Tag Archives: first class upgrades

View from the Wing has an excellent post on how the upgrade queue is going to work for American Airlines–including some changes. I suggested pausing reading this post, go to his post, and come back here. Some of the changes make the American Airlines upgrade process EVEN more different from …

A few weeks ago, I wrote about real and fake EQMs on US Airways, how to spot the difference and the implications for either set. Another strange quirk on US Airways are its international and domestic rules pertain to a different definition of international and domestic. What? What I mean …

Upgrades on US Airways used to be something that could be gamed, and something that were mysterious. For example, Keri had platinum status on US Airways, but was “out upgraded” by a silver on a cross country flight once.  For how that was possible, check out this article. They cracked …

You are looking to fly-cross country and see a direct flight that stops midway.  The layover is only about 45 minutes, you get to stay on the plane, and you know you won’t miss your connection.  Perfect, right? Not necessarily.  Direct flights can negatively affect your attempts to get elite …

Back in May, I wrote about how US Airways is processing upgrades more times a day. This was great because it was making it more difficult for lower-elites to jump the queue. But US Airways may have fixed that issue completely. For how queue-jumping is done, check out my post …