thunderdeacon

I can concur that the below $205 upgrade offers are back.

My SAN-DFW flight for Friday 6/23 offer went from $205 down to $146. I didn't buy it on 205, but needless to say I just purchased the upgrade for $146.

There are still some head scratchers. I have a flight in early August from DCA to MSY. I paid $167 total for main cabin. The upgrade offer on the app was at 409, and it went down to 333 today. Out of curiosity, I looked to see what the fair for paid first class would be. It was $273. So it was only $105 more to just rebook the flight as paid F. Needless to say, I did not take the upgrade offer on the app. I just rebooked the ticket in paid F for only a $105 additional fare collection.

Rebob

That allows for points as well. I don't think you get LP when you take the upgrade offer on the app (unless that has changed).

bse118

Well, booked on another HND-DFW, and this time the pricing is more along the lines of expected (or worse):

Y-->W: $1998
Y-->J: $4075

That's a nope.

econometrics

Here's a fun example from a recent experience...

I booked a DFW-LHR R/T for mid-June about 2 months out. Prices to fly it nonstop in J were around $7600... which is the higher end of my corporate allowable booking range. I bought DFW-LHR in J and LHR-DFW in PE, so it was around $5800.

Immediately in the app, the offer to upgrade from PE to J for LHR-DFW was $1800. Made sense, since the RT was $7600.

After watching the upgrade offers in the app for a few weeks, the price to do LHR-DFW in J went down to $900. So I bit and bought it.

Had to change my plans this morning to depart 2 days earlier, so I changed my originally-booked J ticket. It was a $900 fare difference to change. Did it.

Went into the app and was looking at the price to change my return and noticed I could get a $1500 credit for keeping my LHR-DFW biz ticket booking. Weird. So I did it.

Because the original in-app upgrade put me in a "J" fare code, I was able to get a credit for $1500 because I re-booked immediately in the app into "I".

So what should have been a total of $7600 in ticket costs after my changes, upgrade, etc. was only $6100 in total ticket costs. 😁

NickP 1K

[QUOTE=econometrics;35298875[I booked a DFW-LHR R/T for mid-June about 2 months out. Prices to fly it nonstop in J were around $7600... which is the higher end of my corporate allowable booking range. I bought DFW-LHR in J and LHR-DFW in PE, so it was around $5800.[/QUOTE]

As a side note - I do NOT book PE anymore and wait to see the Main Cabin to Business price if I'm not actually paying for Biz at ticketing (if I'm under 5K return Business at ticketing is acceptable, any more and it's not). If I can get PE close to Main cabin (for me from LAX-LHR it's pretty close when NOT peak summer). I find the Main Cabin to Biz upsell in the app when NOT peak summer is $1000-1500 which in general return still has me under the $5K RT as my Main Cabin ticket is rarely ever more than 2K return. Moral here: Don't book PE at a huge markup unless you truly think Biz offers won't show up due to limited open Biz seats.

OWF_NYC_SIN

Hi everyone!
I recently booked a SGN - DOH - JFK itinerary in business class on AA stock for around $2,000 USD; with SGN - DOH sector operated by QR and DOH - JFK operated by AA. Although I could also cancel within 24 hours and choose to have the DOH - JFK flight changed to QR operated, I received the offer to upgrade from DOH - JFK to F for $1,200.
My mind is thinking, I would definitely have a better experience on the second segment in QR J but want to try long-haul AA F for the novelty. How reasonable is the $1,200 upgrade cost, in your opinions? Otherwise, I will choose a QR operated flight for the DOH - JFK sector. Thanks!

WeekendTraveler

I just got another email offering to sell me an upgrade. But, AA, you had already upgraded me (through a free upgrade).At least the typical $205 upgrade (more than the original ticket price) now seems to be below $100.

USFlyerUS

Definitely not worth $1,200. Maybe $250 to go from J to F but not $1,200. It's a slightly better seat + the same meal as J but with a bowl of soup. The AA J seats are a solid hard product IMHO, so to me that's like paying $1,200 for a bowl of soup.

James91

Got offered $135 on CLT-SJU for Y to J. Took it as that's a long flight in Y for me.

msr0013

I'm being offered a reasonably priced upgrade on an upcoming flight, that I'd normally strongly consider. However, when I begin the process to purchase the upgrade, the F seat map (A319) shows as completely full. Does AA normally oversell F via in app upgrades, or is this more likely a blocked seat? FWIW, the same flight also still shows one seat for sell in F. My concern is F being overbooked and losing my original MCE seat if I purchase the upgrade. Any previous similar data points would be much appreciated!

PHL

PHL-MCO for me on a trip next week is coming up at $140 now. It was $480 when booked a few months back. Interestingly the upgradeable inventory for points/SWUs is coming up at C7.

HofstraJet

Are there limits on number of passengers/ages for offers?

Booked my niece and husband plus their 3 year old and lap infant CLT-PBI. No offer yet., Flight is J7 and is next week. None of them have status.

River in Sight

I agree the lower priced offers have come back. Booked LAX-CLT-CLE (was able to clear LAX-CLT with a BXP1 at booking, shockingly) and got offered CLT-CLE for $65, which was the cheapest I've seen in quite a while outside of DCA-LGA.

I would've gone for except my son (who is on a separate record having applied a BXP1 to him as well) isn't getting the offer.

DCAKen

This good deal got even better. At the gate, the scanner squawked and I got upgraded to first.

Kacee

Yep. I was offered $97 for PHX-SFO and SFO-PHX this week.

The offer only appeared right after booking, and never reappeared. These are booked under my AS number.