Yes, the Excel spreadsheet where you manually track this yourself.

Thank you for your reply. As a non-status AA member I didn't have much history with using miles/co pay for upgrades. I have flown several business/first international trips using my own miles to book awards on partners over the years, but this was new to me trying to upgrade a domestic AA flight. I was able to get a free 5 day expert flyer trial and was able to look over all the options for C availability. After several days I finally found a confirmable route from ALB-ORD-LAX that worked for me (I now realize how tough confirmable space is to find from CLT/DFW/ORD direct to places like LAX). I booked the economy ticket with my corporate card and then called AA to confirm the upgrade for 15,000 miles + $75 on my personal card. I opted for the call back since it was a 1h48m estimated hold time haha. Customer Service was top quality, although I did have to wait almost 20 minutes for them to actually confirm everything and for me to be able to see it on my screen, after payment went through. I wasn't hanging up until I had email confirmation. Anyway, all is confirmed and seats are selected, and for that price to fly almost 8 hours I'll take it any day.

This was booked and upgrade confirmed for a flight that is 9 days out, fyi.

~ 500k EP traveling with companion

Saturday Morning PHL-DFW on the 787: #5 & #6 on a 60-person deep upgrade list, no clears
Sunday Night DFW-MKE: #3 & #4, four cleared at gate - three seats open and one no-show
Wednesday Evening MKE-PHL: #1 & #2, cleared about 10 hours out and one cleared at the gate

5/17 AA1257 PHL-ATL - 2 out of 26 on list cleared at the gate on a 319.

I was able to clear on JFK-LHR on AA 100 on May 4th a few days out (3-4 days) with SWU. I do not recall seeing anyone clearing at the gate but it was pretty easy to clear a few days out with C space visible in expertflyer

BOS/MIA #6 out of 48, 2 cleared on way down - cleared at t-10 on way home

367k LPs in 2023

Recent flights from the past two weeks:

• BOS-PHL (738) cleared at the window on a Monday evening.
• PHL-BOS (319) cleared at the window.
• BNA-PHL (319) paid the fare difference (way less than the app upgrade) as it was J1 a week out and Y seats were not good. Thursday evening.
• PHL-BOS (321) also up-fared. The flight went out with a lengthy list, but one open seat (things were getting hectic with IROPS).
• BOS-DFW (321) cleared at the window for the 2nd to last flight out on Monday evening. J was wide open until the platinum window.
• DFW-BOS (321) also cleared at the window.

All flights had 20-25 (30+ for Dallas) on the list with maybe 1 clearing. The app upgrades also made no sense for any of these flights, which could partially be why the cabins were wide open.

Legacy shuttle flights are looking good for next week :tu:

May 23 - AA1257 ATL-PHL - was #6 out of 28. (~225 rolling LPs. #1 has 600k+ rolling LPs.) No one cleared.

LAX-JFK on 5/27: was #4 on the upgrade to J with 1 seat available (EXP, ~250k LP).

Meanwhile, 5 seats in F were available and noticed at least 2 AA employees in plain clothes in those seats (cleared from stand-by to F). But that's another topic.

I believe the policy is those seats are not upgraded able, so how is that another topic?

You can upgrade using a SWU or miles - AA just doesn’t offer it for free.

- DFW to CLT (5/22) - cleared at 100 hour mark
- CLT to SXM (5/22) - No. 1 on list - no one cleared (was a 319 with 8 FC seats - yuck) - my wife and I were sitting in different rows in coach and after takeoff (completely unprompted), a senior FA made someone else move a row back (out of a bulkhead row) so we could sit together (I apologized to the guy, but I don't think he accepted it)
- SXM to MIA (5/26) - No.1 on list - no one cleared
- MIA to DFW (5/26) - No.1 on list - FC showed full, but right before door closed, they came offer me one seat (I declined as my wife and I did not want to split up - yes, of course I offered it to her, but if I won't take it, she won't either)

Were 35-40 people on the upgrade list in each instance.

CK - unknown what my 12 month rolling LPs are

Correct, I should have mentioned that.

Upgrades for Non-EXP/PP
 

Given all the (imo) mediocre data points for EXPs lately, some with very high LPs, are Gold or Platinum elites upgrading at all anymore? It would be interesting to see someone speak to what the 2023 year as a Platinum was like.

It happens but rarely, being a lifetime PLT I'm happy with my MCE seat at booking