A bit of an odd situation, but I was wondering if anyone's had similar experiences or ideas. I decided I preferred to credit to another OW airline rather than use my status benefits since I was going to pay for an instant upgrade. Plus I'm only Gold, almost certainly not enough to get a complimentary upgrade on this flight. Since I hadn't assigned seats or otherwise used any of my AA status, a chat CSR was able to remove my AA #. However, the instant upgrade disappeared. I figured it might reappear after a day or so, but still nothing. First chat CSR was thoroughly useless...

I'm pretty sure there's still space, the offer disappeared immediately after my AA number was removed. It's two days before the flight, and there's still pretty much every J cabin booking class available down to I, but no upgrade offers. Anyone know any magic words that would fix this, or am I SOL and should just add back my AA number?