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Mar 17, 2015, 1:24 pm

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sukn

Join Date: May 2007

Programs: AAdvantage, Hilton

Posts: 3,191

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Originally Posted by unhappyflyer

Lately, the last few weeks, it seems like AA has eliminated the upgrade window almost completely. For my last few flights inventory has been abundant and still no upgrade in advance of 4 hours. For example on a flight in 5 hours all categories are at 7 (F7 through A6, T7) and still no upgrade. And this is what I have been seeing for the past 10 days. The results are the same so not a big deal, but is anybody else seeing this. Im EXP.

Don't know if this applies to your specific situation, but whenever Y is oversold, the system stops processing upgrades until very late in the game.

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