What is S status?

[Melvin]

Hi all,

Just dropped off my partner at Heathrow T5 for a BA flight, we had to check-in at the customer service area as the ticket wasn't confirmed, something to do with BA changing to an earlier flight as the original one was cancelled. It was booked with QF points.

At one point the lady got on the phone to someone and said that the passenger was S status. When she got off the phone she told him that he'd been upgraded to Premium Economy!

What is S status, is it related to the upgrade in some way?

Thanks,

Mel

 

[serfty]

My initial thought was that S is a discount booking class, however it was an award ticket which is normally X class and "S Status" is not "S Class".

Maybe it related to a status for you booking? Like "Confirmed", "Ticketed", ... "Suspended"?

 

[kelix]

Standby...

 

[NM]

Commonly use reservation status codes are:

OK - Confirmed reservation
NS - No seat (infant)
RQ - On request or standby
SA - Subject to availability

SA is commonly used for non-rev travel, but its possible it was also used in this case.
KK or NK is also sometimes used for a confirmed reservation.

 

[MissBurrill]

Saphire?

Karen

 

[medhead]

Many years ago (20+) we had the son of my dad's work friend visit us in Cairns for a holiday from the UK. The other parent was a BA pilot. I remember quiet well (but without proper details) him trying to confirm his return flights, which were all booked as standby. This wasn't going very well, and in particular they weren't responding at all to his claims to be a priority pax. But then finally he read all the details and said he was "X" status. Which got a response of why didn't you say your were staff and all was good. Sorry but that is all of my very hazy memory on this.

But they seemed to have some sort of secret code for pax many years ago. Maybe they still do.....