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Feb 18, 2009, 7:20 am

#76

georgeZig

Join Date: Feb 2009

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My Systemwide Upgrades is expiring, <redacted>

I have about 10 systemwide upgrades that are expiring on Feb 28, 2009. I don't know what to do. I need 7 to 8 upgrades this summer between June and july (Tickets already booked) but by that time I will have none left. <redacted>

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Feb 21, 2009, 3:36 am

#77

Fly2LAX

Join Date: Sep 2006

Location: Worldwide - Cruising altitude

Programs: Delta Platinum AA Platinum UA Dirt Grey Marriott Ambassador Hyatt Globalist

Posts: 415

Hey all !

Question, today we tried to apply a 09 eVIP to my flight on March 3rd and the agent suddenly said this is not permitted anymore.

That sounds rather weird to me as my brother applied his 4 remaining VIP's to my parents travel in April and that was no problem at all (this was 3 weeks ago).

I'm a bit confused why all of a sudden there is a change in policy !

Any truth to this story ?

Thanks,

Feb 21, 2009, 4:39 am

#78

britenbsas

Join Date: Nov 2007

Location: London UK

Programs: BAEC Silver, IHG Diamond Ambassador

Posts: 2,042

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fly2LAX

Any truth to this story ?

Thanks,

The official policy (as it has always been) is that all travel must be completed by the eVIP expiry date. In the last couple of years, exceptions were made to this rule. This year, it appears that it is being enforced more strictly although there have still been reports of people attaching expiring eVIPs to future travel.

Much discussion about this in the following thread (post #51 onwards):

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...solidated.html

Feb 21, 2009, 9:55 am

#79

brp

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Join Date: Mar 2004

Location: SJC

Programs: AA EXP, BA Silver, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton diamond, Marriott Platinum

Posts: 33,533

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fly2LAX

Hey all !

Question, today we tried to apply a 09 eVIP to my flight on March 3rd and the agent suddenly said this is not permitted anymore.As

I'm a bit confused why all of a sudden there is a change in policy !

Any truth to this story ?

Thanks,

As noted, there is nothing at all sudden about this. In addition to being AA longstanding policy (despite recent exceptions) it has been discussed here quite a bit.

And, even if one were not to read about it here, the rules for use of the eVIPs (or SWUs, as they're now called) are on AA.com

http://www.aa.com/aa/pubcontent/en_U...title=vpupdate

notable portion:

All travel using a systemwide upgrade must be completed by the expiration date. Upgrades will expire at 12:00 midnight (CT) on the date shown.

Cheers.

Feb 22, 2009, 8:46 pm

#80

Allusha

Join Date: Oct 2002

Posts: 121

I would think it's in AA's favor to allow people to use their 08 VIPs past 3/1/09. I have a couple unused and would be perfectly willing to book a trip just to burn them which provides extra revenue to AA. The cost would be minimal given they control the capacity.