Originally Posted by
tezzer
The days of mere golds getting op-upped seem to be over. Out of my last 6 sectors, zero, compared (a couple of years ago and before) when I had something like a 60% success rate.
Since the introduction of platinum, it's dried up completely, I had hoped for one this week on my second sector, DXB-KUL, as I'd received the would I like to spend some miles on an upgrade, AND had no seat allocation at check in, but no, still in J, on an old 777 with very worn out interior, old ICE and people complaining everywhere about things not working.
Without wanting to take the thread too OT - I assume you received an upgrade email; perhaps EK revenue managers have finally learnt that no one who was Gold or Platinum ever paid cash for the upgrade offers and ended up getting upgraded anyway and so have targeted those offers at people who they have research of actually spending cash on them
(damn you big data!)