Originally Posted by martinplas
I am a Co PLat and have booked a NW/KLM metal flight on July 15th ,from AMS to NBO and return on the 24th July on KLM codeshare with Kenya Air. The ticket is a coach M fare.Do any of you NW flyertalkers have any tricks or knowledge on how to upgrade this ticket . KLM never seems to make any D bucket upgrades to Co for this route and I am in the dark about upgrade certs or if they even exist. Everytime I talk to someone at KLM /NW or Co I keep hearing no chance. There are plenty of buiz seats left ,( the coach tickets were $1300.00 each and buizness around $3800.00 each so i dont want to fork over the money to upgrade). My Z Buis ticket IAH to AMS to Iah on CO was $1600.00 on the summer sale, so $3800.00 seems crazy to me. Am I SOL? or do you have any info that would help.
Do they do battlefield uogrades on KLM? I have been fanatasizing about bribing the KLM ticket agent or something at Schipol to get us upgraded. Help !!!!
I am sure you will get some good input from the members of our board. I mostly fly NW metal domestic. But from reading previous posts, I am guessing that your best bet will be to position yourself to get an "Op Up" or operational upgrade, which is when NW/KLM frees up coach seats by upgrading Elites into WBC. One tactic is to book your coach seat on a flight that is typically over-sold. You may want to check on the history of your flight (go off of time of month, day of week, and time) and to the statictics (you can use this site
http://www.flyaow.com/classcwt.htm to check).
I would also recommend putting yourself on the volunteer list for an Op Up once you get to the gate for each flight.
Good luck & happy flying!
-A