Originally Posted by
mbmiles88
Nope, it didn't involve stickers at all. In fact on my last flight from TPA-ORD-EWR, when I traveled with my mother and my sister, the machine offered all three of us upgrades on the TPA-ORD route with "breakfast served" and the ORD-EWR route with "lunch served" for $90 each. I bought them for all three of us, of course without telling them the price. They would have gone hysterical if they found out I spent $90 on each of them just to fly in first. The original tickets were booked in Q class.
Your profile says you are an AA Platinum. If so, you are actually losing money by buying the upgrades. You can get upgraded easily (if they are offering upgrades to non-elite members) with just buying 2 stickers for ORD-EWR = $60 ($30 each). So you paid an extra $30.
$90 is very cheap for a non-elite to upgrade, and I have done that a couple times myself before I became an elite.