That flight is currently showing J7 C0 with 17 open seats in business class. It's still a ways out but I'd probably guess your upgrade will clear as business travel on a Friday night into a holiday week is very light.

Thanks Finsup! shall keep my fingers crossed.

So flew this flight now (posting this from the QF lounge at LHR)

Originally booked OMA-ORD-LHR-LUX on Nov 25 with the SWU cleared months in advance.

Afternoon of departure cancelled due to snow in ORD. Nothing available that day.

Auto-rebooked on the same flights through ORD the next day Nov 26 - upgrades maintained.

Called in and moved myself to OMA-DFW-LHR-LUX on Nov 26 via AA78 - upgrades maintained. (And C space was showing for AA78 at ~30 hours before departure.

Good thing I moved - the OMA-ORD flights were cancelled on Nov 26 as well.

Still have not missed a Y-->J SWU or BXP3 longhaul request during my several years as EXP.

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:D

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Outside of winter travel, I would much prefer through ORD as you would get a usually decent hot meal on the ORD-DCA leg and I imagine it would be the quickest door-to-door!

Wow, that's rough, especially for a Tuesday. DFW-BOS is another one that can be incredibly hard to upgrade at the wrong times. I was 23 out of 40-something as a 15k EQD EXP on the evening of Presidents' Day this year. Similar to you, I also saw a 40-something list on a Wednesday in mid-October, but thankfully I was in paid F that time.

That said, I've also cleared a couple of Friday noontime BOS-DFW flights at the gate, so, YMMV greatly it seems. :confused:

One 2019-01-31 expiring SWU left; waitlisted on MSY-DFW-LIM on 2019-01-24. Right now J7 R6 D2 I0 with exactly 7 open on the seat map (plus two blocked) on the 757. We shall see...the return is LATAM where I can't use them (or upgrade any other way at all) so if this one misses I suppose I'll be giving it away.

I think this was residual Turkey Day return traffic that surged 2 more days after the supposed big Sunday travel day. This time of year isn’t exactly heavy business in and out of DC. Probable that a number of non-biz travelers “bought-up” to enjoy the ride. Still, out of 16, that would account for perhaps half?

Wasn’t aware of a DFW effect from the WX in the Midwest, including diverts, but when I went thru there on Saturday night from FRA the place was totally packed. Possibly some folks were heading to the east coast, were affected, rerouted and had priority. DCA isn’t the best for heading further north, but when I got in tonight @1915, DCA was also really packed. :eek: At least Metro was up and running...

Upcoming trip PHL - LAX - Friday, February 1st on the A332 (flight 698 leaves pHL at 3:35). I put in for a Miles/Copay upgrade for a family of 3 - I presently don't have any status. Right now first is showing as 4 seats out of 20 booked. Any snowball chance in hell we can all clear?

Can someone tell me if this is normal?

I have two passengers on one PNR. NRT-DFW-MIA. I requested to use two SWUs to upgrade only NRT-DFW for both passengers because the DFW-MIA is already booked full in first. When checking the res online, I get a "standby" menu. It shows my original flights in economy with the same seats as originally booked. But when I click the "standby flight" it lists NRT-DFW in economy (with originally booked seats) and right below it has the same NRT-DFW flight but with business listed and the seats listed are the two economy seats we have DFW-MIA. Seems pretty weird...

I have a trip to LHR waitlisted for SWUs in a few weeks which is showing the exact same thing when I pull up the reservation online. I even called AA because it looked so strange, they assured me the SWU requests were set up correctly and nothing was out of the ordinary, etc.

I have seen this when waitlisting a BXP1 (Business Extra Award) and for a connecting flight when one leg was confirmed in first, but other one was waitlisted. I wouldn't worry.

AA364 (DFW-SJC) yesterday, was 10 of 31 as EXP with ~$17K rolling EQDs.
#1 on the list was a CK (GA read out the names of the 3 CKs).
No one cleared.