As in previous years, I thought we would have a poll to report sticker/EXP upgrade success rates. It's not perfect, but it's the best we can do with this software.
Please note the arbitrary limitation to requested sticker/EXP upgrades - please omit stats from Eagle segments, SWUs, long-haul international segments, etc. from your calculations. Also, based on last year's results, note that the GLD ranges have been decreased a bit.
Personally, as a PLT, I did more longhaul travel this year and, as a result, used more AAward Upgrades (12/12), so for my sticker segments, I was 4/6 = 67%.
As in previous years, I thought we would have a poll to report sticker/EXP upgrade success rates. It's not perfect, but it's the best we can do with this software.
Please note the arbitrary limitation to requested sticker/EXP upgrades - please omit stats from Eagle segments, SWUs, long-haul international segments, etc. from your calculations. Also, based on last year's results, note that the GLD ranges have been decreased a bit.
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I missed one out of 39 domestic upgrade requests, so 97.4% clearance rate. The only one I missed was SFO-JFK just before Christmas, and first class was sold out at least a week ahead on that one.
Actually did better than 2011 where I cleared 89% (25 of 28).
Still at 100% with systemwides and those numbers aren't included above. I did two paid Europe trips first half of the year (Madrid and Dublin). Had to curtail flights after the Olympics due to some family matters or would have done some more Europe travel year end.
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Surprisingly, it was 100% for me. I had one u/g that I did not think would clear (JFK-SFO on a Monday morning), and despite being #3 on the list when I checked-in, the GA paged me for the upgrade about five minutes before boarding.
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AA EXP
26/26 segment Complimentary Domestic only itinerary upgrades
9/9 SWU upgraded INTL flights (each included at least 1 domestic segment not in the above 26 count total. 1 SWU expired Feb '12, remainder were Feb '13)
As EXP 33/35 non AE segments cleared..Only 2 missed..ORD/LAX on a Tuesday morning during the Jan TEQM promotion and then a thru segment from DFW/AUS I was number 1 and missed. still 95% is good.
My upgrade rate was terrible this past year, below %50. I'm not sure why. I got upgraded on PDX-DFW-MIA routes, not even all the time there. I flew SFO-JFK, JFK-LAX, SFO-ORD, and similar popular routes with EXP's and i never got upgraded on any of those. I requested upgrades. I did get one at the gate last minute MIA-LAX upgrade which was nice. In previous years i got upgraded almost %100 of the time, so at least for me, the value of being EXP's dropped a LOT.
