3 FC seats were available LTO>PHX on Wednesday for a Thursday flight. 2 seats went to a passenger and her husband who were Platinum by way of meeting the Southwest Airline status challenge(yes, I personally know these passengers). The upgrades came prior to AA publishing the upgrade list for the flight. We are Platinum-Pro and were 2,3 on the list when the seat inventory was listed at 0. It was a short flight so no big deal but I am wondering if AA is giving these challenge passengers a taste of upgrades as an incentive to keep booking AA flights.
As in they were ordered higher on the list? I’m assuming that they were upgraded prior to the list being published right?
Perhaps it was a situation where they were on separate PNRs whereas you had two passengers on a single PNR. If that was the case, then you would get skipped over to the extent only one seat is released at a time.