Originally Posted by
Joeinfl
I am EXP and have requested the use of my 4 SWU from MIA to MXP - the flight is on June 9th and am looking to upgrade my family and I (4 in total) from MIA to MXP - I'm on the waitlist, and I can see that no seats have been sold in business class yet. Any ideas on when (and if) my SWU will clear?
Probably won't clear until starting around a week before the flight, with a most likely scenario of around 24-48 hrs before. Every now and then AA seems to release bunches of random SWU space in advance, so you could get lucky, but its completely unpredictable.
As a data point, last year I had a MIA-MXP roundtrip in late April. For both the outbound and return the business cabin was wide open (no more than 50% full on both) yet AA didn't release any upgrade space till about 24-36 hrs before for both. This is standard operating procedure for a majority of AA long haul flights.