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Dec 3, 2008 | 7:13 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zski1

A couple comments:

1) To the poster that said that the OP will get at best a 20% upgrade percentage on AA -- that's not necessarily the case; since the OP will be traveling internationally, they might upgrade using miles & copay on their international trips while still earning upgrade stickers to use on their domestic flights, thus securing upgrades on more than 20% of travel.

I said that "free upgrades, best case, will be 20% of travel", and if measured by miles flown, that holds.

But yes, if you fly long haul international (upgraded or not), those miles earn stickers that can be used domestically, so your domestic % may be better than 20% as a result.