arollins

this is AA movie schedule for the month of Jan.
01-15 eastbound/southbound, DOLPHIN TALE; westbound/northbound REAL STEEL
16-31 eastbound/southbound, FOOT LOOSE; westbound/northbound MONEYBALL

First class meal service for daytime flights is Chicken salad with cilantro dressing, tortilla strips also humus with pita chips, the other choice is hamburger with chips.

Angust

I saw yours confirmed for 1/6 1522, did you do anything special? I am on same flight and have not heard of any upgrades my date of purchase was Dec 16,2011

FrequentFlyerMB

Hi - I'm flying 20 segments in January and would love to meet-up with others. I'm AA Gold and do not have AC access. Here are my flights. Thanks.

1/6 SFO-ORD 17:50-23:50
1/7 ORD-SFO 19:15-21:55
1/8 SFO-DFW 9:35-15:00
1/8 DFW-SFO 16:10-17:55
1/14 SFO-ORD 9:00-15:30
1/14 ORD-SFO 19:15-21:55
1/14 SFO-ORD 23:55-5:50
1/15 ORD-SFO 6:50-9:25
1/19 SFO-ORD 23:55-5:50
1/20 ORD-SFO 6:50-9:25
1/20 SFO-ORD 10:35-16:55
1/20 ORD-SFO 19:15-21:55
1/21 SFO-DFW 0:25-5:35
1/21 DFW-ORD 6:45-9:10
1/21 ORD-DFW 10:30-13:05
1/21 DFW-SFO 13:55-15:40
1/28 SFO-DFW 0:25-5:35
1/28 DFW-BOS 6:15-10:35
1/29 BOS-DFW 11:35-15:05
1/29 DFW-SFO 16:10-17:55

arollins

While we are up to almost 100 people, not all of us are flying at the same time. There are several flights with 9 people or so. PM is the best way. I do not think hanging around in front of the AC might be a good idea, not sure if others AC members that are participating on this might be very receptive to the idea. I strongly suggest others to use FT luggage tags, or some sort of recognizable attire, a CHICAGO DO shirt, or the ITA SOFTWARE caps.
Looking forward to meet new FT'rs.

Angust

In ORD about half way down the concourse K is a series of koisks where you can print boarding documents.

jetsetr

Wow, I find that very odd. I did not use a SWU, and was cleared because the FC cabin was basically empty on that flight (at least when I was cleared it was basically empty). I figured you must have been upgraded as well, as I saw you purchased before I did. Did you actually "request" your upgrade, either during booking or after ticketing?

Angust

What about that Flyertalker Trophey thing SweetWillie has I know kind of large and cumbersome to carry around.

uxb

Good thing I am bringing plenty of DVDs w/ me.

Angust

I guess I am spoiled by the DL and UA systems where I do not need to go in and physically request the upgrade. it appears on this one flight I did not request until tonight. Hopefully it will clear while a seat or two are still open.

jetsetr

Ah, yes. This first confused me, too, coming from the UA system.

aktchi

I have two of those---FT luggage tag and ITA cap---so I am covered. I guess you can't send a drink to the back of the plane, but say hi if you see me.

2millionquest

Hi everyone:

I'm enjoying my first morning on holiday in Athens, where I will be all this week. The good news is that I'm between 7 and 10 hours ahead of most of you, so updates are a bit easier to keep up with.

However, many folks are posting in various threads and so on. It would be really helpful if everyone would PM me with details such as upgrades clearing, purchase dates, errors/omissions/corrections, et cetera. I am spending a lot of time checking all the various places to try to glean necessary info for our spreadsheet.

Also, please give me both flight number and flight times. I'm spending a lot of time looking up one or the other. It's amazing how many different flights are eligible for TEQM!

As of the update I just did, we're up to 72 flyers -- I know there are others posting in other threads who are participating, such as SweetWillie. If you see someone post in a thread that they're participating and you know they're not on our list, would you please ask them to join the list. As I've said before, the more info we gather, the more robust our statistics will be.

Finally, I do not have purchase dates for a large number of our participants and/or upgrade info. Please let me know your upgrade success (especially EXPs), even if you failed to secure one. Although I'm not sure how to notate it yet or if it will be a valuable data point, if you don't get your upgrade, and you have the time, please make note of how many were on the list and where you stood when the flight departed.

Thanks, everybody. I think we have a valuable opportunity to gather lots of interesting and useful factual rather than anecdotal info this month that we will be able to use for some time to come in our many, many, many discussions of upgrade, irops, and so on. Let's make the most use of it that we can!!

jetsetr

Appreciate all of the amazing effort, 2millionquest! Thanks much and enjoy Athens. Safe travels!

cova

Is it meaning to have both the date of ticket purchase and also the date of upgrade request?

In my case, several tickets were purchased before EXP status - then when earned - then I went through and did the requests. Plus I had to get AA to fix all those future reservations as they stayed at Platinum even though the number of 500-coupons was showing zero at the time of request.

Sweet Willie

+1, this is the approach I've been taking.
ugh, crappy selection
sorry my friend, trophey thing was passed on a long time ago (might be time to bump that thread@:-)). I was thinking you could carry me around but I'm large and cumbersome as well