Early Upgrade / Before Window Started?
Jan 8, 2016 | 7:56 pm
#16
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Madison WI
Programs: AA EXP, LT Plt, 2.9MM, Lifetime AC, HHonors Gold, Marriott Gold, IHG Plat Amb, Hertz Precs Crcl
Posts: 2,835
Early upgrades can happen any time upgrade inventory is available, so if RM releases inventory for any reason, apparently upgrading can occur.
My upgrade on AA 72 SYD-LAX 23 Dec 2015 cleared prior to the 100 hour window.
Our (2) upgrades for AA 164 SFO-JFK on 6 Jan and return AA 17 on 16 Jan cleared well before T-100.
AA 80 DFW-LHR 13 Apr, and AA 109 LHR-LAX 18 Jul have already cleared.
All J cabin to F cabin, all but AA 80 with SWU; AA 80 with BXP3.
My upgrade on AA 72 SYD-LAX 23 Dec 2015 cleared prior to the 100 hour window.
Our (2) upgrades for AA 164 SFO-JFK on 6 Jan and return AA 17 on 16 Jan cleared well before T-100.
AA 80 DFW-LHR 13 Apr, and AA 109 LHR-LAX 18 Jul have already cleared.
All J cabin to F cabin, all but AA 80 with SWU; AA 80 with BXP3.
Jan 8, 2016 | 8:27 pm
#17
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: CLT
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 866
You don't list your flight, but if a hub - even though you were the only ones on the flights departing the hub at booking, a connecting (in this case EXP) pax booking after you has the window for ALL their segments open at T-100 for their first flight, as stated above.
It's really not the end of the world, just trying to figure out if there is anything consistent about the process to rely on. Then again it is AA and you still can't count on a consistent PDB (on LAA flights anyway)...
Jan 9, 2016 | 8:42 am
#18
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Madison WI
Programs: AA EXP, LT Plt, 2.9MM, Lifetime AC, HHonors Gold, Marriott Gold, IHG Plat Amb, Hertz Precs Crcl
Posts: 2,835
It's a flight out of CLT, so that would explain connecting traffic, even though it's a 9am departure. However, my understanding is the system now only releases complimentary (non-SWU/mileage copay) upgrades once each leg's window opens, not at the window of the first flight on an itinerary with connections. Given the various experiences here, it seems it is one thing in theory and another in practice then.
It's really not the end of the world, just trying to figure out if there is anything consistent about the process to rely on. Then again it is AA and you still can't count on a consistent PDB (on LAA flights anyway)...
It's really not the end of the world, just trying to figure out if there is anything consistent about the process to rely on. Then again it is AA and you still can't count on a consistent PDB (on LAA flights anyway)...
