Originally Posted by mrboh
What is the actual QF policy regarding the number of seats available for upgrade awards? If the flight shows J8 then can (potentially) eight people be successful with their upgrade request, or does it depend on a cheaper business allocation (say D or I)? If the former, presumably even NBs can snag upgrades with judicious use of something like KVS or ExpertFlyer.
J8 means that only 8 seats are available for
purchase. QF may well fly them empty. They are not going to give the market place the impression that they will give away seats or let WHY passengers know that it is easy to upgrade. They wouldn't get people to pay for them if this was the case.
As for an actual policy for seat availability, QF knows that seats can sell at several hours before the flight so they will (always?) leave empty seats to cater for those who are paying top dollar for them. It's a dark science and QF certainly won't tell you how they work it out!