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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 4:00 pm
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Originally Posted by BA304
It will only happen if the flight is overbooked in Y/PE in which case you should be near the top of the list for upgrades.

In my fairly limited expreience of flying to HKG it has been pretty full in J anyway.
Yep VS will only generally upgrade if they need to and IF they need to they have an algorithm of who to upgrade depending on status and fare bucket

They are quite stingy (yay) on giving free upgrades just because there is space available - was one on a flight that was full in Y and PE but only 1/3rd full in UC and there were no free upgrades.

On VS the general rule is that to be be in UC is to pay to be in UC
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