Thanks for the reply, fair enough, I kinda don't think there'd be too many elites on that flight at that time of year and mid week, but I could be wrong. I know flying on UA the J cabin never seems to fly un-full. They go deep on the elite list and there seems to be about a million elites. AA could very well be the same, I don't have the experience flying them.
I'm a Y guy though, so if I gotta do it, I gotta do it
no biggie