Scubaman--as far as refunding FEES to re-deposit miles, their policy has always been that it costs like $100 to re-deposit miles. I haven't tried to re-deposit miles since Covid, but pre-Covid, they were enforcing the fee to re-deposit miles, to ME. Now, you are a lot higher tier with AA than we are, so perhaps you weren't charged, but we were.. You could change DATES without a fee, but not re-deposit miles.