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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 2:56 pm
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Originally Posted by Rome77
I'm shortly flying longhaul in WT. Today I noticed a good cash upgrade offer to WT+ when managing my booking online. I also see that there are CW seats available for Avios redemption on the same flight. By now it's probably clear that my question is going to be similar to the OP - is it possible to first upgrade from WT to WT+ with cash on ba.com and subsequently do an Avios upgrade from WT+ to CW? My original WT ticket is in selling class O by the way.
The answer is exactly the same:-
Originally Posted by travellingblade
If you accept the pro-active upgrade in MMB you will be booked in to the "P" fare code which is normally used for WT+ redemptions but is also used for pro-active upgrade sale fares. You cannot MFU a fare in this bucket to J.
So it all depends on whether you're being offered the special offer fixed price upgrade (which IME is always marked as a special offer), or whether you're seeing the normal fare rules (fare difference plus change fee) upgrade cost. If it's the latter, then you can MFU thereafter. If it's a special offer upgrade, you can't MFU thereafter.
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