Whats the timeframe for a BXP1 upgrade to process when waitlisted for a segment that has C inventory opened up? I received a notification from EF that C is available on my segment, but looking at my reservation, it still states waitlist.

Well, my answer is never. Had to call in after 36 hours of 'C' opening up and was able to process the UG already tied to the segment.

Yep, that's pretty much it. I don't even both waitlisting anymore. Just set an EF alert, call in and presto... you jump the waitlist queue.

That is the better process. Saves the dance with the agent (IMO) that tries to get you to wait to let the system process it!

Definitely happened to me, luckily 3 'C' opened up. Checking this am, only 2 were left. AA IT at its best.

One thing I learned the other day -- BXP1s can only be processed one passenger at a time. So if you have 2 pax on a record, even if C2 pops up, you have to split the record and apply the BXP1s separately. Thankfully my EF alert went off during hours when Meeting Services was open so I just did it in one call, but otherwise you might have to call AA to split the record and then (if you're after hours) go to businessextra.com to apply the BXP1s yourself.

Regardless, there's never a good reason to waitlist a BXP1.

I have 7,500 points expiring at year end and haven't been traveling much. Any thoughts on the best use? It's a shame they haven't offered any extensions on expiring points.

I thought there was an established way of redeeming awards and returning them where the redeposited points have a new/later expiry? IIRC, there's discussion of that in this thread.

Failing that, gift an AC membership or Gold status (or a flight, for that matter) to someone who could use it.

Thanks...turns out "search" really is my friend :rolleyes:

Anyone know when the next referral code or promo code will be available? I called and they said there wasn't one right now but they usually have one every month.

I don't know how to subscribe to ExtrAA without actually signing up, therefore negating the sign-up bonus.

Thanks!

Somehow I signed up as interested without signing up, I got sent a survey, I did the survey, and I then got the promo code for 2000 points if I did a flight. I wish I had more specific details to share but its blurry.

Waitlist BXP1 or go with free status based upgrade?
 

Waitlisted for C class upgrade JFK-SNA using a BXP1. Am I better off removing the waitlist and BXP1 and instead relying on the normal domestic status based upgrade as an EXP? If C opens up, I can always just call and add it. Any experience if the BXP1 waitlist trumps the UDU for EXP?

Thanks!

Or, simply call and request they extend, so you don't have to redeem and redeposit

Is it just me or does everyone have either a lot of flights missing and no flights populate when you run a statement search? Seems like the site always has a lot of issues. Any remedies to this?

We gave up on Business Extra logging all our travellers' flights correctly. It's super prone to error. I don't understand why. But it just became too much of a hassle to contact them constantly to correct things. So now we get what we get and it's a nice bonus but we don't worry about the ones which slip through the cracks.