One of the most valuable perks of being an American Executive Platinum member are the systemwide upgrades you gather for qualifying for status. This year you still gather eight of them for qualifying for Executive Platinum,while starting next year you gather only four of them.
Each can be used to upgrade any revenue fare by one course of service. So you can book the cheapest economy fare available and upgrade to trade course, or you can book a discounted trade course ticket and upgrade to first course. I've done both many times. We'll see how these "one cabin" upgrades work once American introduces premium economy, and which could be a pretty negative development for upgrades.
Still,as of now they're extremely valuable, and I've yet to have one of these not clear on a longhaul flight. So that's awesome.
However, and I do always struggle a bit with deciding how and when to redeem them.
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Source: boardingarea.com