<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by fly co to see the yanks:
does American upgrade elites for free on coach award tickets?</font>
American doesn't upgrade elites domestically for free at all.
However, American does allow international upgrades with miles from any published fare, and has significantly better standard level inventory availbility. So it depends on what type of traveling you do and how important domestic F is to you.
Steve