I decided after my last trip in Envoy that I don´t seem to value it as much other people I know... such as my grandparents in London, who would kill to fly transatlantic in business class.

We´ll probably all fly to CA in June, and I´d like to upgrade my step-grandfather (who really needs it for health reasons) both ways, and my grandmother one-way. I have 3 SWUs.

My questions:
1. Can I upgrade a companion to Envoy if I don´t upgrade myself? Can I upgrade two companions at a time?

2. If the answer to either is "no", d´ya think the GA´s or FA´s will let me trade BP´s on the day of the flight?

3. Is this true for both SW & NAU´s?

4. The fare rules indicate that senior discounts are available for some international fares - would these be upgradeable?

Yonatan

I don't know if you can upgrade your step grandfather without you. But I do know from personal experiance that you can upgrade yourself and then trade seats with someone(my husband was in coach and I wanted to be with him, I gave my seat to a older women who was going overseas to do charity work). The FA didn't care who she was dealing with as long as we didn't trade seats more than once.

have a great trip with your family!

I think that the companion must be traveling in the same class of service as you - thus you both may upgrade, you may upgrade, but he alone may not upgrade.

The easiest thing is to just upgrade yourself and then swap seats.

rachel & ITRADE, thanks for the advice.
I've seen plenty of references to swapping seats, but never on doing this on an international flight. I assume they wouldn't be any stricter on transatlantic flights? Should I ask first?

Yonatan

Originally posted by yonatan:
rachel & ITRADE, thanks for the advice.
I've seen plenty of references to swapping seats, but never on doing this on an international flight. I assume they wouldn't be any stricter on transatlantic flights? Should I ask first?

Yonatan


Don't bother, just do. The FA may call him by the wrong name, but that's a small price to pay...

Originally posted by ITRADE:

The FA may call him by the wrong name, but that's a small price to pay...

My step-grandfather is the stereotypical fussy English gentleman type (if you met him you´d think he stepped of a novel).
Getting him to tolerate being addressed by my name without responding with biting sarcasm is going to take a lot of training before June http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif.

Assuming he is unable to hold his tongue, will this get me into trouble?


Yonatan