[DCA] Why was our flight cancelled?
AA3194- [DCA to CLT] Our 6:47am flight was cancelled. Hardware was due in last night, so first flight for this plane today.
Missed the 4:30 am text notification (getting dressed for 5am Lyft) but thankfully saw it while we were on our way to DCA, called EP Desk and Aurelia rallied for us, re-routing via MIA. Made the 6:07am DCA to MIA flight by the skin of our teeth—again, thanks to desk agent who did a work-around to check us in and get my checked bag on the plane past the system cut-off time.
Looked like a very tight connection in MIA but, again, wonderful pilot and clear skies had us at the gate 20 minutes early so we made our gate just after boarding had begun, despite being seated in row 17 (we booked and paid for First).
So, two questions:
Anyone have access to info on why that flight was cancelled?
Given the cancellation, rerouting, and loss of first class seats on DCA to MIA, any advice/wisdom on how/if we can get partial refund?
[Headed to Barbados (Yay!) and will actually arrive an hour earlier and in FC instead of losing the entire day and flying in Main Cabin—both of which were the case if we’d accepted the much later flights they tried to rebook us on.]
TIA