Enhancements in Main Cabin Extra Seating (now Q2 2018)
Apr 13, 2018, 9:12 am
#241
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Austin, TX - AUS
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I think the real reason for the delay is AA plans to make MCE a separate booking class that elites need to pay in advance (or be upgraded into at check in), like Delta, and therefore needs to update its systems. However, updating IT is taking longer than they expected.
Apr 13, 2018, 9:40 am
#243
Join Date: Apr 2009
Programs: American EXP; British Airways Gold
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If this was a negative instead of a positive for the passenger, we would be up in arms with pitchforks and torches to stop these "rogue" AA employees who are not following official rules.
Glad you received a free benefit, but I wouldn't count on it being consistent until there is some sort of announcement.
Glad you received a free benefit, but I wouldn't count on it being consistent until there is some sort of announcement.
Why would an "announcement" have any effect on the consistency of the benefit? There's no consistency with benefits in the forward cabin on this airline.
Apr 13, 2018, 10:21 am
#244
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Apr 13, 2018, 11:17 am
#245
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Austin
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I think the real reason for the delay is AA plans to make MCE a separate booking class that elites need to pay in advance (or be upgraded into at check in), like Delta, and therefore needs to update its systems. However, updating IT is taking longer than they expected.
Apr 14, 2018, 1:52 am
#246
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 2,317
flew recently on transcon to LAX but not from JFK
asked the FA when she did drinks in MCE if they were doing a comp alcoholic drink for those rows and she looked puzzled but asked me some questions.
wanted to know where i'd heard it, and insisted i must be talking about the free drink and snack for EXPs which she'd just given to the guy in front of me.
She asked me what kind of credit card, i showed her my citi exec adm club card and she shrugged and gave it to me "because i was nice" and "hey it doesn't come out of my paycheck"\
my answer to where i heard it was just "a travel blog" and left it at that.
pays to ask nicely though
asked the FA when she did drinks in MCE if they were doing a comp alcoholic drink for those rows and she looked puzzled but asked me some questions.
wanted to know where i'd heard it, and insisted i must be talking about the free drink and snack for EXPs which she'd just given to the guy in front of me.
She asked me what kind of credit card, i showed her my citi exec adm club card and she shrugged and gave it to me "because i was nice" and "hey it doesn't come out of my paycheck"\
my answer to where i heard it was just "a travel blog" and left it at that.
pays to ask nicely though
Apr 14, 2018, 11:45 am
#247
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Location: Kirkland, WA
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May 4, 2018, 7:01 am
#249
Join Date: May 2011
Location: DFW
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https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/29633260-post238.html
May 16, 2018, 7:52 pm
#250
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
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My travel schedule just filled up with a lot of trips to SEA and NYC from AUS. Would love to know if the "enhancements" will be in place by then. F (booking into I) are 2-3 and sometimes 4x Y. With all of the people offered "free" Platinum Pro, I'm guessing my upgrade chances on the long flights are pretty dismal. With the travel I have ready to book, I should have no problem hitting PPro, but I could also jump over to DL and perhaps do a challenge, since they do have the "enhancements" currently in their MCE cabin. I was really excited when this was announced, but the slow/non-existent roll out is kind of irritating, considering the vaguely said "Spring" and we are now almost 6 months into the year.
May 17, 2018, 6:38 am
#251
Join Date: May 2011
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May 18, 2018, 1:11 am
#252
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I think the real reason for the delay is AA plans to make MCE a separate booking class that elites need to pay in advance (or be upgraded into at check in), like Delta, and therefore needs to update its systems. However, updating IT is taking longer than they expected.
May 24, 2018, 3:36 pm
#253
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Empire State
Programs: AAdvantage Executive Platinum; Marriott Platinum
Posts: 461
UPDATE: Lucky reports that the enhancements will roll out on June 5, and that FAs are being asked to prevent "self-upgraders" from Main Cabin into MCE:
https://onemileatatime.boardingarea....963.1416854733
https://onemileatatime.boardingarea....963.1416854733
May 24, 2018, 4:42 pm
#255
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 230
The last half dozen flights i’ve Been on, have all had the branded up overhead bins. Only 1 has had it policed by a FA. She sent a guy packing with his guitar to row 12 when he tried to dump it in row 5.
Not had any of the other benefits on offer though.