New policy for paid and miles upgrades (AF/KL) - sept 2017
Dec 25, 2017, 6:22 am
#226
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a friend is taking ORY-RUN tomorrow, V class fare (1200€ ticket). upgrade offer at check in to W 579 € or 96 500 Miles!!! for J: 1650 € and wait for it.... 188 000 miles. is this a joke?? last year same day, the offer he got for business was 300 € (ticket price was 1400€, i don't have fare class). the worst part is that it may have been bought as the offer for J is not available anymore few hours after check in.
this morning, the same crazy offer for business popped out again.
Last edited by newflyer27; Dec 25, 2017 at 6:27 am
Dec 25, 2017, 6:33 pm
#227
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One better burn his FB miles quickly.
Dec 26, 2017, 5:10 am
#228
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Hi,
Another data point: Last week on my KIX-CDG flight, business was offered for (actually not too bad - but I still decided not to take it), 349 Euro. There was no mileage offer (at least not on the website) and since I was connecting from another flight, I only got to the gate about an hour to boarding and they did not want to process any more upgrades. I asked onboard the chef du cabin and she looked at her pad and was given a total of 55000 miles, which for me is crazy for my S subclass Prem Y ticket. I just lived it out in Prem.
Cheers!
Another data point: Last week on my KIX-CDG flight, business was offered for (actually not too bad - but I still decided not to take it), 349 Euro. There was no mileage offer (at least not on the website) and since I was connecting from another flight, I only got to the gate about an hour to boarding and they did not want to process any more upgrades. I asked onboard the chef du cabin and she looked at her pad and was given a total of 55000 miles, which for me is crazy for my S subclass Prem Y ticket. I just lived it out in Prem.
Cheers!
Dec 27, 2017, 7:09 am
#229
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Now this is a p!$$take. It would have been cheaper for me to pay the advertised price at the time of booking. This is NOT exceptional AF, get a grip. The P cabin is currently empty (or it was when I checked this morning) so there's a P cabin FA without work. Make it worth my while FFS.
Dec 27, 2017, 12:14 pm
#230
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Now this is a p!$$take. It would have been cheaper for me to pay the advertised price at the time of booking. This is NOT exceptional AF, get a grip. The P cabin is currently empty (or it was when I checked this morning) so there's a P cabin FA without work. Make it worth my while FFS.
Dec 28, 2017, 5:29 am
#231
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Dec 28, 2017, 5:49 am
#232
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Edit: moot anyway as the aircraft switched to 777-200ER. Hope nobody took up the offer!
Last edited by rosensfole; Dec 29, 2017 at 5:26 am
Dec 30, 2017, 5:09 pm
#233
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Pretty good price for the distance and since I'm on a award ticket in Y. Would have taken it straight away if it wasn't for a NEV (btw, what are they still doing on NRT ???)
Jan 4, 2018, 2:46 am
#234
Join Date: May 2017
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I am very annoyed. I received an email yesterday morning at 05:16 offering me an exceptional upgrade on my flight tomorrow, MAN-BLR. By the time I had woken up, the offer had disappeared and the Plat line had no knowledge of it (or upgrade availability for that matter). I don't get to post whatever the (possibly ludicrous) W-J upgrade offer was, dammit. The price difference between W and J was about Ł300 for the return trip and I took that when I booked the flights, thinking I was unlikely to get anything as good as that as an upgrade offer...
Jan 4, 2018, 3:27 am
#235
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I am very annoyed. I received an email yesterday morning at 05:16 offering me an exceptional upgrade on my flight tomorrow, MAN-BLR. By the time I had woken up, the offer had disappeared and the Plat line had no knowledge of it (or upgrade availability for that matter). I don't get to post whatever the (possibly ludicrous) W-J upgrade offer was, dammit. The price difference between W and J was about Ł300 for the return trip and I took that when I booked the flights, thinking I was unlikely to get anything as good as that as an upgrade offer...
You purchased a J ticket according to the text.
What exceptional offer did you receive? from J to P, I assume.
Jan 4, 2018, 6:48 am
#236
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I am already in J for the return, for a price differential that seems quite decent compared to some of the upgrade offers on this thread.
Jan 4, 2018, 12:52 pm
#237
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I am very annoyed. I received an email yesterday morning at 05:16 offering me an exceptional upgrade on my flight tomorrow, MAN-BLR. By the time I had woken up, the offer had disappeared and the Plat line had no knowledge of it (or upgrade availability for that matter). I don't get to post whatever the (possibly ludicrous) W-J upgrade offer was, dammit. The price difference between W and J was about Ł300 for the return trip and I took that when I booked the flights, thinking I was unlikely to get anything as good as that as an upgrade offer...
Jan 4, 2018, 5:24 pm
#238
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Latest experience in this thread with upgrades is that the prices are oftenly exorbant regardless of the price differential of the ticket at booking. I've been in similar situation, having W fare, and managed to catch that Z fare opened up and upgraded it as a flight change for a decent price (incl. the change fee).
Jan 4, 2018, 10:22 pm
#239
Join Date: May 2017
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Thanks - I have tried that. I suspect that I am a 'FlyBe' codeshare victim; online check-in rarely works, and perhaps also upgrade opportunities cannot be realised, even if they are on a later AF leg. I will enquire again in the lounge at CDG if there is time, if only to get an amusing figure to post here.