companion fare and upgrade question
Aug 11, 2017, 7:14 pm
#46
Community Director Emerita
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Anywhere warm
Posts: 33,747
I'm looking at buying SAN-KOA. A friend is giving me 2 MVP upgrades to cover one direction. There is no upgradeable space today. If I buy, how do I track to see whether upgrade space becomes available?
Aug 11, 2017, 7:59 pm
#47
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: YVR, HNL
Programs: AS 75k, UA peon, BA Bronze, AC E50k, Marriott Plat, HH Diamond, Fairmont Plat (RIP)
Posts: 7,832
If you have an EF subscription, you can set an alert for U. If not, just keep looking on AS.com. Search using the GGU upgrade radio button. You are looking for the dark blue background with white F.
Sep 21, 2017, 3:18 pm
#48
Join Date: Aug 2013
Programs: Alaska MVP Gold
Posts: 917
Has anyone else recently been offered a last-minute upgrade for just one seat? My understanding has long been that the PNR can't be split, so one person upgrading without the other wasn't possible. Yet that is exactly what happened to me yesterday. Maybe because it was under gate control at that point?
Sep 22, 2017, 6:59 am
#49
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 66
Has anyone else recently been offered a last-minute upgrade for just one seat? My understanding has long been that the PNR can't be split, so one person upgrading without the other wasn't possible. Yet that is exactly what happened to me yesterday. Maybe because it was under gate control at that point?
Sep 22, 2017, 8:56 am
#50
Join Date: Aug 2013
Programs: Alaska MVP Gold
Posts: 917
Yes, it happened to me from HNL to SEA. I was with my wife and son in row 6. Son and I were on a companion fare. I never even looked at upgrade list because in 40+ flights to and from Hawaiian Islands on AS I have never been upgraded at gate (have had lots of upgrades via U or GGU). Agent came on the plane and offered me the last seat in F. It was fathers day and my wife and son insisted I take it (I was feeling a little guilty leaving both of them to bail solo into F). That also left them with an empty seat in row 6. :-).
Nice to discover that a single-seat upgrade is still a possibility in some cases.