Originally Posted by
mattoo
Thanks very much for the information and detailed reply. I think our best bet is for the return leg so will try at checkin and on board. I agree, they’d much rather try for cash for those seats so it makes sense not to offer mileage upgrades unless plenty are vacant.
Something to bear in mind for future fights is that J to F upgrades on the DXB/LGW routing are significantly easier to get than on the LHR flights. I have been successful twice this year and third time I was proactively offered a miles upgrade when entering the A J lounge at DXB. Was not very flush on miles at that time and was happy with my 23K seat so declined the ‘offer’ (to stress, this was not an op-up). So if you don’t have a good reason to fly to LHR, consider LGW instead.