thestallion123

I applied 4 of my friends evip's for the following itinerary for myself and my wife:

BOS-ORD-DEL (Feb14th,2008-Thursday)
DEL-ORD-BOS (March 13th,2008-Thursday)

These EVIP's were applied in Decemeber. I have a gold status with AA and my wife does not have an Elite Status with AA. For some reason one of the EVIP's got cleared for my wife's return from DEL-ORD-BOS within 2 days of applying the upgrades and mine did not . I spoke to AA today and they managed to apply the EVIP's and confirm all the domestic segments for now for me and my wife. What do you think are the chances of getting upgraded for the international segments on this flight? The following segments are waitlisted at the moment:

ORD-DEL and DEL-ORD for me.
ORD-DEL for my wife.

Thanks
AK

FWAAA

45.63%.

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thestallion123

If there is any one who flies this route often should be able to shed some more light on this.

iamthehpt

I only flew ORD-DEL once in the past year -- last May, to be exact. Got waitlisted, upgrades came thru about 1 month before the flight from DEL-ORD and about 3 weeks before the flight for ORD-DEL. Just a one time occurence, so I'm not sure if this is much help, but information never hurts.

HNL

You got that decimal point in the wrong spot...

My patented Upgrade Calculating Program puts the odds at 4.56%

AA53

FA wife flies this trip often. Very full loads of full fare pax in J and F.

ijgordon

Nobody flies this route often enough to give you more than vague anecdotal evidence.
Besides, what would you do if we told you the chances really were 4.56%?

mvoight

The odds are X, the unknown.
I find it interesting that in the thousands of years since the creation of algebra, x is still unknown.

If you want to use EVIPs, I think it is better to book flights that have availability when you book them. It seems a bit wasteful to spend EVIPS on a ORD-BOS roundtrip.

Deltahater

probably one of the WORST routes to hope for an upgrade without any status on AA.

Seems like everybody and their mother is going to India in February. That is probably because everybody and their mother IS going back to India in February. Remarkably, it is also the high season there...

So, my vote is enjoy your your BOS-ORD upgrade...and don't cry in 32F to Delhi

skywalkerLAX

All eVIPs that I applied to my flights last year cleared between 6 weeks and 4 days before departure. Never immediately.

Even though India has quiet alot of frequent flyers you should be safe as they have even more leisure travellers

dayone

Although you offer a reasonable estimate, only HNL can provide an exact percentage.

FWAAA

You're welcome.

I've applied over 100 VIP upgrades in the last decade and only one has failed to clear, so I'm batting ove .990.

Problem is, there aren't enough Gold status flyers applying eVIPs on DEL flights to compile a reliable data set.

I've flown to DEL and back twice and my upgrades have all cleared. But that evidence really doesn't have anything to do with the odds that your upgrade requests will clear.

There really isn't anything you can do now to increase those odds. It clears or it doesn't; and sitting in coach on this flight would really suck. I hope your upgrades clear. Good luck.

My bad - decimals and percentages have never been my strong suit.

sukn

Contrary to much of what has been posted in this thread, I believe this is one of the easier routes for using eVips. My family and I have requested and cleared the use of 12 eVips thus far and are currently waitlisted for two more in February. Mind you, most of the eVips were waitlisted at the time of booking. Also, I've been able to find inventory when changing return dates by a few weeks. Lastly, in my short time here on FT, I cannot recall a post where someone's DEL eVip had not cleared.

February is NOT the peak season for US-INDIA bound routes. Peak season generally ends on January 15th, after which time fares often drop. A March return also falls during shoulder season. In fact, my sister did the ZRH-BOM route on Swiss yesterday and she noted the flight was quite empty in Y.

If you and your wife are not on the same PNR, it is important to call AA and link the PNRs especially since one of you has status and the other does not.

Enjoy your trip. I'm enjoying mine at this very moment.

ChicagoAA

Feb 2007, I got upgrades both ways, although the return did not come through until after we had boarded. My friend (no status) only got an upgrade on the outbound flight.

3Cforme

For all this talk of eVIPS clearing, is it relevant that the OP is Gold, and travel companion an AA nobody?