Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

SG QF7 (SYD-DFW) 21 June. Flexible Y fare. Requested upgrade to J when I booked on 3 March, with fallback to PE. No luck on either, but I did get an empty seat next to me in Y, and a personal greeting.

SG (now LTG) QF8 (DFW-SYD) 1 July. Flexible fare. Requested upgrade on 3 March. Unsuccessful with J (unless I get a last minute reprieve on boarding), but got an upgrade to PE at T-19. Now I will find out whether premium economy middle seat is better or worse than standard economy aisle on a 17 hour flight.
 
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SG QF7 (SYD-DFW) 21 June. Flexible Y fare. Requested upgrade to J when I booked on 3 March, with fallback to PE. No luck on either, but I did get an empty seat next to me in Y, and a personal greeting.

SG (now LTG) QF8 (DFW-SYD) 1 July. Flexible fare. Requested upgrade on 3 March. Unsuccessful with J (unless I get a last minute reprieve on boarding), but got an upgrade to PE at T-19. Now I will find out whether premium economy middle seat is better or worse than standard economy aisle on a 17 hour flight.
Sorry to say J is showing full.
 
SG (now LTG) QF8 (DFW-SYD) 1 July. Flexible fare. Requested upgrade on 3 March. Unsuccessful with J (unless I get a last minute reprieve on boarding), but got an upgrade to PE at T-19. Now I will find out whether premium economy middle seat is better or worse than standard economy aisle on a 17 hour flight.
Happy to report that I was mistaken: my seat was bulkhead aisle premium economy, not middle seat. And yes, the upgrade was very worthwhile: closer to business than economy. Thanks to those who advised me to try it!
 
Still waiting on a Y-J upgrade for QF1 today SYD-SIN at T-9 and QF1 tomorrow for SIN-LHR. WP here. Had pretty good luck as a Gold with 70% upgrade success
 
Still waiting on a Y-J upgrade for QF1 today SYD-SIN at T-9 and QF1 tomorrow for SIN-LHR. WP here. Had pretty good luck as a Gold with 70% upgrade success
No luck on QF1 today (I didn't put in for premium economy so not sure if that would have been successful)
 
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QF702 MEL - CNS today. Y-J upgrade request declined at T4.
Wasn’t really expecting a win here given its school holidays in Vic and B737.
 
Bit old, but successful classic upgrades from economy to business on both these flights:
22/06/24 QF 87 Sydney-Seoul
01/07/24 QF 10 Tokyo-Melbourne
 
Failed J, but Y+ success at T-20 for QF94 LAX-MEL as a WP

Was looking bleak even though A380 as I hadn’t realized it is the end of school holidays.
 
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Update..

Mrs Goosh just got the text for Premium upgrade which is a win..

For both of us

Return flights from our trip out to the USA tonight from LAX - SYD.

Seperate DSC bookings on Economy Flex for Mrs Goosh (Gold) and myself (platinum).

Both received text message at 2:08pm LA time to say upgrade request not successful.
 

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