Originally Posted by
jamienbaker
All - an upcoming flight of mine, 13 days out, released 7 seats into C at around 1015 EST.
How do you know when the C inventory was released? Did you search EF at 1010 and then again at 1015? And how do you know that it was exactly 7? AA inventory maxes at 7 in any bucket, so it could have been 8 or more, no?
Originally Posted by
jamienbaker
Naturally, I rang and grabbed one with an eVIP, likely jumping the queue in the process.
I'm not seeing anything to support a suspicion that you jumped the queue. Unless you know that you were not next up on the waitlist, what evidence do we have? For all we know, you rang AA immediately prior to its automated system allocating one of the (at least 7) seats to you.
One thing I've never seen addressed is how quickly AA assigns C (or A) to those on the waitlist. Is there a one minute delay between release of inventory and processing of your upgrade? Or 10 minutes? Or an hour? I don't think that's ever been answered here.
Originally Posted by
jamienbaker
No way to tell if we actually jumped the queue, though seems likely we did.
Exactly. If you search EF and find C inventory and you call AA on behalf of a nonelite or Gold and you're able to confirm the upgrade on the phone, that would cause me to suspect that maybe you jumped the queue. But in your situation this morning, you're an EXP and probably pretty high on the waitlist. So I don't see anything to suggest that you jumped the line this morning.