Originally Posted by
chicago747
Apologies if this was covered upstream somewhere, but can someone tell me where BXP1'a would be in the upgrade hierarchy at the gate? I currently have zero status and < $1k in rolling EQD. It's a SFO-ORD late afternoon flight so I figure if it goes to the gate F will probably be sold out anyways. Just want know if I have little chance or no chance. Thanks!
BXP1 requires C inventory, and you'd be ranked according to your status and rolling EQDs over the past 12 months among anyone else wait-listed for C.
That will be an entirely separate ranking from anyone waiting on an elite/500-cert upgrade, which comes out of a separate inventory (R, I think). It's quite possible AA never opens up C, and everyone on the elite upgrade clears and you fly in the back (which has been my experience). *If* C opens up, you'll clear if there are no elites ahead of you.