flight upgrades

Has anyone tried requesting an upgrade to Premium Economy at the airport on Japan Airlines? According to their website, upgrades are available on the day of the flight, subject to availability, for a fixed price of AUD450 from Australia to Japan or JPY40,000 in the other direction. Fixed-price...

Is there any merit to this gal's story? I suspect that she's gotten lucky more than anything else. https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/how-to-upgrade-to-business-class-for-20-aussie-traveller-spills-secret-to-getting-the-best-seats-on-flights-c-11452252

I was going to post in the Help thread but I don't have enough privileges to post there yet :oops: 😅 So... next May I want to go to Hawaii and I'd ideally like to use my VFF points to snag a unicorn Business Award return if possible. I watched Matt's webinar on how to use the various websites...

I'm flying Singapore Airlines tomorrow from HKT to SIN. During online check-in, I received this offer to purchase an upgrade to business class: The price works out to be just over $600 to upgrade to J. It's a 2-hour flight so not worth it at all, but found it interesting to be at least given...

(Hopefully) a quick question: I'm an Accor+Platinum who currently has 2 unused Suite Night Upgrades (expiring in December 31, 2023) and plan on retaining Platinum later this year (currently have 45 nights with a further 10 nights booked to early September so will probably hit Platinum in...

Flying mid April 2024 LHR-SYD return in Y. Are there any days of the week which stand a better chance of scoring an upgrade?

Has anyone else experienced this? I find VA usually very reliable with the posting of points and SCs but lately I've had problems with points and SCs posting after successful upgrade bid flights. Flights usually post within 2 days and, if it doesn't, it usually means it won't. I find it very...

Can I upgrade an QF or an EK flight with Skywards miles when I booked via Qantas? I am pretty sure: No! But still, the question to the pro's. Here are the details: - MEL - DXB booked as QF flight number but on EK metal - DXB - MUC booked as EK flight number - Booked via Qantas - Emirates does...

I hold an economy ticket bought online directly from the Qantas website for an international flight. When I log into Qantas website and click on "Upgrade" it says "Upgrade not available Fare type not eligible". Is there any chance of a paid upgrade at check-in on the day of the flight or no...

Hi Would be possible to upgrade a JAL Economy ticket to Business on the day of the departure. Sometimes, there were unsold business class seat on the day of departure and the airlines offer them for a price at the airport's check in counter. Anyone had that experience recently.

Myself and my wife are booked for HKG - London return leaving next Thursday, June 15th. After calculating I could have around 100k AsiaMiles (100k AMEX & 100k Qantas points), I have attempted to upgrade with Cathay to at least premium economy with no luck. Apparently, I have booked into economy...

When have you received an upgrade from an airline, hotel, car rental company or another travel-related business that wasn't actually better than what you originally booked? I can think of a couple of examples with hotel bookings. E.g. I got "upgraded" at a hotel in Abu Dhabi from a corner room...

Hi all I have scoured forums and not seen an exact answer to this question. I am travelling MEL-DXB-CDG-DXB-MEL on EK in a couple of months. QF codeshare ticket booked on QF website. Friends recently flew EK (booked directly with EK) and were able to ask for a cash upgrade at check in counter in...

Hello, I'm a QF WP - but clearly a rookie when it comes to QF international upgrades. So flying to NZ in October - MQL-SYD (Q), SYD-AKL (Q) ... then ZQN-MEL (N), MEL-MQL (N) Now - I have not realised that INTERNATIONAL Q and N economy fare categories are not eligible for upgrade to business...

I have staff travel (my son is Q pilot). My sister has now been added, and when there is an upgrade to business, she gets it and I don't. Is it because the letter of her first name is before mine? My son checked, onboarding I have priority, but for upgrades we show as equal. Not a happy mum lol!!

Dear AFF community, I'm looking for some advice here after hitting repeated roadblocks with Qantas Customer Care. Long story short: Mrs GO was flying QF SYD-MEL return in Y class for work in December 2022, on a corporate gig booked by a travel agent. I upgraded her Y flights to J using my QFF...

Basically as it says in the title. If you upgrade a family member from your FF account for a domestic, does it have the potential to instant confirm like when you upgrade yourself? Obviously assuming all the other criteria such as availability, etc. Just trying to work out if there’s a...

Hi there, apologies for the newbie question. I'm thinking of flying Business BNE-LHR either June or November (I know), but only have 77k Krisflyer miles - at best, I'm only going to be able to take the sting off, but want to lessen the pain as much as possible! Award flights are barely...

I was wondering how Qantas process the upgrade request on those services that stop in a city before continuing to the final destination. Using QF1 as example, which starts from SYD, stop at SIN before continuing to LHR, how would the upgrade requests being processed if say, the first leg of QF1...

Just found out that if you upgrade to a higher class using points on Garuda that you get absolutely no frequent flyer points for the original booking class. For example, if you upgrade a Y fare to a business class seat (Class O) you get no frequent flyer points for the flight. Has anyone else...