El Al Matmid - New booking classes for upgrades and bonus tickets

Below is a chart with the new booking classes for bonus tickets and upgrades.



Classes of Service
Current RBDs
New RBD
Applicable to

Economy
J
J
Economy Class bonus tickets

Business
W
X
Business Class bonus tickets

D/Z
R
Upgrade by points to Business Class

First
P
P
First Class Bonus tickets

A
A
Upgrade by points to First Class & as well the purchase of restricted First Class tickets




Tickets purchased with money:



Classes of Service
RBD
Applicable to

Business
W
Discount Fare Business Class Ticket

Z/D
Reduced Fare Business Class Ticket




Booking Classes that remain unchanged:



Classes of Service
RBD
Applicable to

Economy
H
Economy Bonus ticket for TP, PL,GL members only (for one and a half times the required points)

B
Economy Bonus ticket for TP & PL only (for double the required points)

Business
D/Z
Business Bonus ticket for TP & PL only (for double the amount of required points)

First
A
First Class Bonus ticket for TP & PL (for double the amount of required points)

Yeah, they announced this already like three weeks ago.

Perhaps you could do some formatting to make this easier to read?

Apologies for the bump, but I found out I needed this post (saw class R on KVS and had no idea what that was), and thought some people may find this (somewhat) better-formatted version helpful:


Classes of Service | Current | New | Applicable to
----------------------------------------------------------
Economy | J | J | Economy Class bonus tickets
Business | W | X | Business Class bonus tickets
Business | D/Z | R | Upgrade by points to Business Class
First | P | P | First Class Bonus tickets
First | A | A | Upgrade to First & restricted First

Inasmuch as the cost of these tickets hasn't changed I wonder if they are changing the points earned structure. There HAS to be some reason for this. AND knowing El Al and the airline business in general it is NOT going , in the long run, going to be advantageous to the consumer!

Inasmuch as the cost of these tickets hasn't changed I wonder if they are changing the points earned structure. There HAS to be some reason for this. AND knowing El Al and the airline business in general it is NOT going , in the long run, going to be advantageous to the consumer!

I would say they are adjusting them self to the world, probably the way it used
to be was a pain regarding cooperation with other airlines...
They also fixed the bug where you got points on specific scenario of upgrades.

Until recently you could book Economy Flight with Advanced upgrade in 2 ways:
1. Reserve S class and do an upgrade via voucher - D Class Ticketing, S Class points.
2. Make the reservation as D class, when the "payment" comes, you would pay
in S + Voucher, D Class Ticketing, D Class points.
(This was the same for F class... from I class)

used to enjoy this for years..., Helped for Status, Damn!