Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

[DejaBrew]

With the Bid for Upgrades - are members using this to put in a bid that is higher than the request upgrade amount to try to jump the queue, or are you using it to put in a lower amount to hopefully snag a J seat cheap that they haven't been able to fill by other means?

Bid Now Upgrades are only processed after Classic Upgrade requests have been processed/confirmed, so not sure it's going to help anyone jump the queue. I think the goal would be more to snag a "cheap" upgrade. Can't say I've ever bothered with them personally, but who knows, perhaps I'm missing a trick?

 

[RSD]

Bid Now Upgrades are only processed after Classic Upgrade requests have been processed/confirmed, so not sure it's going to help anyone jump the queue. I think the goal would be more to snag a "cheap" upgrade. Can't say I've ever bothered with them personally, but who knows, perhaps I'm missing a trick?

OK cheers - wasn't aware that bid now's get processed after Classic Upgrade requests have been filled. I've got a Classic Upgrade request in for my HKG-SYD flight so I will stick with that then! (not overly hopeful of getting it as when I picked my Y seat that was looking pretty full.

 

[Cessna 180]

QF 773 MEL-PER last Wednesday.

Booked Tuesday Morn, request put in Tue eve when I saw the back was already chockas. Confirmed around 0800, approximate five hours prior to departure.

Interestingly, I bumped in to a friend of mine in the lounge who was on work travel for QF. He was assigned 4B and got a new ticket for 3C at the gate. We were both about the last to board.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Tbh QF 35 is using A332 - the benefits is not as much compared to newer aircraft like 787 or A380

Seat isn't much different and you get WiFi on the 332 most of the way

 

[HockeyMonkey]

Partial success Y > Y+ on QF12 LAX-SYD as a WP @ T-20

A little surprising given it is a Wednesday and there were 8 J seats for sale yesterday.

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With the Bid for Upgrades - are members using this to put in a bid that is higher than the request upgrade amount to try to jump the queue, or are you using it to put in a lower amount to hopefully snag a J seat cheap that they haven't been able to fill by other means?

I understand classic upgrades are higher in the queue than Bid for upgrades so it wouldn’t be to jump the queue