AA Ticket on QF Metal - Status Priority?

[SeatBackForward]

Hypothetical situation below.. I'm flying on a QF operated flight, on an AA ticket in Economy. I'm using my QFF WP status profile for the booking. If there were an Op Up opportunity - what would be the pecking order? I'm guessing:

1. QF Ticket + QFF WP
2. QF Ticket + OWE
3. AA Ticket + OWE
4. AA Ticket + QFF WP

Aware that there is no points upgrade opportunity in this instance due to it being an AA ticket.

 

[drron]

The only time I ever got a beep at the gate and then found myself sitting in J was when I was AA EXP. Quite a few years ago.
But in the last 4-5 years as BA gold zilch.

 

[SeatBackForward]

The only time I ever got a beep at the gate and then found myself sitting in J was when I was AA EXP. Quite a few years ago.
But in the last 4-5 years as BA gold zilch.

I'd be putting BA at the same as AA in my above scenario, so not at the top!

 

[SYD]

Hypothetical situation below.. I'm flying on a QF operated flight, on an AA ticket in Economy. I'm using my QFF WP status profile for the booking. If there were an Op Up opportunity - what would be the pecking order? I'm guessing:

1. QF Ticket + QFF WP
2. QF Ticket + OWE
3. AA Ticket + OWE
4. AA Ticket + QFF WP

Aware that there is no points upgrade opportunity in this instance due to it being an AA ticket.

Others have commented recently that OpUps are increasingly rare but I would have thought 1 then 4. You don't hear much about other non-QF OWEs getting upgraded on QF.

The only time I ever got a beep at the gate and then found myself sitting in J was when I was AA EXP. Quite a few years ago.
But in the last 4-5 years as BA gold zilch.

Ironically, BA have OpUp'd me twice from J->F. Once on SIN-SYD and then on another trip SYD-SIN. Both times I was on an AY ticket and AY code share. The first time I was sitting in the QF SIN lounge and my phone rang - BA asking if I would mind being moved to F. Let me think for a nanosecond....!

 

[SeatBackForward]

Others have commented recently that OpUps are increasingly rare but I would have thought 1 then 4. You don't hear much about other non-QF OWEs getting upgraded on QF.


Ironically, BA have OpUp'd me twice from J->F. Once on SIN-SYD and then on another trip SYD-SIN. Both times I was on an AY ticket and AY code share. The first time I was sitting in the QF SIN lounge and my phone rang - BA asking if I would mind being moved to F. Let me think for a nanosecond....!

My thinking for 1 & 2 was that QF are more likely to reward those giving them revenue directly, but your example demonstrates it can happen otherwise!


The mystic art of the Op-Up!