Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
PHL-CDG is down to J2 and AMS-DFW is J3, so on the surface your chances don't look great. That said, a Saturday flight on a holiday weekend isn't likely to have lots of last minute paid business travel, so I wouldn't give up yet.
For the return, AMS-PHL is C4, so if you wanted to switch you could confirm the upgrades immediately. Depending on fares you could possibly downgrade that from PE to normal economy to offset some/all of the change fee.
Thanks - we did actually change AMS-DFW-ORD to AMS-PHL-ORD. With the downgrade from PE to Y, the fare dropped $177 per person. Our tickets had a $275 change fee so the net is it cost us $98 per person to upgrade to J. Not too bad at all! Looked at trying to get on ORD-DFW-CDG as some of the EF listings show C3 on the DFW-CDG flights but EXP Desk says no, EF is wrong. Looks like PHL-CDG just went to J1 so don't think it will happen tomorrow - so we'll be in PE on that leg.