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Aug 31, 2018 | 8:24 am

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Originally Posted by tphuang

Question here. I have a flight out from JFK to MXP on Sep 8 and I've put myself on the copay + miles upgrade list. I'm 8 days out from flying. There looks to still be 21 seats open still (including 1 blocked seat). When do they typically start releasing seats for upgrades? I can see that milesaver for business is not available.

For a flight that empty, it typically starts around a week out, so anytime now. I flew MIA-MXP in April, equally as empty business cabin, and both ways upgrades didn't clear till 1-2 days before.