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Upgrades on *A
If your itinerary begins on AC but connects w/ *A partner does and upgrade carry through to that portion of your trip?
Ex.) AC to Frankfurt - Connects to LH to Bangalore - would an upgrade cert. put my in Business all the way to Bangalore or just to Frankfurt? Thanks in advance... |
No joy
From my experience, just to FRA. You need a separate upgrade cert for any continuing flights. Alliance upgrades are much more difficult to use then they used to be. Good luck!
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IIRC, you want to make sure that your Canada-FRA segment is on AC metal. If it is an AC codeshare on LH metal, then your upgrade cert won't work.
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Originally Posted by 7Continents
(Post 8676841)
From my experience, just to FRA. You need a separate upgrade cert for any continuing flights. Alliance upgrades are much more difficult to use then they used to be. Good luck!
You can only upgrade on AC-operated flights, period. No certs for other airlines, and as far as I can remember, it always was like that. No harder or easier than it used to be. Only opups. Which may be getting harder to get, but still occasionally occur. Mostly status-based and unrelated to upgrade status of the first leg. |
Originally Posted by Stranger
(Post 8676892)
No certs for other airlines, and as far as I can remember, it always was like that. No harder or easier than it used to be. I believe that AC is also the ONLY carrier left in STAR not offering upgrades... hence the op is probably confused as if he was with any other STAR carrier he would be eligible to do this. |
Originally Posted by TRAVELSIG
(Post 8677963)
Hi Stranger, back in the 90s, the upgrade certs were also good for LH and UA...
I believe that AC is also the ONLY carrier left in STAR not offering upgrades... hence the op is probably confused as if he was with any other STAR carrier he would be eligible to do this. |
Originally Posted by Stranger
(Post 8678857)
I first made elite around 97 or so. Must have been before that then?
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Originally Posted by TRAVELSIG
(Post 8677963)
Hi Stranger, back in the 90s, the upgrade certs were also good for LH and UA...
I believe that AC is also the ONLY carrier left in STAR not offering upgrades... hence the op is probably confused as if he was with any other STAR carrier he would be eligible to do this. http://www.united.com/page/article/1,,52232,00.html |
Originally Posted by YEG USER
(Post 8683003)
I thought there were several STAR airlines not participating, including United, which recently opted out.
http://www.united.com/page/article/1,,52232,00.html You can book an upgrade award with these airline partners: Adria Airways, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines Group*, Condor, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines*, Lufthansa*, SWISS, Singapore Airlines**, TAP Portugal, Thai Airways International, United, Air New Zealand |
Originally Posted by TRAVELSIG
(Post 8683608)
From the Miles and More Website,
You can book an upgrade award with these airline partners: Adria Airways, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines Group*, Condor, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines*, Lufthansa*, SWISS, Singapore Airlines**, TAP Portugal, Thai Airways International, United, Air New Zealand There is a nice table on www.staralliance.com that shows the FF programs you can use to upgrade on *A members. |
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