Originally Posted by
YOWgary
Upgrading mixed-cabin awards
- If your whole one-way bound is booked entirely on partner metal, the old rules still apply to upgrading mixed-cabin awards: if I-space opens up, an Aeroplan phone agent can move you up to business. As before, there may be additional taxes and fees; for example, a flight out of LHR or CDG is taxed based on cabin class, so upgrading those segments will likely cost you extra taxes, but on fixed-price, all-partner awards, no additional points will be charged. If the one-way bound includes any AC metal, and therefore has pro-rated pricing, then upgrading a partner segment *may* re-price the whole bound.
- Any mixed-cabin segment on AC metal is eligible for eUpgrade just like an Economy or PE flight booked as an award on its own. I asked if there are specific rules about which exact fare type mixed-cabin awards will book into, and it sounds like they won’t set long-term policy on that until they have more data on "booking volumes and behaviours”, so for now mixed-class segments are assigned fare classes (and presumably priced) based on availability in each case.
- If you book a mixed-class award, you will no longer be waitlisted for upgrade at the gate on the mixed segment. Unless you eUpgrade, the class on your boarding pass is the class you’ll sit in.
Wondering if anyone can answer my question about upgrading mixed cabin awards and specifically about repricing "bounds". If I book a stop-over, are the segments before and after a stop-over considered separate bounds? Or is the entire booking considered one bound? So if I change a flight before the stopover, it won't reprice the flights after the stopover?
Specifically, I am wondering if anyone can advise/confirm on this situation:
I've booked the following Business Class - Flexible Reward because it's hard to find J Award space on both segments of the trip I want to do, so I ended up booking mixed cabin with the hopes of swapping the Y portions for J if something becomes available. For context, the flights are as follows:
BKK-SIN - SQ Economy Class (X)
SIN-LHR - SQ Economy Class (X)
Stopover in LHR
LHR-YUL - AC Business Class (I)
YUL-YOW - AC Economy Class (Y)
If J award space shows up for the BKK-LHR leg, can I call AC to swap for no cost? My main concern is whether changing the BKK-LHR leg would reprice the LHR-YOW leg. The LHR-YUL leg is I-Class, so I assume it wouldn't reprice? But not sure about the YUL-YOW leg and whether that would impact pricing if changes are made to the BKK-LHR leg.
Thanks!