Jet airways one way upgrade cost LHR-BOM from Y
Sep 5, 2013, 1:27 am
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In case anyone interested, I DID get a one-way upgrade (what they now call 'upsell' ) from economy to premier on Jet airways. I paid £699+ £4.50 creditcard charge. This is in contrary to the 'list' what onlysuites posted earlier.
a) I am not a jet privilage member
b) I do not have any relatives working for Jet
b) First time I am flying jet airways !
a) I am not a jet privilage member
b) I do not have any relatives working for Jet
b) First time I am flying jet airways !
Sep 5, 2013, 3:41 am
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Sep 7, 2013, 12:51 pm
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Onlysuites and keyser,
May be its helpful for you to know - jet airways uses travel consolidator and these consolidators publishes 'special fares' to cross sell via other ticketing mechanisms. jet uses dnatas agents screens at heathrow ticketing desk and this will only show up if they have last minute availability.
For your info, premier on the same day was £1800
May be its helpful for you to know - jet airways uses travel consolidator and these consolidators publishes 'special fares' to cross sell via other ticketing mechanisms. jet uses dnatas agents screens at heathrow ticketing desk and this will only show up if they have last minute availability.
For your info, premier on the same day was £1800
Sep 7, 2013, 4:19 pm
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Onlysuites and keyser,
May be its helpful for you to know - jet airways uses travel consolidator and these consolidators publishes 'special fares' to cross sell via other ticketing mechanisms. jet uses dnatas agents screens at heathrow ticketing desk and this will only show up if they have last minute availability.
For your info, premier on the same day was £1800
May be its helpful for you to know - jet airways uses travel consolidator and these consolidators publishes 'special fares' to cross sell via other ticketing mechanisms. jet uses dnatas agents screens at heathrow ticketing desk and this will only show up if they have last minute availability.
For your info, premier on the same day was £1800
But good to know its possible.
Sep 10, 2013, 2:08 am
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Sep 10, 2013, 4:44 am
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Sep 13, 2013, 4:47 am
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Ok, onlysuites, for your info - no airline will ever 'stop' selling upgrades on the day of flight. You may have been unlucky on that day becuase of the load factor they were on J and F.
In economics, there is a term called 'Fixed Costs', and to recover the same for J and F, the only way is 'offer' it and get it from customers.
Most airlines prefer 'cash' than miles/points because it adds/offsets their operational revenue/cost.
I will post what happened on my return BOM-LHR soon...
In economics, there is a term called 'Fixed Costs', and to recover the same for J and F, the only way is 'offer' it and get it from customers.
Most airlines prefer 'cash' than miles/points because it adds/offsets their operational revenue/cost.
I will post what happened on my return BOM-LHR soon...
Sep 13, 2013, 4:54 am
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(That's why he is quite surprised that they offered the upsell.)
However, the OP might have simply paid the fare difference, and then not a discounted upgrade option at all.
We would have to know the fare basis of the underlying ticket and whether the OP also got miles/credit for the premium cabin.
Sep 13, 2013, 5:16 am
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Note that onlysuites flies on Jet regularly ex-LHR - or, at least *used to fly* regularly, so he is quite familiar with the procedures there...
(That's why he is quite surprised that they offered the upsell.)
However, the OP might have simply paid the fare difference, and then not a discounted upgrade option at all.
We would have to know the fare basis of the underlying ticket and whether the OP also got miles/credit for the premium cabin.
(That's why he is quite surprised that they offered the upsell.)
However, the OP might have simply paid the fare difference, and then not a discounted upgrade option at all.
We would have to know the fare basis of the underlying ticket and whether the OP also got miles/credit for the premium cabin.
I repeat, i.e for the third time that I did not pay the 'fare difference'.
I simply paid the 'upsell'. Upsell fare is independent of the original fare class of booking when someone purchases the ticket. That is the fare available in case the load factor in J or F going below a point on the day of flight. They(Jet) can also promote upsell last minute if they wish to (normally few hours before flight ticketing gets closed). Hope you get it and understand this time at least.
Sep 13, 2013, 5:19 am
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Welcome to the changing world, SuperFlyBoy.
I repeat, i.e for the third time that I did not pay the 'fare difference'.
I simply paid the 'upsell'. Upsell fare is independent of the original fare class of booking when you purchased the ticket. That is the fare available in case the load factor in J or F going below a point. They(Jet) can promote upsell during last minute if they wish to. Hope you get it and understand this time at least.
I repeat, i.e for the third time that I did not pay the 'fare difference'.
I simply paid the 'upsell'. Upsell fare is independent of the original fare class of booking when you purchased the ticket. That is the fare available in case the load factor in J or F going below a point. They(Jet) can promote upsell during last minute if they wish to. Hope you get it and understand this time at least.
Congrats anyway and let's see how often they keep doing this - would be interested...
Did you bank the miles to any particular program, and if so, what did post there?
Sep 13, 2013, 5:21 am
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Sep 13, 2013, 5:30 am
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When I am travelling alone on cheap Y fare - I alwys look for upgrade at the airport ticketing desk. That always worked 8 of 10 times with EK, BA and glad it worked first time with JET too.
Sep 13, 2013, 5:31 am
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Sep 13, 2013, 5:31 am
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