I have just had a bit of strange situation coming up. I bought an N coded economy ticket DXB - FCO. Unfortunately my DXB - Doha flight was cancelled due to the crash. I was reissued a ticket departing AUH instead but I didn't realize that the fare was downgraded to W.
My plan was to upgrade using the 35 per cent discount currently available as the FCO leg is the crappy Dreamliner Y class. Of course I only find out of the code change at the lounge when requesting the upgrade and told that W fares don't qualify for upgrades.
So throught no fault of my own I miss the opportunity to upgrade myself and will earn fewer miles for the flight too.
Do I have an argument at least to earn the correct amount of miles for the doh - Fco leg?