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Jan 9, 2005 | 9:38 am

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christep

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I'm not sure that was the question the OP was asking...

If you mean for money then the starfiles say:

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 43N UPGRADE                                                    
 44N --------                                                   
 45N .                                                          
 46N UPGRADE AT ANY TIME:                                       
 47N .                                                          
 48N .  * ANY ECONOMY ONEWORLD EXPLORER FARE MAY BE             
 49N .    UPGRADED TO FIRST/BUSINESS CLASS ONEWORLD             
 50N .    EXPLORER FARES WITHOUT PENALTY.                       
 51N .  * BUSINESS CLASS ONEWORLD EXPLORER FARES MAY BE         
 52N .    UPGRADED TO A FIRST CLASS ONEWORLD EXPLORER FARE      
 53N .    WITHOUT PENALTY.                                      
 54N .  * AADVANTAGE UPGRADE AWARDS PERMITTED ON AA            
 55N .    SECTORS USING AA AWARDS ONLY. /UPGRADES ON OA       
 56N .    PARTNER SECTORS NOT ALLOWED./                         
 57N .  * STICKER UPGRADES ALLOWED ON U.S. DOMESTIC AND U.      
 58N .    S./CA TRANSBORDER SEGMENTS ONLY.                      
 59N .  * AN UPGRADE TO A FULL MILEAGE RTW FARE IS              
 60N .    PERMITTED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT PENALTY.  REISSUED      
 61N .    TICKETS MUST SHOW IN THE ENDORSEMENT BOX:             
 62N .                                                          
 63N . NON-REF/XXX                                              
 64N . /THE XXX INDICATES THE ONEWORLD EXPLORER FARE            
 65N . BASIS CODE./                                             
 66N .                                                          
 67N .  * THE ORIGINAL NON-REFUNDABLE AMOUNT REMAINS NON-       
 68N .    REFUNDABLE. IF THE UPGRADED TICKET IS                 
 69N .    SUBSEQUENTLY CANCELLED, THE ORIGINAL PENALTY WILL     
 70N .    APPLY.                                                
 71N .  * AN ONEWORLD EXPLORER FARE MAY BE USED AS CREDIT       
 72N .    TOWARDS THE PAYMENT OF ANY HIGHER FARE TYPE FROM      
 73N .    THE POINT OF ORIGIN PROVIDED THE RULES OF THE        
 74N .    HIGHER FARE TYPE HAVE BEEN MET. REISSUED TICKETS    
 75N .    MUST SHOW IN THE ENDORSEMENT BOX:                     
 76N .                                                          
 77N . NON-REF/XXX                                              
 78N . /THE XXX INDICATES THE ONEWORLD EXPLORER FARE            
 79N . BASIS CODE./                                             
 80N .                                                          
 81N .  * THE ORIGINAL NON-REFUNDABLE AMOUNT REMAINS NON-       
 82N .    REFUNDABLE. IF THE UPGRADED TICKET IS                 
 83N .    SUBSEQUENTLY CANCELLED, THE ORIGINAL PENALTY WILL     
 84N .    APPLY.

So upgrade is clearly no problem - although to make sense you would probably want to do it before starting the journey.

Downgrades (except of the type that JohnAx mentions due to lack of First on a route) are more problematic. I suspect that would be a cancel and reissue if it was before your first flight, and it muight be tricky to do after the first flight.

I don't understand why you would want to do this though? Chronic indecision?

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