I purchased this N booking code ticket June 23 to fly June 30 and as price went up from 1500 to 1750 to 2270 went for eco ticket at 780 euro.
I already hold a biz booking code I ticket for a sept/oct trip, thus all is fine there.

I am halfway in the trip so it's too late to upgrade the ticket.
Load factor was low on both sectors; had 3 seats on A380, fantastic aircraft way better than the good old B747, also had 3 seats on B787, but what a lousy aircraft, people in front reclined their seats and as a result you get the screen in your face, flitter thin hard seats etc.

Load factor return segment is very low but all B787, final destination different from departure city, easy to get 3 seats on both segments, but paid the 640 euro this morning to upgrade last segment, thus will have Al Mourjan access in Doha. total cost will near the 1500 euro but only 1 segement in J

In the mean time I got silver status halfway this trip and will reach gold after next trip.

I will make sure a similar situation not to repeat itself and continue to say that 640 euro for a one segment upgrade is way to much.