JFK American Flagship Lounge

No Wifi makes you oblivious to the outside world.  So as we landed, I was pleased that we were on time, with only a 75 minute connection and we get true lie flat 1-1 seating back to LAX.   What could go wrong?  LOL.  Without on board Wifi, I  only got the wonderful news that our JFK-LAX had been CANCELLED as we were taxiing in.  "... This is American Airlines calling about a flight cancellation. We apologize for the inconvenience. There's been a cancellation for your trip on August 29 for travel from New York Kennedy to Los Angeles. Record locator BLAH-BLAH. We have rebooked you on another flight. You're now confirmed on flight 21 Departing August 29th from New York Kennedy at 7:00 PM. Arriving Los Angeles at 10:17 PM. Your seats are 3A and 3F.   Contact AA to check in for your flight view gate and terminal information and obtain check in time..."    Oh my, this day just keeps getting better and better.   What a garbage airline.  Apparently, 3 A321T transcons had mechanicals last night.  Our inbound was cancelled and there was no spare plane available.  

An AA employee met us at the door of the plane with the news we arleady knew and our new boarding passes for our flight 7 hours later.  So it was off to the First Class Flagship Lounge to assess our options.  The old Admirals Club in the main concourse was being renovated.

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But the Flagship Lounge was as always.

With no good options all day from JFK or even LGA, we were resigned to hanging out here for a while.  After 3 hours here, we headed out to Gate 39 to standby for the 3:30pm JFK-LAX, agreeing to accept a downgrade to Business Class rather than wait another 3-4 hours.   In the end, we were cleared into Business Class, albeit in different parts of the cabin.   I was originally assigned 10A but when I saw dad and a lap child in 10C, I made a U-turn back to the gate and managed to eventually get 9C when that person didn't show up.   OK, it's still better than regular domestic First but...

The Salad was terrible and the Char Siu Duck not much better. 

On the other hand, the Cumin Rubbed Pan Roasted Chicken was quite good, kind of reminiscent of regular AA domestic meals before US Airways took over and trashed the airline.

Meanwhile up in 6C, Mrs. SFO777 wisely passed on the meal and slept for a few hours. 

And then there was my creepy seat mate, who thought the seat divider was his and his alone.   

Mercifully, our long day was finally over.  And some good news at last.  There was no traffic on the 405 and we were home in an hour.    Thank you for following along on this report.