the only time I see DFW.