High long time lurker and first time poster. I really enjoy reading the wealth of information that is in this board. But to my question.

With the summer upgrade promo I thought that the only conditions on upgrades were it must be tango plus and within North America. So i went and booked a flight.

I Booked a flight for july 26 into tango plus, booking class s.
july 26ac224-yvr-yyc
july 27 ac1178-yyz-yyz
july 27 ac916 - yyz-mia

august 14
ac917 -mia-yyz
ac017- yyz-yver

I checked the level of people in first and these flights seemed the emptiest. However after booking, I realized I should have plugged in the "only show upgradable fares" box. When I went back to look at the arrow that points up, next to upgradable fares, it was not only any of the flights I had booked. Now is this because these flights can not be upgraded or have people already filled all R inventory. Now what would be the best way of going about booking a flight from yvr-mia with the highest probability of being upgraded. I have 24 hours to change my flight free of charge(I believe). Thanks for any help in advance. This forum has really helped me in my first year as an E and possibly SE.

The Upgradable Fares is for the non-promo upgrades I think.

My understanding was that the promo applies to S fares, but it would be only in your upgrade window. I think E is 4 days before the flight.

Yes ignore the upgradeable fares for NAmerican flights and as long as you book a T+ fare you'll be fine for the summer promo. I never use this setting when booking and instead just look at the J seat map and one of the sites that will show me R inventory, though when booking too far out none of these tools are much good when using the 7, 4 or 2 day window where intuition is the only real "tool" one can use.

I CAN (thank you KVS guru) track R space for NA flights on KVS for you:

224 is currently R=9
1178 is currently R=9
916 is currently R=6

917 is currently R=7
017 is currently R=9

So right now, things look good for you on all of your segments.
Best of luck with the upgrades, and enjoy MIA

You sure can:

[KVS Availability Tool 5.5.0/Diamond - Galileo: Availability/ETR/JP]

hey thanks for all the help guys I guess I will stick to these flights and hopefully some of the u/g's work out.

Good luck, looks good for your first flight anyways

Just wanted to add my two cents here and say that the KVS tool has been invaluable in letting me look up 'R' availability like this. With the summer upgrade promo, the KVS membership has easily paid for itself.

Thanks, KVS! ^

-RS.

Whoopsie, sometimes I'm a total idiot.

You'd think that for the number of times I use this thing on a weekly bases, I'd known more about its domestic capabilities......alas, I once again publicly demonstrate my stupidity.....