Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

[mrsterryn]

I use this to bring hope for my QF2 in early Dec, despite of jpp42's experiences...
BTW, is it more useful to request for a last-minute upgrade at the check-in / service / transit desk or in a lounge?

Definitely check that you will take an upgrade at the gate
Happen to see a bloke in the lounge in Sydney who was hoping to a business upgrade on QF11 . Saw him a bit later on the flight. He had gotten a gate upgrade to premium

 

[tdimdad]

Definitely check that you will take an upgrade at the gate
Happen to see a bloke in the lounge in Sydney who was hoping to a business upgrade on QF11 . Saw him a bit later on the flight. He had gotten a gate upgrade to premium

Yes, that's all done. I submitted the request in late Sep for J with the options for PE and gate upgrades selected. The question is more around where does it make best sense to check for last-minute upgrades if the original request hasn't gone through. BTW, some airlines sell late upgrades but does QF ever do that?

 

[emilbulls]

QF46 DPS-MEL
Y —> J
Unsuccessful T-10.5
QF Gold 2 pax

 

[love_the_life]

BNE - CNS flight on Sunday chockers so no upgrade; looks the same for return on Thursday
Disc Y
QFF SG

 

[Tropic]

QF764 flex Y - no
QF 45 flex Y - yes (in F lounge)
QF44 flex Y - no
QF643 flex Y - yes instant on booking
Nb. Confirmed prev exp that using stacked GV results in upgrade requests being 'overlooked' by QF IT system, unless available at time of booking. Have only secured when done manually in lounge.

 

[MiLK_MaN]

Upgraded BNE-LAX on Sat Nov 5 at T-28, and then again at the gate for LAX-BNE on Tue Nov 15. Finally get to burn some stockpiled QF points.

 

[Mr_Orange]

Rtn flight a couple of days later is waitlisted.

I received the good news SMS at T-8 .

 

[tdimdad]

From Y flex > PE on 16/11 QF1 SYD-LHR as an SG. Got an SMS at T-21.

However, this messed up the special meal request. Nothing loaded from Sydney, and an Y meal loaded in Singapore.

The FA's were very sympathetic and apologetic but it clearly was a QF system fault: dropped off the Y meal when I was moved away from the cabin but didn't have sufficient time for the caterer to load a PE meal. There was also another pax in the cabin with the same meal request who missed out.
It was good to get at least the Y meals from SIN, otherwise the 14 hours might have been a bit downcast.

 

[Blackadder]

QF 840 SYD-DRW 20NOV ,upgrade success T -28.

 

[TedE]

QF9 on 22/11/22
MEL-PER
Discount Y —> J
Success at T-29 (Lowly Bronze)

2 from 2 for upgrade requests. Hoping they don't run out of Champagne pre-takeoff like last month.

Amusingly, I went to swipe type "Discount" on my phone and a certain F word came up instead. I was tempted to leave it as "F....ing Y".

 

[bertflyer]

Flex Y UG to J on QF1 SIN to LHR Nov 20 as SG, received the good news around T-18!
My first time in the refurbed A380 and managed to snag 11A in Emerald city (is it still called that after the refurb?)
Headed up to SIN on QF35 in Y, absolutely chockers in Y and J.

 

[HarryTheFlyer]

QF 16 LAX to BNE 22 Nov
Saver Y to J confirmed at T48.5 T60.5 as WP.

Edit: couldn’t do my math correctly.

 

[sudoer]

A friend who holds Plat is waiting on an W or J upgrade for QF1 SYD-SIN tomorrow (from Flex Y).

Flight loads a few hours either side of T-48 were J9 C5 D1 W9 R3, no sign of upgrade.

At T-26 it updated to J5 C0 D0 W9 R0, presumably some upgrades were processed but still no sign on their booking.

It's nearly T-25 and I'm pretty surprised theirs hasn't been approved. Does anyone know if SYD-LHR requests from lower tiers take priority over SYD-SIN requests from higher tiers?

 

[PERLHR]

As one world Emerald, never been upgraded on the flights across country Perth to Sydney and back. Mind you I don't really value the minimum offer and accept it's probably never ever going to accepted on that route!

 

[defurax]

Yes, even as a P1 I was pretty much back of the queue all year when upgrading solely on the SIN-LHR leg of QF1/2. I got most of my upgrades a few hours before departure or a the gate. Looking at EF I could see some P1 being processed at T-7 days ex-SYD.

Post automatically merged: Nov 21, 2022

A friend who holds Plat is waiting on an W or J upgrade for QF1 SYD-SIN tomorrow (from Flex Y).

Flight loads a few hours either side of T-48 were J9 C5 D1 W9 R3, no sign of upgrade.

At T-26 it updated to J5 C0 D0 W9 R0, presumably some upgrades were processed but still no sign on their booking.

It's nearly T-25 and I'm pretty surprised theirs hasn't been approved. Does anyone know if SYD-LHR requests from lower tiers take priority over SYD-SIN requests from higher tiers?

 

[sudoer]

At T-24 all the remaining J seats got snapped up.

W upgrade came through at T-14

 

[NSun]

SYD-DFW this afternoon, upgraded from Y+ to J at T-30 as a WP.

Was only one seat left in the cabin after mine was processed so I was lucky. Even more so that the spare seat was 1A to I moved there from 5E.

 

[Wong.a]

Success on SYD-LAX on QF11 departing 28Nov2022, upgraded from W-J as a WP, at T-26. Was getting excited as I wasn’t seeing any inventory for J (now only seeing F1).

 

[Ansett]

Success Y-J on 30th November at T-75 QF 158 AKL - MEL

 

[HockeyMonkey]

Success WP Y-Y+ on QF 11 SYD-LAX at T-21 for tomorrow. J upgrade to US remains elusive even on the A380