That is encouraging. Most people on these forums claim that if you are on an award ticket you are not eligible for an op-up.Jenny and I were upgraded from Economy (Award) to Premium Economy.
That is encouraging. Most people on these forums claim that if you are on an award ticket you are not eligible for an op-up.
A bit hard to substantiate that claim with so many reports here of it happening. The evidence of people's experience show that it certainly can happen.That is encouraging. Most people on these forums claim that if you are on an award ticket you are not eligible for an op-up.
I still believe that one of the factors in determining op-ups is often where you are seated. If they need to find space to seat a family group together and your seat would make that easy, then you have a good chance. It seems that op-ups are often a very manual process with the selection of the lucky passenger often being handled by the airport staff. They may have some guidelines as to who to upgrade, but it would seem there is also some discretion able to be applied.
Aah the good old days. :-|In EVERY one of the case I noted, I had been pre-allocated in exit row seats -|) and the op-up became apparent on check-in.
It's playing the odds ... one should always expect to travel in the cabin booked, so any such operational upgrade should always be treated as a bonus.I am sitting in the ADL QP, feeling particularly pleased. Heading to LAX on QF15 this morning, and have just received an op-up to J at check in, seat 3A. Yipppeeee
This is one of the several benefits that I've experienced since joining AFF in April . Thanks to the expert opinions on here I actually took a gamble and cancelled my upgrade request from wHY to J last week. Got even more confident after serfty's tip that I've got a good chance for an op-up with this flight.
Does this mean that you could pay for WHY but end up in premium economy or pay for premium economy and still end up in a skybed?e.g. 4 Class Pacific configurations are having their cabins reallocated to give an additional 28 Economy class seats.
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So instead of having a 14F 66J 40W & 187Y configuration we have a 14F 52J 26W & 215Y.
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You get the good seat, not the good service.Does this mean that you could pay for WHY but end up in premium economy or pay for premium economy and still end up in a skybed? ...
All these 'good seats' appear to be Q-blocked but some are showing as allocated so I'd assume WP's would have a good crack at them, maybe SG and PS/QP as well.... When the cabins are re-allocated are all seat allocations going to be adjusted or would all new bookings on existing flights have first bite at getting a better seat?