Originally Posted by
bse118
Clearing 4 SWUs on any one flight, regardless of aircraft, is a tall order. Unless there, by some miracle, happens to be confirmable space at booking I'd just book the flight you think offers the best price/schedule right now. And then monitor the paid upgrade prices for a while. AA is so rarely making upgrade space available in advance these days. Also: with 10 months between now and the flight it's highly likely that schedules (and even aircraft) will change, so don't overthink this.
If you book something now, if they don’t have confirmable upgrades at booking, then I would not immediately waitlist the SWU’s. In order to see the In-App upgrade offers, the PNR cannot have waitlisted upgrades. Since you’re 10 months out, I’d wait on waitlisting and monitor the upgrade offers for a while. I have a LAX LHR itinerary in a month and the offers have been all over the board - $700-$4500 and they change on a more than daily basis.