Airport Upgrade Promotions 2019
This thread is a continuation of the 2018 thread on AUPs to be found here.
Airport Upgrades (AUP) promotion 2018 thread
Note that this different to POUGs, which are Proactive Upgrades offered in Manage My Booking on BA.com or the BA App, which are often available well before travel.
If you have been offered or requested an airport upgrade promoted fare, please share the details here, and ideally upda the wiki if you can. If you have less than 50 posts someone else will need to do it, but good citizenship is always good. If you are adding a new entry, feel free to delete any very old information. As a guideline anything over a year if there are many other data points, two years if there is only a few. For the record, post 2 has a copy of the Wiki as of 1 January 2019.
Key points
- AUPs are offered on BA metal only, plus wet leases such as via Titan or Eastern
- AUPs are only offered on the day of travel, there is no point asking beforehand.
- Basic (HBO) fares can have AUPs but the rate is usually higher than other tickets.
- AUPs grant immediate access to lounges, Fast Track, higher Priority Boarding and additional baggage for the immediately upcoming set of flights, but not for the return leg as well.
- They are subject to availability but don't be shy to ask, it's very little work for an agent to quote the fare (it's on the top of their screen) and not much more work to do the upgrade
- AUPs are now widely available at check-in desks throughout the network - you just need FLY to be in operation
- AUPs are not available at LCY departures (apparently due to the the lack of a lounge and Fast Track)
- AUPs do give additional Tier Points and Avios, so long as the underlying ticket is a revenue ticket. That includes revenue tickets where Avios were use to part pay.
- AUPs are available to all passengers and most fare types, the key exception are non public fares, such as bulk fare
- Some check-in agents haven't been trained in how to do AUPs - there isn't a lot you can do about this at smaller locations
- A few locations don't use FLY, or rather use a sub-set of it (e.g. DBV, EGC).
- AUPs can be done in BA operated lounges and the First Wings at LHR T5 and JFK T7 - again subject to the agent having had the relevant training.