<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ET:
One interesting tidbit that I used before was this: I never was able to use any of my earned upgrade coupons to upgrade. HOWEVER, I found out that (at that time, I think 2000 or 2001?) they would convert each 500mile upgrade cert to 2,500 AAdvantage miles. So when I earned 4coupons/10K flown over the 25K mark, I could turn them into 10K AA miles. I was very grateful someone told me about this, 'cause my upgrade coupons were expiring from non-use. I'd convert them to AA miles before they expired. Later however, I was told that each upgrade coupon only earned something like 500 miles?? I'm not sure of the reduced amount as I stopped earning the upgrades. And I'm not even sure how AA does upgrades these days since I don't fly them much anymore.</font>
Yep - that was a nice AA benefit that got ripped a year or two ago. I did a lot of "triple miles" flying as a Plat by trading back the earned upgrades. Sort of a bummer when that one went away...