When do award seats open on JFK-SFO A321T?

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Mar 28, 2016, 2:27 pm

#16

ijgordon

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Originally Posted by djibouti

I'm actually not seeing much even 331 days out. No Z or U, with only 1 T seat occasionally. Looking at Feb 2017, both directions.

There's plenty of Z and U on Fridays and Saturdays in the fall/early winter.

There's nothing magic about 331 days on AA, not usually even a good place to start looking.

Mar 28, 2016, 3:10 pm

#17

mmjaysee

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Originally Posted by dkc192

I'd been monitoring the JFK-SFO flights for C space over the past few weeks, given that I just took one this past weekend and was hoping to upgrade. The trend appears to be to release (J-1) seats into *both* U and C buckets two days prior to departure (not T-48, but two calendar days before), i.e. if a flight is showing J5, RM will release four U and C seats.

Thanks for sharing this! Do you happen to know what time on 2 calendar days prior that this happens?

Mar 28, 2016, 3:19 pm

#18

UncleDude

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Originally Posted by hiima

I'm guessing OP is changing routing yo include jfk not the origin. But in I'm not OP.

As the A321T is a 3 Class Service, First Class has always been treated as Premium First [Purple on the website], so a change from Standard First [Dark Blue on the site] ex PHL to Premium First via JFK would trigger the new Higher points requirement.

For some reason AA seems to follow the Cathay System on the A321T and only open up Premium Seat Awards 3 Days prior to date of travel. However I did manage one seat in Premium First many months ahead but that was on the last flight of the night from JFK to LAX.

As always YMMV