Originally Posted by
insomniac7
"At the moment, there are no Business Class upgrade award seats available
from Hong Kong to Singapore and between Hong Kong and Vancouver on your
preferred travel dates. If we can confirm any seats by 22 June 2016 we
will definitely let you know, otherwise, your upgrade flights will be
automatically cancelled"
That's what he said. He knows that SIN-HKG is infact available. So I don't think I misinterpret the meaning. It will be canceled if the SET (the way he put it) is not confirmed. Which is all or nothing.
Maybe you are right about the mixed class. But, Not all sectors have PEY.
I did reply their last email said that I'm willing to do a one-way upgrade as they suggested. We'll see what happens next. Fingers crossed ��
Okay, well something is going wrong here and I think it is one of two things:
1.) You can absolutely ticket awards sector by sector. This is just a fact. We're not making it up! So either he is grossly mistaken and you are not correcting him, OR there is something related to #2 below. Btw, what he's saying is your award waitlist will be cancelled. Because otherwise your statement doesn't make sense...by your own reckoning, you don't have any confirmed upgrades. Hence, how can there be anything for him to cancel? What I think he's saying is your
waitlist to upgrade will be cancelled. Now, if I have misconstrued what you're saying, and instead some sector
is confirmed for the upgrade, then ticket it!. And you need to
issue the ticket by that deadline or it will be cancelled.
2.) There could be something weird about a mixed class upgrade...technically Y-J and PEY-J are two different things. Maybe there is something with tying to the two segments together. Maybe they will indeed permit a "mixed class booking" and price it lower
if all 4 sectors clear, which sounds like a very low chance.
3.)
I am nearly certain there is nothing preventing you from trying for a SIN-HKG round-trip, and a HKG-YVR round-trip separately as upgrades. Have you tried asking the agent "Dear Mr. MPC, if I only want to upgrade the HKG-SIN segments, how can I do that?" And what has his response been? If #2 is the issue (ie, they will permit a mixed-itinerary upgrade in this situation but require all the segments to clear beforehand), this solution will almost certain rectify the problem and allow you to upgrade one of the segments.
I still think the thing making this hairier than usual is the fact you are on a Y ticket SIN-HKG and PEY ticket HKG-YVR.