Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

[Cloud9]

If you are a bronze FF, 80 hours before your flight time, they open the entire seating chart up to the rest of us to choose. So get in as soon as you can once it hits, so you can get a good seat if still available!

Neeeeeearly. It's opened up to everyone. There are seats that silver, gold, and platinum cannot access before T80 as well.

 

[imjustjess]

Neeeeeearly. It's opened up to everyone. There are seats that silver, gold, and platinum cannot access before T80 as well.

So close! Thank's for clarifying

 

[BenP]

Thanks for the info and checking - what a bummer. Friday night to London was probably always going to be a tough ask! Fingers crossed for the way back.

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What’s the T-80 rule? Sorry - newbie here! Still getting my head around the terms.

A handy little calculator I found after I also recently learnt about the T-80 rule

QF T-80 Calculator

 

[imjustjess]

Flying 11 September on QF12 LAX to SYD PE, Bronze. Put in my classic upgrade request about 4 weeks ago. Expert Flyer is saying minimum 9 J seats available. I am hopeful!

Update: Got the upgrade at T-27! Over the moon and looking forward to a good few hours sleep before arriving back home.

 

[DejaBrew]

Update: Got the upgrade at T-27! Over the moon and looking forward to a good few hours sleep before arriving back home.

Woohoo!!! Congrats!! Enjoy the upgrade

 

[Cloud9]

Update: Got the upgrade at T-27! Over the moon and looking forward to a good few hours sleep before arriving back home.

Epic news! Be sure to partake of some light libations to help you drift off.

 

[sudoer]

Coming home this Saturday so P1 upgrades should've been processed by now, once again in flex PE. Loads are F1 A0 J2 C0 D0 I0 W4 R1 T0. Not holding my breath...

So over the last week, loads on QF1 LHR-SYD were moving in the right direction - it was F3 J5 W2 until an hour ago and I was quite optimistic about my upgrade request.

Then at T-27, loads changed to F1 J1 W8, but WP on a flex PE fare didn't make the cut!

As I understand the prioritisation of classic upgrades, CL/P1s on any fare class and higher PCV WPs in Flex PE (not Sale/Saver) should be the only upgrade requests ahead of me? Is that correct?

The seats which freed up in the PE seat map appear to be 4 individual travellers (two from bulkhead so very possibly P1/CL) and 1 couple.

At risk of sounding a little DYKWIA, it feels quite unlikely there were 5 individual parties that met the above criteria. Anyway, we'll see how the upgrade at gate request goes...

 

[sudoer]

OK I will forgive and forget, guess I was just that far down the pecking order.

T-26 WP QF2 LHR-SYD 1W -> 1J success



Loads now F1 J1 W9.

 

[Mal P]

Request to First confirmed on QF93 from MEL to LAX on 16Sep at 11:55. Excited, my first Qantas First experience! Need a neck massage at the spa.

 

[willyroo]

Mrs willyroo QF SG - discount Y -> J - requested by me (also SG) around 9 months out:

QF1 SIN-LHR 4 Sep - Yeah? Nah.
QF2 LHR-SIN 13 Sep - Yeah? Nah. look up the page
QF52 SIN-BNE 14 Sep (requested about 10 days out) - Yeah, Nah...

 

[ChrisMars]

Mrs willyroo QF SG - discount Y -> J - requested by me (also SG) around 9 months out:

QF1 SIN-LHR 4 Sep - Yeah? Nah.
QF2 LHR-SIN 13 Sep - Yeah? Nah. look up the page
QF52 SIN-BNE 14 Sep (requested about 10 days out) - Yeah, Nah...

Did you pick the option to try Y->W for the QF1/2? Or only Y->J?

 

[Pvcmenace]

QF-29, 19/09 WP, Saver Y to J all three of us confirmed T-60 loads were J9 C9 D7 I5.

Return on QF30, 29/9 not looking good loads J2 everything else 0

 

[tomlee1986]

QF-29, 19/09 WP, Saver Y to J all three of us confirmed T-60 loads were J9 C9 D7 I5.

Return on QF30, 29/9 not looking good loads J2 everything else 0

safe flight but tbh this is excellent news for me as LESS people going to HKG, and MORE people departing!

 

[Pvcmenace]

safe flight but tbh this is excellent news for me as LESS people going to HKG, and MORE people departing!

I think it is that the 29th is a Sunday the 30th loads are a lot lighter

 

[roastheg]

Success
T-27.5 WP. QF1 28/9 (Sat) SYD-LHR W->J
F2 J7 W3 just before, now F1 J1 W9

 

[Mr_Orange]

Enjoy! I prefer the 388 in J to the 332/333/789. Everything* feels more special on a jumbo!

We interupt proceedings to bring you this important message:

Objection to the use of the word "jumbo" to refer to an A380. Jumbo is reserved solely for the Queen of the Skies, the 747.

 

[dairyfloss]

We interupt proceedings to bring you this important message:

Objection to the use of the word "jumbo" to refer to an A380. Jumbo is reserved solely for the Queen of the Skies, the 747.

Sorry... 'super jumbo'?

 

[Mr_Orange]

Sorry... 'super jumbo'?

Lard-ar5e, would be more appropriate

 

[CaptainCurtis]

QF73 SYD - SFO Y to W received at T-20. Originally showering J5 and W4 but then changed to J1 and W8 at T-25.

Still showing J1 so perhaps there’s hope.

 

[ChrisMars]

QF73 SYD - SFO Y to W received at T-20. Originally showering J5 and W4 but then changed to J1 and W8 at T-25.

Still showing J1 so perhaps there’s hope.

Gate / lounge upgrade happens, good luck