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Dec 26, 2018 | 9:57 pm

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flyingeph12

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Originally Posted by willie--wonka

I've been looking at SFO-CDG flights for 2019 in March, May, June, late August---my usual flight dates, more or less. AA is showing only stuff like SFO-LAX upgrades as available now. Couldn't find a single international upgrade available at booking, except for a couple of CDG-PHL in Jan. Is anyone else having this problem? I would
like to book and be done now, especially since a couple of friends have offered me their expiring SWU's, as well.

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Originally Posted by enviroian

With few exceptions, redeeming C space at booking is no more. A lot has changed in 1 year.

Certainly securing an upgrade at booking has become much more difficult, but if you are super flexible, it is not impossible. For example, a quick search reveals that there is C space on both LAX-LHR flights on March 11

Edit: Oh my goodness, there's even C space on the return!

Last edited by flyingeph12; Dec 26, 2018 at 10:12 pm