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May 16, 2014, 11:36 am
#271
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: YEG
Programs: AC: Ac*A, , Nexus: Expired
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May 16, 2014, 11:39 am
#272
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: YEG
Programs: AC: Ac*A, , Nexus: Expired
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Another question for Ben on upgrades.
Why are passengers on the same PNR not processed together at the gate? I'm travelling with my wife today and I'm told that my chances look good but hers are iffy as there are a couple of E50's in front of her. I'm SE travelling on the same PNR and we have the same last name.
Why are passengers on the same PNR not processed together at the gate? I'm travelling with my wife today and I'm told that my chances look good but hers are iffy as there are a couple of E50's in front of her. I'm SE travelling on the same PNR and we have the same last name.
May 16, 2014, 11:45 am
#273
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Ottawa
Programs: AC, SPG, HH +others
Posts: 389
If you are on the Same PNR you should be upgraded at the same time. This JUST happened to me FRA-YYC. I am SE and my wife is no status. When we got to FRA I went to the customer service desk as asked where we ere on the List. J3 I was number 1 and she was number 2 with 3 other SE behind us...
May 16, 2014, 11:58 am
#274
Join Date: May 2012
Location: YOW
Programs: UA*1K, Marriott Titanium (LTP), Hilton Gold, Hertz PC
Posts: 1,665
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...l#post14462404
May 16, 2014, 12:10 pm
#275
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: YEG
Programs: AC: Ac*A, , Nexus: Expired
Posts: 1,489
Hope everything else works!
May 16, 2014, 12:46 pm
#276
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: YOW
Programs: AC SE, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 395
May 16, 2014, 1:06 pm
#277
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Programs: Aeroplan 75K, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,374
I've had that happen before. Same PNR, I got upgraded, my 10 year-old niece did not! Had to give up my upgrade as we couldn't be split apart between different cabins and business class was otherwise full.
May 16, 2014, 1:08 pm
#278
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: YVR
Programs: AC*SE MM, Marriott Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 4,604
Priority check-in also needs to be addressed, with the recent influx of Aeroplan card holders entitled to use it.
May 16, 2014, 1:29 pm
#279
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: YVR
Programs: ACSEMM QRGold SPGLifetimePlat FairmontPlat HyattD AMEXCenturion SerenaPlat TalkBoard Founding Member
Posts: 8,963
If you are on the Same PNR you should be upgraded at the same time. This JUST happened to me FRA-YYC. I am SE and my wife is no status. When we got to FRA I went to the customer service desk as asked where we ere on the List. J3 I was number 1 and she was number 2 with 3 other SE behind us...
Once I watched a GA pull up the rule on her terminal showing that at the gate each individuals status is what mattered....though I did not see the screen.
May 16, 2014, 1:31 pm
#280
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: YVR
Programs: ACSEMM QRGold SPGLifetimePlat FairmontPlat HyattD AMEXCenturion SerenaPlat TalkBoard Founding Member
Posts: 8,963
Zoned boarding has been discussed many times on this forum, and AC did some trials last year. If they eliminated E35K and some credit card holders for priority boarding, we could probably keep the status quo without moving to zoned boarding.
Priority check-in also needs to be addressed, with the recent influx of Aeroplan card holders entitled to use it.
Priority check-in also needs to be addressed, with the recent influx of Aeroplan card holders entitled to use it.
May 16, 2014, 1:37 pm
#281
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: YVR
Programs: AC*SE MM, Marriott Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 4,604
We came very close to not offering any differentiated product at all (seat pitch options only)
Premium rouge is different to mainline J - because we are selling an integrated network and support GDS and eventually code-share the positioning of Premium rouge seems to sometimes get confused as mainline J. We are working on ways to address this and we are also looking at improved pricing options for Premium rouge as well.
Premium rouge is different to mainline J - because we are selling an integrated network and support GDS and eventually code-share the positioning of Premium rouge seems to sometimes get confused as mainline J. We are working on ways to address this and we are also looking at improved pricing options for Premium rouge as well.
Not taking SE meal orders first, FAs disappearing after meal service, not offering coffee/water, not restricting the front bathroom to the J cabin etc. - all these things add up.
I'll be flying out YVR-SFO in late June on mainline and then returning on July 1st on the very first rouge flight that day. Should be interesting.
May 16, 2014, 2:08 pm
#282
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Posts: 12,069
May 16, 2014, 2:21 pm
#283
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Posts: 12,069
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YYZBGI was a route that could have gone either way (market yields). Initially we did not have the ability to fly a mainline widebody aircraft this year during the peak winter and having the ability to fly a rouge 767 was a big factor in our initial decision to transfer this route to rouge. Now with a firm plan to refurbish the 777s and an updated 787 delivery plan we became more comfortable with our ability to continue to make available a mainline 777/333/763 to fly this route during winter. Therefore you can expect this route to operate as mainline on a year-round basis from October of this year.
I hope that helps.
YYZBGI was a route that could have gone either way (market yields). Initially we did not have the ability to fly a mainline widebody aircraft this year during the peak winter and having the ability to fly a rouge 767 was a big factor in our initial decision to transfer this route to rouge. Now with a firm plan to refurbish the 777s and an updated 787 delivery plan we became more comfortable with our ability to continue to make available a mainline 777/333/763 to fly this route during winter. Therefore you can expect this route to operate as mainline on a year-round basis from October of this year.
I hope that helps.
777/330/763 mainline aircraft will bring big smiles to those folks at BTA. I had lunch with a former member of BTA and I know they lobbied hard to maintain mainline service. Their prayers are answered.
Will be booking BGI soon.