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Old Jan 20, 2023 | 10:22 pm
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nichojo
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Originally Posted by garykung
If you are truly looking for your chance if your upgrade can be cleared or not, then you are better suit in Y instead.
If that was meant as an insult, it was a pretty poor one as I don’t even fully grasp what you’re saying.

Originally Posted by BuBu4
1/29 is still pretty early. they likely will call you a couple days before departure if there are seats available.
Usually there isnt seats available at the airport, but if you really want to take a chance, show up at start at check in and ask again.

based on past loads though, J class is always full.
Thanks, that is helpful.

Originally Posted by hlee628
Do you have any status with BR? Since I became a Diamond member (about 5 years ago) I have never missed a requested upgrade. Sometimes they make you sweat it out until the day before the flight, but it eventually works out. This is in comparison to my time as a Gold member, where I only cleared about 75% of requested upgrades.
Helpful as well. No status. Ironically, I am Qantas Platinum and Krisflyer Gold but BR wouldn’t match, even to silver, and even though I have requisite mileage when you look at past years travel on those combined with what I’ve already done with them.

An interesting data point: we know that EVA ML award inventory is separate than EVA ML upgrade inventory, but what is interesting is that there is an award seat on this flight in J, but the upgrade still hasn’t cleared. An outright redemption is only 15k more than the upgrade cost, so it’s quite surprising to me they would want to try to sell this before clearing their own members.

Even though I (apparently) belong in Y, I’ll keep hoping for the best!
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