Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
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But if the flight was purchased with AA/AS miles you cannot do that.
You cannot use QF ff points to upgrade a flight paid for with ff miles from another ffp
Or did you pay cash for SFO-MEL?
Anyway you would be well down list of (QF) people wanting to use QF points for an upgrade.
Correct.
And for the second bolding, it's important to note that Qantas upgrades are NOT confirmed at the time of 'purchase'. All it entitles you to is a request to upgrade, and requests are processed by status. Platinums first, going down to non-status. A platinum requesting an upgrade 14 days prior to departure would have their request processed before a non-status member who'd requested an upgrade 365 days before departure.
(Basically, without top status in the Qantas programme you should always expect to travel in the cabin you originally booked.)