International Upgrades - Improved Experience

[TonyHancock]

I thought the new system sounded good, but with nothing at T- 48 and now nothing at T -24, I cant really see much advantage. perhaps something will happen at T-12?

I have a little bit of sympathy for QF because in reality we'll only believe the new improved system has improved if we get an upgrade confirmed earlier than we did under the old system. I have been lucky enough to have an upgrade confirmed at T - 7 days and then also had to wait until the last minute.

 

[MarcB]

I had a request in for a flight last Friday to AKL which I'd only put in on Tuesday when the upgrade O class offer came out. At T-48 the status on Qantas.com showed a duplicate sector in Y - on checkmytrip it showed one as business wait list, so there's some IT issues there. Previous requests have showed the wait list on Qantas.com.

Anyway, it came through as confirmed about T-20 although interestingly EF showed the seats in J that we ended up with (1A and 1B) as blocked from the time the wait list sector appeared at T-48. I had been checking EF and these seats were not previously blocked.

SMS came through no probs and in the end, there was only 4 of us in J out of 12 seats.

Good to get the confirmation well before the flight - much nicer to know well before you get to the airport where you'll be seated.

 

[GCC]

I have a little bit of sympathy for QF because in reality we'll only believe the new improved system has improved if we get an upgrade confirmed earlier than we did under the old system.

Quite true - but QF promote this as an improved experience. Here now at t - 4 with my account showing upgrade requested and no confirmation or decline. This is actually the worst points upgrade experience I've had in 4 years. The only possible improvement is that I may get an ODU at the lounge that I otherwise wouldn't have received - but chances are the same U/G would have been confirmed somewhere between T-12 and T-5 under the old system.

 

[TonyHancock]

Quite true - but QF promote this as an improved experience. Here now at t - 4 with my account showing upgrade requested and no confirmation or decline. This is actually the worst points upgrade experience I've had in 4 years. The only possible improvement is that I may get an ODU at the lounge that I otherwise wouldn't have received - but chances are the same U/G would have been confirmed somewhere between T-12 and T-5 under the old system.

I know some people here have reported seeing "upgrade declined" during the process previously, but when upgrades have not gone through I have always seen the "upgrade requested" right up to the point of boarding.

 

[sail0r]

I had a request in for a flight last Friday to AKL which I'd only put in on Tuesday when the upgrade O class offer came out. .

was it 16k points to upgrade?

 

[grant32]

I have a request in for W to J on QF6 on Saturday. At T-48 I saw a waitlist appear, and within seconds it was gone again. Booking still says in W. Flight seems wide open at this point, but at the time I was looking at flight loads on flightstats.com, and it could not find any results for about 30 minutes then started working again. Fingers crossed that everything is still in the system and working!

 

[hotpaws]

I have an upgrade question, would appreciate everyone's thoughts. Am booked QF93 MEL-LAX on Sunday 19/8 (T-70hrs now). Have an upgrade request J-F, am WP. Yesterday, and also for a long time now showing F9A9, and only 1 F seat allocated. This morning F2A0, still only 1 seat allocated. Is it likely that Qantas has sold at least 7 F seats in 24 hours, or are they allowing for J-F upgrades at t-48 hours. Had a similar situation earlier in the year, with SYD-JNB, went to F2A2 72 hours before, from F9A9, still got an upgrade and there were 6 free seats in F.
Would love to travel F in the A380, but I guess J will be ok if upgrade does not come through. Interestingly the flight looks very full, with limited Y availability, no PE and 5 J seats available.
Thanks for everyone's help.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I have an upgrade question, would appreciate everyone's thoughts. Am booked QF93 MEL-LAX on Sunday 19/8 (T-70hrs now). Have an upgrade request J-F, am WP. Yesterday, and also for a long time now showing F9A9, and only 1 F seat allocated. This morning F2A0, still only 1 seat allocated. Is it likely that Qantas has sold at least 7 F seats in 24 hours, or are they allowing for J-F upgrades at t-48 hours. Had a similar situation earlier in the year, with SYD-JNB, went to F2A2 72 hours before, from F9A9, still got an upgrade and there were 6 free seats in F.
Would love to travel F in the A380, but I guess J will be ok if upgrade does not come through. Interestingly the flight looks very full, with limited Y availability, no PE and 5 J seats available.
Thanks for everyone's help.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you but without looking at EF on the info provided I would think you have a good chance of being successful.
I have had an upgrade come through at exactly T-48 J-F with very similar loadings to your flight.
Good luck

 

[MelUser]

Sunday's QF93 upgrades will be processed tomorrow morning for Plats.

My guess is your upgrade is a certain as all seats sold in F are allocated.

Please do let us know

 

[cgoh]

Travelling on QF9 on Saturday, upgrade Y - Y+ confirmed at exactly T-48. However, when logging in to select seat, only 1 middle seat left, despite EF showing W9. I think I rather have my 50C back!.

 

[Happy Trails]

Travelling on QF9 on Saturday, upgrade Y - Y+ confirmed at exactly T-48. However, when logging in to select seat, only 1 middle seat left, despite EF showing W9. I think I rather have my 50C back!.

Hang in there, you may be in luck.
EF is showing only two seats available in PE plus one blocked, so my reading is that there will be bulk op-ups from PE to J.
Don't quote me though, it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.

 

[cgoh]

With W9 and N9, I really doubt any op-up will occur. But will be happy to be wrong in this instance

 

[MarcB]

With W9 and N9, I really doubt any op-up will occur. But will be happy to be wrong in this instance

QF9 (MEL-LHR) on Saturday is now showing 0 in all classes.

 

[TonyHancock]

QF9 (MEL-LHR) on Saturday is now showing 0 in all classes.

I'm not seeing that I get:

MEL-SIN: F8 A8 J9 C9 D9 I9 U0 W0 R0 T0 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 O9 G0 X9 E0
SIN-LHR: F9 A9 J5 C5 D5 I0 W1 R0 T0 Y0 B0 H0 K0 M0 L0 G0 E0

 

[MarcB]

I'm not seeing that I get:

MEL-SIN: F8 A8 J9 C9 D9 I9 U0 W0 R0 T0 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 O9 G0 X9 E0
SIN-LHR: F9 A9 J5 C5 D5 I0 W1 R0 T0 Y0 B0 H0 K0 M0 L0 G0 E0

Yep. If you break up the sectors, you'll get different availability - but if you are going from MEL to LHR on QF 9 you can't break them up like that, you have to purchase the sector as MEL-LHR.

With that said, on another check, I now see (MEL-LHR) F8 A8 P0 J5 C5 D5 I5 U0 W0 R0 T0 Z0 Y1B0 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0 G0 X0 E0

 

[TonyHancock]

Yep. If you break up the sectors, you'll get different availability - but if you are going from MEL to LHR on QF 9 you can't break them up like that, you have to purchase the sector as MEL-LHR.

With that said, on another check, I now see (MEL-LHR) F8 A8 P0 J5 C5 D5 I5 U0 W0 R0 T0 Z0 Y1B0 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0 G0 X0 E0

Not breaking the sectors up. One just takes the lowest availability in each sector as the availability for MEL-LHR. It is useful to do it this way to give a better view of where constraints are and also op-up possibilities.

 

[MarcB]

Not breaking the sectors up. One just takes the lowest availability in each sector as the availability for MEL-LHR. It is useful to do it this way to give a better view of where constraints are and also op-up possibilities.

True. But my understanding is that QF will not award an upgrade on a sector by sector basis (except maybe under the new at gate system) so I suspect the MEL-LHR loadings would be relevant if you'd put in an upgrade request for that journey and perhaps even for opups. This is often the reason why I break my journeys via another flight number via SIN - at least under the old system it increased the upgrade chances because it was 2 shots in the lottery, not one.

But I take your point - the actual seats free on each sector gives a better picture of where the loads are over the entire journey.

 

[hotpaws]

I have an upgrade question, would appreciate everyone's thoughts. Am booked QF93 MEL-LAX on Sunday 19/8 (T-70hrs now). Have an upgrade request J-F, am WP. Yesterday, and also for a long time now showing F9A9, and only 1 F seat allocated. This morning F2A0, still only 1 seat allocated. Is it likely that Qantas has sold at least 7 F seats in 24 hours, or are they allowing for J-F upgrades at t-48 hours. Had a similar situation earlier in the year, with SYD-JNB, went to F2A2 72 hours before, from F9A9, still got an upgrade and there were 6 free seats in F.
Would love to travel F in the A380, but I guess J will be ok if upgrade does not come through. Interestingly the flight looks very full, with limited Y availability, no PE and 5 J seats available.
Thanks for everyone's help.

Well my upgrade came through today, at roughly T-23hr. Was getting very worried, first T-48hr passed and no text, then T-36h. Had almost resigned myself to sitting in J!. Was allocated 2K, only 2 other centre seats available when I got the message. Thanks for everyones help.

 

[TonyHancock]

Well my upgrade came through today, at roughly T-23hr. Was getting very worried, first T-48hr passed and no text, then T-36h. Had almost resigned myself to sitting in J!. Was allocated 2K, only 2 other centre seats available when I got the message. Thanks for everyones help.

2K is a good seat!

 

[Kangol]

2K is a good seat!

Why is 2K good? (besides the fact that it is in F)
Do you mean good as in better than other F seats, or good that it is in F?