American Airlines is making its best free upgrade harder to get0

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• August 7, 2026

American Airlines is making it harder for its most loyal customers to score one of its most coveted perks. American Airlines said on Thursday that beginning August 25, elite AAdvantage members traveling on several of American’s longest domestic routes, including select transcontinental flights and trips to Hawaii, will no longer receive complimentary upgrades from economy