This week's flights - probably the last for the calendar year. My counts reset on Jan 1...

DEN-CLT, 738, Sunday, ~1030am: Did not clear (2 out of 32 at depature)
CLT-DCA, 738, Sunday, ~530pm: Cleared at ~12 hours
DCA-CLT, 738, Tuesday, ~1030am: Cleared at ~24 hours
CLT-DEN, A321, Tuesday, ~130pm: Cleared at 100 hours

Somewhere around 270K LP probably.

Last Sunday AM MIA/DFW 788 flight. Number 10 on the list (around 250K LP 12 month rolling). One person cleared at the gate not sure onboard. Yesterday Tuesday IAH/MIA E175 flight purchased an upgrade for $129. Numerous Group one passengers headed back to Y. One person upgraded onboard. EXPs not clearing Sunday AM and Saturday PM as well as E175/CRJ900 flights has now become a more much happening thing.

They're really hanging on trying to sell those upgrades.

Not EXP, I'm PP, but my BNA-DCA this weekend has 6 open F seats and 7 MCE occupied including me +1, we're T-40 right now and no one has cleared yet. But they continue to hawk $97 upgrades in the app.

PPro with 110k LPs this cycle



12/13 AA2118 LAX-AUS: Upgraded at T-26 despite there being 10 seats open since the PPro window. Ended up SDFC’ing to AA539. 17 on list, no one cleared.

12/14 AA3666 AUS-MSY: Upgraded at T-71 with a companion, 2 people on the list for zero seats.

12/14 AA1299 AUS-DFW: Switched to this due to IRROPS. 5 and 6 out of 18 for 0 seats.

12/14 AA3765 DFW-BTR: Upgraded at the gate. We were 1 and 2 on the list out of 5 for 4 seats. One no show, so all ended up clearing

12/15 AA5131 BTR-CLT: Upgraded at T-70. 2 on the list with 1 clearing.

12/15 AA1855 CLT-DCA: 10/29 on the list for 2 seats

Cleared at T-27.

Interestingly all the A seats on the E175 were open when the upgrade came through. That east coast storm seemed to have spooked the crew though, 1 drink up front and I believe economy only got water. They should probably refund people who buy MCE when that happens tbh. We didn't hit any bumps until approach to DCA fwiw.

While the free drinks are nice, the extra space I get is by far the most important benefit of MCE.

Recent trip as Gold:

12/7 TLH -> CLT: Not upgraded, but perhaps should have been since there was an open J seat and I was #1 on the list. Had an entire Main Cabin Extra exit row to myself, so I'm not complaining.
12/7 CLT -> GRR: Not upgraded and not close. But got another "whole exit row just for me".
12/15 GRR -> CLT: Not upgraded and not close. But got another "whole exit row just for me".
12/15 CLT -> TLH: Cleared at T-24! Was even able to choose 1A on the regional jet - my favorite seat on the plane.

So I went 1 for 4, maybe could have been 2 for 4 if I had been pushy on that very early outgoing flight. Platinum now (amazing how fast that happened - aa.com hotels miles & LP for this trip posted today and pushed me over 75K LP).

EXP around $250K LP. MIA/CLT last Saturday, 772. Number six on list, five cleared. But I had a PE seat. CLT/PHX paid upgrade, long list maybe one cleared. Yesterday, PHX/LAS cleared at T-100. LAS/MIA number 2 on a long list. Cleared as I scanned my BP and was told I had an upgrade. Excellent service on those 3 flights in F.

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EXP here (w/ 275k LPs)

Flying, me and a companion, on the above flight and I see 5 seats left on the seat map in J (I don't have EF or KVS anymore) at T-68.

What would, in your opinion, be of us being upgraded prior to being at the airport? There were 7 seats avail earlier this AM that look to be gone.

Not sure what the algorithm does on a holiday Sunday nor am I seeing actual inventory which may be lower that the seats showing avail.

If you don't get upgraded by T-27, then you will most likely have to wait until the gate.

Thanks. Love having a time to focus on. I was hopeful that at T-72 there would be some action but no.

Datapoint: Cleared DFW-DEN on Dec 27 at T100. HOU-DFW is J6, but did not clear yet.