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Old Oct 24, 2019 | 7:03 am
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woodenshoe101
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Originally Posted by smartytravel
That's really strange. Did you email Delta helpdesk to say that you upgraded, and that your boarding pass shows this was class C and that it should be receiving bonus miles, according to the chart on the website?
Any seat in Biz shows on a KL boarding pass as "C". This does not mean it is booked in a C fare bucket. They do the same in coach. All boarding passes show Y, even if you bought a heavily discounted fare. What matters is what the receipt says, and likely it is still a coach fare with an upgrade designation.

For the OP, the KLM screenshot shows a 074 number but it is not a ticket number, just an electronic receipt number, otherwise it would have shown on the boarding pass (boarding pass still has 006 as someone else noticed) So the amount paid was a seat fee, not a buy-up to an actual J fare and unfortunately not eligible for extra MQM

DL for a while had issues with domestically selling FC GAP fares as coach with instant upgrades and then refusing MQM bonus, even though it was nearly impossible to tell at booking if a fare was actual F or "coach+". That seems to now be all in the past with bucket realignments to CDIZ.
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