{"id":136160,"date":"2026-08-10T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/10\/american-airlines-is-making-a-major-change-to-free-upgrades-and-some-elite-members-wont-get-business-class-travel-leisure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:17:00","slug":"american-airlines-is-making-a-major-change-to-free-upgrades-and-some-elite-members-wont-get-business-class-travel-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/10\/american-airlines-is-making-a-major-change-to-free-upgrades-and-some-elite-members-wont-get-business-class-travel-leisure\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Is Making a Major Change to Free Upgrades\u2014and Some Elite Members Won\u2019t Get Business Class &#8211; Travel + Leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxObUFpRkVGRmhaQ0E2akNQbjVCNEsxTWg0ek83aEZjWkNuN2ljakxKZFc4U25XY2hwcFd6SUZpRkZnS0ZlSlNaYjNWUHlSdVY4ZVJYRktlOVZBWmZwWjlnTGd0OVE3cWtyelpNMDhzaTBNNUtrdGhxTWFNUDUySWhrOVRxWWdzZ2VLakJIWmloSQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">American Airlines Is Making a Major Change to Free Upgrades\u2014and Some Elite Members Won\u2019t Get Business Class<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Travel + Leisure<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines Is Making a Major Change to Free Upgrades\u2014and Some Elite Members Won\u2019t Get Business Class&nbsp;&nbsp;Travel + Leisure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}