Good to hear from you again JayAlexandra. Kinda wondered how that China trip worked out. Since myidtravel, it's much easier to travel with backup options and not having to visit ticket counters anymore to buy and refund paper zeds. Over the summer, I ended up taking Alaska to LA and JetBlue back. Both were my plan B as both the outbound and return AA flights were delayed and oversold despite willing to burn a D1. I ended up in an exit row middle on Alaska (former Virgin America--> free order from your seat booze ) and even more space on JetBlue on the way back. Alaska was the first airline I've taken to serve rum that was not Bacardi. Took advantage of the self serve snack galley several times on JetBlue. I did the cherry blossom season in Tokyo once as well. We were on the way back from Thailand and had 2 days extra so we decided to stay, even though we only packed summer weather clothing. Unfortunately, AA dropped the JFK-NRT flight so it's not as easy a journey as it used to be. Also, they got rid of F on the 777-200 which was usually open for nonrevs. I impressed one of the DFW agents once when I asked to be rolled over from the third LGA flight I didn't make to a MEM flight with a connection to LGA. Flights were both wide open.

Hope you check in again and safe travels!