Here's my limited understanding...your boarding position is assigned at T-36 hours. The grand unified equation that incorporates your status (none, EBCI, A, AP), loyalty (current year's segments, points and $), purchase date, and price paid for ticket is a total mystery.
If your Rapid Rewards account reflects AP at T-36, you should be provided a boarding position ahead of A list passengers.
Originally Posted by
LakeCentralFlyer
What happens if you obtain A-List or A-List Preferred when you already have future flights booked?
For instance, I will be hitting A-List Preferred in a few weeks, but I already have several more flights booked later this year. Will they somehow automagically upgrade to A-List Preferred and update my boarding position?
I ask because I've seen a few discussions that say that your A-List or A-List Preferred boarding position is determined by when you bought the ticket. So right now those tickets are just assigned regular A-List positions... wondering if they will backdate and become A-List Preferred even if other A-List Preferred people have booked more recently (since technically mine was booked earlier), or if it will just add my bookings behind the more recent A-List Preferred bookings (since after all I just got the status) but in front of regular A-List bookings (where I would have been originally).