I believe he said his flight was full all the way up to the door closing, so the complimentary auto upgrades at 40 minutes wouldn't apply. The J seat(s) being open were likely someone missing their connection or flight change. This same thing happened to my wife on Monday at PHL, but the GA came on board and she got the battlefield upgrade.

DEN-LAX, E75, Saturday, 7am - cleared at 100 hours.

Flight went out with 5 seats open in F.

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Hi. Apologies if it has been answered before but want to make sure it’s still a thing same as it was pre covid.
I paid cash for Y LHR ORD AA 90 9am - 10:40pm on Nov 9. It had upgradable space so I called and got instantly confirmed to J using miles + copay.

Historically this flight never operates in November AFAIR and I expect next batch of schedule change to not have this flight bookable. Will I be moved to J on another AA flight on that same day or will they kick me to the back of bus and put back on the waitlist? Given that AA86 is C0 right now and prob gonna stay C0 until close to departure due to it being only ORD LHR flight off season. I’m EP if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance.

gateH15, If AA moves you to a different flight, they'll keep you in business since you've already confirmed the upgrade. This happened to me going to Santiago where I was on a confirmed SWU nonstop from DFW-SCL. AA changed the frequency of that flight and then forced me to do DFW-MIA-SCL. The upgrade carried through. My buddy flying with me was on a mileage upgrade and they carried through his upgrade as well.

thanka for the quickly reply. Definitely happened to me precovid long before departure, but since covid only happens a few times on a day of departure and I was even moved to BA with upgrade carried over. I think if it’s a schedule change in advance you have to stay on AA metal in order for upgrade to carry over?

RIC-CLT-ORD Sat 3:30pm & 6:15pm, both flights cleared at 101 hours (10:30am email) for hubby and me.

Learned that vodka with the cranberry apple juice and a squeeze of lime is quite tasty!

Cleared today Sunday July 2 at 4:30 pm IAH-DFW 4 hours out. I’m Gold for another day. Today is a quiet day of a holiday weekend. Really the only time you can clear an upgrade as gold is on an off day of a major holiday , a 5am departure , or a flight to an outstation landing past midnight. The admirals club is a ghost town.

I purchased four tickets from DFW to ICN in Premium Economy. I am Platinum Pro. Anyone know if AA will upgrade me to J if available?

Unless you use a SWU or miles+ copay, unlikely barring an operational reason.

if PE is oversold and you're the highest tier AA elites, then it's possible. But I would not count on it.

I tried doing miles and copay but no C inventory available. But plenty of seats in J. Do they do waitlist for miles and copay?

Pretty sure yes you just call in and tell them you want miles + copay and they take your info & credit card as well and if/when it becomes avail they will do it automatically and notify.

Anyone have experience with clearing this kind of upgrade?

So ... they didn't look into it at all. Not surprising but still sucks.