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Old Mar 23, 2012 | 12:29 pm
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Originally Posted by goodeats21
I thought AA gave 8 upgrade certs which could be used on any fare, which is better than what UA offers. Would you explain what is lacking from the AA offering. I am not an AA expert, but have been looking at them lately (along with a lot of 1Ks, I suspect). If there is a downside here, I would like to learn about it.
AA doesn't give CR-1s, so the 8 SWUs correspond to UA's 6 SWUs + 4 CR-1s (or, more if you fly over 100K).
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