I spoke to one of the AA telephone reps and she told me she has no idea why they changed the direct flights, but did say it’s ‘possible’ they might change them back. Her little tidbit of wisdom for me was, “the only definite about airline travel today is change.” Mmmm.

Thank you all for your responses. We live in Knoxville and normally drive the 3 hours to ATL and flly non-stop from there. But we’re bringing our son and DIL with us in November and they live in Charlotte. So we were attempting to fly AA this time from there. We’ll see what happens.