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First-Class Fares Drop While Free Upgrades Become Harder to Find

Grant Martin

Photo Credit: Business Class on American Airlines' Boeing 787 aircraft.  Wikipedia / Cweyer

Skift Take

Fewer upgrades are on the horizon for the 1% as airlines start to shift upgrade processes.

On the Monday of Memorial Day weekend this year, I scheduled a long transcontinental flight doglegging from Toronto to Charlotte to San Francisco, a two-part journey booked entirely on American Airlines. As an Executive Platinum member of American's AAdvantage loyalty program, complimentary upgrades prior to the day of travel were a big part of my consideration when booking, but curiously, on this trip they never materialized. Onl

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