u/Ikontwait4u2leave

So, I have CDG>LHR>ORD>BZN booked with AA miles for my honeymoon. Unfortunately, the LHR>ORD on AA metal had a schedule change, and now my ORD connection is only 45 minutes, well under the minimum connecting time and difficult if not impossible to make. I got an email from AA saying to call in because the system was unable to manually rebook me. I took a look and didn't see any great options. Any all-AA metal itineraries require an overnight stay in the US somewhere, which is undesirable. Looking at revenue fares, I do see CDG>DFW>SEA>BZN that would get me home without an overnight layover, but the last leg is AS and there is no award availability. If I call in now, are they just gonna offer me the overnight layover option, or is there a chance they can come up with something better using partner metal that I'm not seeing? I suppose I can just wait and see if availability opens up on that AS flight before calling (likely, we are 9 months out) or wait for another hopefully more favorable schedule change. What would you do?

I booked a really nice itinerary, CDG>LHR>ORD>BZN for 57.5k miles in Business to return from my honeymoon. Selected the Flagship Suite for free and everything. I was doing my monthly cruise through my award reservations to make sure nothing was messed up and I noticed that there had been a schedule change I wasn't notified of, and now the ORD connection is 45 minutes. Now, I'm probably not gonna change it if AA doesn't make me because there's not really a better alternative, we both have Global Entry and this is just EU 261 compensation waiting to happen, but is that even a legal connection at ORD? 45 minutes to get off the plane, clear immigration and customs, take the ATS from T5 to T-whatever, and re-clear security is borderline insane.