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Aug 13, 2007 | 12:44 am

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Krakajax

Join Date: May 2007

Posts: 361

Quote:

Originally Posted by PCMarch

Called CO to enquire about the O inventory.. which was O; engaged in a conversation wihich basically went.. you accepted 2 economy legs for this booking.. tough. Even if there are Business class seats available, it's highly unlikely you'll have any chance of getting them. In any event, they need to be assigned before you arrive at the airport, so if O seats open up after the first leg, you are not able to secure them.
Apart from the fact that we didn't accept economy- it was accepted for us by the agent and appeared on the booking after the fact, it seems ludicrous that if there are empty business class seats we're not entitled to them with some sort of priority.

Amex "paying for" miles doesnt cut mustard. I know alot of people who have hundreds of thousands of miles BUT absolutely ZERO Status and they too get upset when they attempt to get upgrades and cant. Also alot of award tickets CANNOT be upgraded.

Unless you have STATUS those will often be sold off to last minute brokers/consolidators before they'd do a non-revenue giveaway, so
I doubt you'll even be eligible to be waitlisted (if allowed) for the O seats supposedly "open."

All the airlines have tighten their belts with non-revenue giveaways unless
you have SUPER STATUS like Gold or Platinum Elite.

As for alternate to the CO CDG flight agent would have booked you on it IF it was open for AWARD travel before putting you on via partner AF.

Nevertheless good luck.