just to let everyone know how my trip went...

I was flying from bos-ewr-nrt-gum in late July. I was thinking that I wouldn't be upgraded at all since most segments were international. I couldn't get the 500 bonus miles for online check in since I had to do it at the counter. I did get the upgrade to ewr. The rest of the segments were in coach. I got to nrt and right before boarding, the gate agent called me to the podium and told me that my upgrade had come through. So I got the one domestic upgrade (bos-ewr) even though bos-nrt was supposedly one flight number, which it was not. I also got one international upgrade (nrt-gum) which was not in a BusinessFirst cabin. It was still nice to get upgraded.