Some complimentary Platinum upgrade questions!

[tuapekastar]

Now that the type of seat require to be available for a complimentary platinum upgrade seems to be settled beyond any doubt (refer later posts in this thread) I have a couple of questions I'm hoping people can answer.

I want to utilise a couple of comp upgrades. Routing MEL-SYD-PER-SYD-MEL (upgrade legs in bold, surprise, surprise )

1. I selected MEL-PER return, and the choices I want are presented as a MEL-SYD-PER combo (single choice/fare) and a PER-SYD-MEL combo (also a single choice/fare). Fair enough.

2.The benefit is for four sectors per year and I take it a sector in this instance is one flight, say MEL-SYD is sector one, SYD-PER is sector two. And that's fine too, just want to know that I'm reading that correctly.

3. In the above situation, am I likely to have a problem just upgrading SYD-PER-SYD, i.e. given I've booked MEL-SYD-PER as one 'fare', is there any problem splitting the SYD-PER sector off for upgrade purposes (and so on for the return)? I don't really want to 'waste' any upgrades on MEL-SYD-MEL...just too short.

4. Is the bucket to look out for W? i.e. is it the DJ equivalent to QF's U?

I know I can ring Virgin and ask these questions but forewarned is forearmed, especially when you hear some of the misinformation that can be provided by the airline itself.

Thanks

 

[TonyHancock]

In January I did the PER-SYD-MEL as one fare and used one complimentary upgrade. Both flights were upgraded. The fare was classed as MEL-PER.

 

[tuapekastar]

In January I did the PER-SYD-MEL as one fare and used one complimentary upgrade. Both flights were upgraded. The fare was classed as MEL-PER.

Thanks muchly TonyHancock! I've just got off the phone to DJ (prior to reading your post).

I decided to stop fiddling around, satisfied myself there was going to be upgrade availability, and did what someone else did from the other thread and had the booking made ready to pull the trigger, rang DJ, and said I only wanted to upgrade the two long legs. The nice lady confirmed upgrade availability, then said (as I thought might happen) that she could not split them for upgrade purposes but then advised me just what you said.

Upgrades on all four flights, and only two upgrade credits used. A very good outcome!

 

[pshepvic]

Ok that's pretty good - I thought I read somewhere it is per sector, but obviously not if it's a connecting flight booking!


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