Originally Posted by
nologic
They have 30 open F seats on 3 flights within a 4 hour window from ORD-BOS. I would understand everything you are saying if they held back some seats: maybe F4...but so many on so many flights seems unusually excessive.
Assume all of those flights are MD80s/738s, with 16F. That means there are at least 18 pax who paid for "First Class", either F or YUP or Z Award. What if a bunch of them want to make changes to their itineraries 4 hours in advance -- shouldn't AA design its system to allow for paying F pax to have a reasonable shot of coming ahead of free upgraders?
What if there are a lot of people connecting XXX-ORD-BOS earlier that day on paid F? Until those XXX-ORD flights are actually in the air, and AA can have a much better certainty as to the chances of those earlier F pax making their flights, shouldn't AA design its system to reaccommodate anyone delayed on an international itinerary in their paid F cabin?
There are lots of other hypotheticals that people could cite.