I don't think that flight is going where you think it's going...

6/24 AS 52 FAI-ANC
6/25 AS 148 ANC-DEN
AS 677 DEN-SEA
all cleared at OLCI - i was surprised being the lowly MVP that I am. Did being able to check in T-24 for 52 (roughly T-34 for 677) put me ahead of other MVPs for the later segments? if so I might add longer layovers, enabling earlier check-in, to jump queue for later flights in the itinerary.

6/30 AS 492 SEA-SAN, cleared at IRL check-in
originally on 498, didn't look like UG would happen, so i managed to finagle the later one by using standby flexibility out of PDX and adding segment to GEG.

7/4 AS 225 SFO-SEA (5/16 still unassigned)
AS 125 SEA-FAI (7/12 still unassigned)
both cleared sometime after -48; guess the loads are light because of the fourth?

Jul 06 AS711 LAX-YVR - Upgrade at 72 hours.

I booked this trip a couple of weeks in advance.

Jul 11 AS875 SEA-LIH cleared at 72 hours and there are still cheap, upgradable seats left for anyone looking to go to Kauai on Sunday.

no upgrade love for me to ATL on Monday....but then again, it was sold to me as a DL ticket. On the up side, I do have free wi-fi all the way down, and exit rows for the remainder of my flights...all on DL metal.

@ 47 hours out

a pair of UG's on AS 861 out of PDX for 7/23!!!

7/22 SEA-FAI 127 -- 1 1/2 hours out, empty first class, nobody on waiting list. upgrade at ticket counter since we were on award travel. I counted 6 empty seats when we departed.

7/28/2010 AS #864 OGG/PDX two UGs @ 48 hours out.

We are now 5 for 6 on Hawaiian flight UG's on AS

Those PDX - Hawaii flights seem pretty easy to score upgrades on. I am planning on a PDX-OGG trip later this year mostly to secure an easy long-haul upgrade

Despite reaching AS' newest top tier, it seems that there are no systems that actually designate 75K status and 5-day upgrades are NOT in effect.

23Jul2010 AS518 SEA-SNA upgraded approx 96 hours out. I saw U space available, called MVPG reservations line, and the upgrade was handled manually.

26Jul2010 AS515 SNA-SEA Sat in 13D for this one At 72 hours out, it went from F4 U2 Y0 to F2 U0 Y2. Obviously 2 MVPG upgrades cleared. Mine did not, and the other 2 F seats disappeared shortly thereafter with no U space ever reappearing. At the gate, I was #2 on a list at least a dozen long.

So my mistake on that last one, I didn't have time to call between 72 and 120 hours out to manually request my upgrade, and I thought that 75K's would get bumped up the list automatically. Evidently that is NOT happening yet. For now a 75K is just a regular MVPG who has flown a lot.

Shouldn't you have called before 72 hours if there was U space and you are 75K?

Let me just quote myself in case you didn't read that far

Oops...looks how closely I read without contacts in! "Excuses, excuses!"

Naw, your eyes are still recovering from in the infamous AA Breakfast pic.

I fared up to a value fare a few months ago (price difference was only $50 -60 more than hot deals) for PDX-HNL inaugural on 9/20/10. No U was left at that time but I just checked and I'm in a F seat. Good outcome on my first value fare.

Now just have to call in cert ugrades for the remaining flights for the year

DOH F is sold out on my BOS-PDX flight on 9/17