Upgrade given: Y - J
Upgrade location: Check-in
Route: SEZ to DXB
Flight number: EK 708
Type of ticket: Saver
Date of travel: 13/04/2014
Tier status: Two of us were upgraded - me a Plat and wife a Gold
Tier miles: ~ Me - 1,200 (reset to zero on 31st March 2014 - had requalified for Plat at that point) Wife - 53,000 approx
Skywards miles balance: ~ me - just under 1.1 million - wife about 94,000
Number of pax on the same PNR: 2 (oddly enough we started out on one PNR along with with our two kids and our two nannies all of whom are blue but I noticed through MMB that a couple of days before the return flight we had been split off from that PNR and were now on our own PNR)
First letter of your surname: T - as stated in outbound op up report which appears earlier in this thread my wife is B and is first named on the PNR as a result - tier status means nothing on a PNR orderwise so I suspect Plats on PNR with non plats will effectively be ranked based on the tier of the one on the PNR with surname that appears highest in alphabet - just my theory which was further reinforced on board when the Purser introduced herself to my wife but totally ignored me, this was probably a coincidence but ...