Originally Posted by
25milesfromhome
I'll be doing the opposite. I leave LAX at 11:50 p.m. on the night before my birthday. I figure I'll cross the dateline sometime around 9 hours later for a very short b'day. I'm also not imagining any upgrades but I got an op-up last year on a flight 3 or 4 days before my birthday.
Alas, that's great on the upgrade, but my suspicion is that it had nothing to do with your special day. Probably more likely it was CX being a good citizen to an OW Emerald during standard op-up procedures.
I've flown CX or KA on the day before or after my birthday 3/4 of those days in the last 2 years, and did not get the upgrade even as a CX DM...and I know at least one of those flights F had only ONE pax! (I was booked in J I think going to JFK). The only time I actually got the upgrade was last year on my actual birthday itself.