JFK to San Not Upgrade Eligible?
Mar 6, 2016, 7:16 am
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JFK to San Not Upgrade Eligible?
Trying to book a nonstop flight from JFK to SAN at the end of May. On a T fare the booking option says "Not upgrade Eligible to First". Has there been a change? Why no complementary upgrades on this route? Thanks
Mar 6, 2016, 7:37 am
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The flight is eligible, it's just a long-standing bug showing it as ineligible on the website. You will see it on all the upgrade eligible JFK trans-con routes that were formerly eligible for lounge access (and thus carry J fare codes for F) -- SEA, PDX, DEN, LAS, PHX, SAN. As well as any domestic flight that's a continuation of an International flight (for example, DL 110 and 81 ATL-LAX) which also carry J fare class codes for First.
Last edited by xliioper; Mar 6, 2016 at 7:42 am
Mar 6, 2016, 8:11 am
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The flight is eligible, it's just a long-standing bug showing it as ineligible on the website. You will see it on all the upgrade eligible JFK trans-con routes that were formerly eligible for lounge access (and thus carry J fare codes for F) -- SEA, PDX, DEN, LAS, PHX, SAN. As well as any domestic flight that's a continuation of an International flight (for example, DL 110 and 81 ATL-LAX) which also carry J fare class codes for First.
Mar 6, 2016, 8:33 am
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True if OP correctly means SAN = San Diego. However, if SAN means San Francisco (SFO) to the OP, the upgrade rules are different on this nonstop route. The lack of all caps in the thread title can be interpreted either way.
Mar 6, 2016, 2:36 pm
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I have post-May 16 AMS-SEA-PHX DL ticket that shows SEA-PHX is not eligible for complimentary upgrade but let me get a seat in C+.
Not sure why but I am guessing it too is a glitch as my outbound PHX-LAX leg of PHX-LAX-AMS is saying its eligible.
Not sure why but I am guessing it too is a glitch as my outbound PHX-LAX leg of PHX-LAX-AMS is saying its eligible.
Mar 6, 2016, 7:16 pm
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For the most part if the flight uses J/C/D/Z instead of F/G/A/P the system errors out and states not upgrade eligible. It just doesn't understand the those flights are actually Domestic First flights and not Delta One.
Mar 6, 2016, 10:32 pm
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