Good to know!

Hopefully this means that earning on US with 003 ticket stock is not far off as well.

I'm trying to check upgrade inventory using a BXP3 award. Can someone please let me know what inventory a BXP3 award books into on a 3-class flight to Asia (upgrade from coach to business). Does the award book into C like a SWU or should I be checking for some other availability?

Thanks,

Yes you are looking for the same inventory buckets as SWU and Miles+Co-pay

Thanks

I wish they would allow flight changes on BE awards, without a fee if the origination and destination remain the same

I agree, especially for EXP. I have 2 very pain in the ... routings coming back from China (PEK-ORD-PIA-DFW) while I'm waiting for the ORD-DFW nonstop to open. Sadly I will have to drop $300 to change that routing when it does.

I understand on an international itinerary I cant do same day standby, but am I able to do a CFC?

Good use of business extra anytime award?
 

I have a BX1D anytime award that needs to be booked within the next month. Since the award is an anytime award and not a mileage saver, I am looking for AA desitnations that are typically hard to redeem miles to. Can anyone offer suggestions as to destinations within US, Canada, and Mexico that typically DONT have low level mileage award seats?

Curious. Why does it have to be used next month. Reward points expire on Dec 31 in the third year. So, after you redeem an award, you then have a year to book the ticket, and a year to use the ticket once booked.
In any case, why don't you pick a place you want to go to? If the ticket has to be booked by next month, you still have a lot of leeway in when to use it and where. That leaves quite a few possibilities. What is the point about knowing what destinations are not available low mileage if you don't want to go there. Pick a spot and go there.

+1,000

It's often not a difference in destination or availability, it's often a difference in routing and/or a difference in availability on specific dates! So it's a near impossible question to answer in general.

Can BusinessExtrAA upgrade awards be used on USAirways? The wording on the site is ambitious on this.

Can anyone sign up for the business extra program? Even sole proprietorships? I didn't even know about this, seems like there's no reason to not double dip if you're buying AA fares all the time?

I believe the business has to have at least two employees.

Go to the Business Extra website and read their T&Cs carefully so you know what they expect.

I'm a little unclear on how the upgrade certificates work. Am I right that I have to 'purchase' one for a specific flight at a specific time? In other words, let's say I have 3100 points, and I want to upgrade JFK-LAX, so I redeem 650 points for the certificate. So now I have 2450 points. Then assume the upgrade doesn't clear. Now, I am left with 2450 points and a BXP1 certificate?

In other words, I can't 'refund' the certificate, then use the 3100 miles on a BXP2 upgrade JFK-LHR, right?

By comparison, if I wanted to upgrade JFK-LAX using stickers, I would need 5 stickers, I could request an upgrade, but if the upgrade doesn't clear, the stickers are unused, and I can use a few more stickers to upgrade JFK-ZRH or whatever. I think the BE upgrade system is less flexible but it wasn't totally clear to me.

I've only earned points, not redeemed any yet, but trying to learn the ins and outs before I do - thanks in advance for any tips.