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Surface Interval
1) Can you upgrade from coach-biz with km's if you are not elite?
2) What is the approximate number of km's needed to upgrade from SCL-IPC-SCL?
3) Is it at all reasonable to expect/hope that an upgrade will be available the last week in Dec '15?
1) It used to be yes, but this changed in 2012 and now the answer is
no. The link is broken but the proper link to the English site is
this one.
2) 34 000 km (round trip)
3) eh... nope. Upgrade availability is supposed to correspond with award business availability in the lowest-km-price (U class, the one that corresponds to the kms amount on the table).
You might find this on rare occasions (but I agree, low expectations and feel lucky if you find something)... I did see availability for the award-upgrade last week on a LIM-SCL for July (but we just decided to just redeem directly on J for 70 000 km). Of course LIM-SCL has more flights and is "easier" than SCL-IPC... In any case, upgrades-with-kms can only be requested 6 months or less before the flight.