Originally Posted by
MasterGeek
Does that also work if I have a business class roundtrip award but all the legs from departure to first stopover are in economy ?
eg: YUL-YYZ-FRA in AC coach; stopover for a few days; FRA-IST in TK business;....
Do I get to be put on waitlist for Business for the YUL-YYZ-FRA segments ?
Yes, but it's lower priority.
Originally Posted by
CanuckFlyHigh
i would also suggest you check for reward tickets the few weeks leading up to your flight. Much better to pay the $90 change fee, vs risking it at the gate.
Agreed.
Originally Posted by
lardiop
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be a free change? I seem to remember doing the same thing on a couple of J awards with Y segments.
Originally Posted by
philelite
Yes, it's a free change if J reward space opens up (aka "I" booking space)
Just call and they will upgrade you for free
It's free if "I" opens up on the flight you're already confirmed on. But it's probably worth a $90/$75/whatever it is now/$150 change fee if you find "I" on a different flight.
Originally Posted by
pitz
Its not an upgrade. Its merely being unable to confirm in space, and being on a waitlist for the space. Priority is actually very high -- just below revenue confirmed tickets, award confirmed tickets, confirmed upgraders (ie: from R space), LMU buyers and deadheading captains.
The key is to make sure that you're not processed as an 'upgrade', but rather, are put on the waitlist for the space. If there's space, you'll get it in preference to a SE without a confirmed upgrade, even if they hold a full-Y (ie: Latitude) ticket.
Stranger has already covered most of what I want to say, but for the record, there's only one onload list, so you're going on the same list.
The big difference in this case compared to most of the times you mention this is that OP is confirmed in PY, and
that is the reason they'd be above a full-Y SE.