Qantas Frequent Flyer - Qantas comes through with upgrade

Just wanted to let frequent flyers out there know that upgrades do come through sometimes. I put in for an upgrade from Economy to Business with Qantas from Melb to Singapore for my family of five and Qantas came through!!!! Thrilled to know that frequent flyer programs do have this type of bonus.

Now that is impressive that you had 5 come through - although that can be a concern that loads were that light :o

What a great way to spend 200,000 points! Congratulations :)

Wow, five ^

Mind you, the loads in Business are light -

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Departing MEL on 24/04/12 12:00 AM for SIN
Flying QF


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QF 9 0 MEL SIN 388 Unavailable
24/04/12 3:30 PM 24/04/12 9:25 PM 72% / 63m

F2 A2 J9 C9 D9 I9 W1 R0 T0 Y9 B8 H7 K7 M7 L6 V1 S8 N5 Q4 O9 G0 X8 E0


What status have you?

Got upgraded to silver recently. Can't really figure out why I was upgraded to silver. Thought it was probably a PR exercise.
It was an A380 and we were in the last row of business. The plane was absolutely full.

I think you got your "Silver" and "Business Class" mixed up bora...must have been inbibing too much of the J Class wine ;)

Operational upgrades (op up's) are a mystery to most apart from Yield Management. Being Silver, you might have merely been lucky - in the right place at the right time. As you don't mention where the op up happened (ie. at check-in, Lounge or boarding), perhaps all the other CL's, Platinums an Golds had already checked in/boarded and they were looking for additional status members to bump - so count your lucky :-:'s