Tango Alpha

This must be translate error. Swedish text says "booking classes C,D,Z,I,R,N are exempted".

raldat

Thanks Swifty, like I said, I shall report but here is hoping.

Fare avaialbility for my China flight in a few weeks looks like this (from EF)

C9 D9 Z0 R0 J0 Y9 S9 B5 P0 A0 E0 M0 H0 Q0 V0 W0 U0 K0 L0 T0 O0 G0 N0

Based on this and given Go seems sold out while Plus and Bus are open, it will be hard to tell if it is a new program upgrade or an opup though.

My recent experience is that opups are not uncommon in the above circumstances. I have had a few in the last 6 months (both as a gold and now as a diamond), mainly from Go to Plus but one from Plus to Bus and one from Go to Plus at checkin then to Bus at the gate.

teom66

He is 13 and "Adult" when it comes to the ticket - so no problem there.

I havent experienced anything else than this been a rumour at the moment - so i doubt it is "a fully automated process in place". If it was then I would have gotten an automatic upgrade on some of my 3 trips LH over the last 8 weeks.

I hope it is coming at one point though. Until then; I guess upgrading with points at the gate is the best way

fassy

as on businessclass.se some people report they got a mail confirming their courtesy upgrade I guess it is partly there, i.E. it is a test balloon and random customers are selected for this?

It certainly did not work for me the last weeks either.

UltraRant

Looks promising.

When will this become effective?

raldat

So I can now confirm that this works. Just received an email with an upgrade from go to plus for my flight to Shanghai tonight. According to EF, was full with plus and C wide open. Will probably try for a points upgrade at checkin now. Was planning to anyhow, but it just got 15k points cheaper.

LHRff

I'm on SK901 tomorrow and my two connecting flights LHR>ARN>CPH were both upgraded via Optiontown, it wasn't available on SK901, so I applied for a points upgrade and yesterday I received this e-mail:
Never had that before, could that be a new procedure related to the courtesy-upgrades? Would anyone with EF access be kind enough to share the current load for SK901 on Aug 31 so I have a better idea about my chances for an upgrade?

Thanks.

fassy

Nothing new and not related to the courtesy upgrades. I had confirmed point upgrades refused dozen of times over the last years with exactly the same mail. And every single time I was able to get an upgrade at check-in.

LHRff

Thinking about it, maybe all of my previous requests for point upgrades have been successful. I'll try my luck tomorrow at check-in.

None of my previous intercontinental SK flights have been courtesy-upgraded, so was hoping for one this time. Maybe it's because it's on LN-RKP.

Thanks.

Update:
I didn't receive any notification, but I was just upgraded from Go to Business. Could be a courtesy-upgrade, could be an OPUP, who knows...

SecretGuy

Just received an email from SAS with the courtesy upgrade message from Go to Plus on CPH-IAD tomorrow for me and my wife (I'm diamond, wife is gold). Flight does not seem to be full, so very positive change if SAS keep it up!

FlyingMoose

I applied for a courtesy upgrade for my wife on a trip to HKG later this month on the new route, she's booked in paid non-flex Plus. Usually we put all options to use, OT/advance point upgrade/airport upgrade on time of departure. As a test we'll not be doing the first two and use point upgrade at the airport as a fallback if there is availability.

Will be interesting to see the results.

raldat

Assume you mean you applied for a points upgrade? You can't apply for a courtesy upgrade as far as I know.

As my my trip report, as previously mentioned, I was upgraded on the outbound trip. Recieved this mail.

You’ve been upgraded to SAS Plus!

We know that you spend a lot of time onboard our aircraft, and we appreciate it very much! To show you just how much, we’re offering you an upgrade to SAS Plus when you travel from Copenhagen to Shanghai 29th August. This means that you will enjoy extra benefits that make your trip even more comfortable (read more here). The offer applies to you and your traveling companion in the same booking!



Best wishes,
SAS

P.S. The EuroBonus points that you earn on this trip will be based on your original booking, not on the upgrade. Your upgrade will give you access to our lounges and Fast Track, but not ticket flexibility (i.e. free re-booking/cancellation).

On the way back, I applied for a confirmed points upgrade and was knocked back 24 hours out despite Plus being wide open. I was given a points upgrade at checkin and there were a total of 6 people in Plus. I really can't understand why SAS offer confirmed upgrades if they are going to just deny them all the time only to give them anyhow at checkin. I know they want to manage loads to keep revenue opportunities available but this one was so wide open it is incomprehensible,

fassy

The explanation I received was: For the confirmed point upgrade to clear one of two things need to be in place:

a) Available award seat in the new class (which of course is "NEVER" in Plus)
b) The original booking class needs to be overbooked or close to fully booked.

raldat

Thanks Fassy,

I never knew that. Come to think of it, I have probably only ever had confirmed upgrades pass in C not plus.

regards
Darren

pobbop

Had an email about 16 hours before the Monday flight. Looking at the seat map in the mobile app, Plus and C are half-empty.