Originally Posted by olimaspecto
These flights are notoriously hard to upgrade on, but it does happen. I just flew one last night LAX-JFK (upgraded on an eVIP) and both J and F were completely full. I fly SFO-JFK redeyes regularly too and the story is quite similar, but I have had more success midweek than on the peak days you are talking about. If you do a search you will hear loads about this, and the difficulty in upgrading. Upgrades, even for an EXP on this route are extremely tough.
Your sig says 44 of 46 upgrades as ExP this year though?
I normally do online checkin at 24 hours prior which brings me within the top 3-4 on the upgrade list (as Plat), I would assume there would be more than 2-3 ExP's on these flights so I gather the rest have been upgraded?
Or am I forgetting something?