Originally Posted by
Caterpillar2025
Any suggestions for maximizing my chances of getting an eupgrade?
I am going to Tokyo from Toronto on a Thursday in November 2025. I am a 25K member with 2 co branded credit cards. 2 pax. I could get latitude economy or premium economy and pay cash. I would prefer to go on the direct flight from Toronto to Haneda. At this time I’ve noticed there are a lot of open seats on this Thursday and quite a few Thursdays from now until that day in November 2025 and the Thursday Haneda business class tickets are often amongst the cheapest for a lot of the upcoming Thursdays.
My options are:
1. AC 1 - Toronto to Haneda - Latitude Economy
2. AC 9 - Toronto to Narita - Latitude Economy
3. AC 3 - Toronto to Vancouver to Narita - could do Flexible premium economy or Latitude Economy
Any help would be so much appreciated!
I think I've already said this in the reddit post, but I agree with Wigg and RatherBeInYOW: PE (Flex if possible) is the best and possibly the only shot at the eUpgrade.
Personally as a fellow 25K, I've had mixed success: I've pre-cleared about 60% of my flights, but none of the others (all on PE) cleared at the gate. PE did put me close to the top and gave me a chance, but would've had no chance with Latitude.
And if one of the other flights have R space, you can always change to Latitude on that flight and pre-clear.