How many times have you been upgraded on AF/KL ?
Aug 23, 2019, 12:40 pm
#796
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Paris, France
Programs: AF/KL Flying Blue Platinum for life/Club2000 Ultimate, Accor ALL Diamond
Posts: 21,935
I've been upgraded from Eco (light fare) to Business this month on a CDG-LED flight on AF (my electronic boarding pass was updated while I was sipping cocktails at the 2E - L gates lounge :-) ).
It surprised me since there were still available seats in Y after boarding was complete.
It surprised me since there were still available seats in Y after boarding was complete.
Something else questioned me: when CI on line, the day before departure, I was proposed a 109€ upgrade to J while my friend I was traveling with (on a different booking reference) was proposed a 509€ upgrade for the same seat (we both obtained our Gold status at the same time and usually travel together, so same flyer profiles). Any idea why such a difference?
But 109 EUR for you was great for such a long medium-haul flight. ^
Aug 23, 2019, 2:32 pm
#797
Join Date: Apr 2016
Posts: 1,885
I am DL GM and had an interesting experience on AF a few weeks ago on an intra-EU flight. Shortly after takeoff, the purser comes to me (I am in the first row of Y), thanks me for my elite+ status on Delta and flying with AF, apologizes that there are no extra exit row seats or they would move me to one, so she offers to move me one row ahead into J so I can at least have a meal. I know onboard upgrades on DL are forbidden, so I thought it very strange, but I wasn't going to turn it down. Is this common practice on AF?
Aug 23, 2019, 2:41 pm
#798
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Paris, France
Programs: AF/KL Flying Blue Platinum for life/Club2000 Ultimate, Accor ALL Diamond
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Aug 29, 2019, 4:17 am
#800
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: Flying Blue, Diamond Club
Posts: 782
So far, among a dozen of flights this year, 2 upgrades:
* AMS-STR, award flight - got the C meal also, unlike many other upgraded pax who got the Y snack.
* CDG-DXB, directly to J from cheap Y ticket.
* AMS-STR, award flight - got the C meal also, unlike many other upgraded pax who got the Y snack.
* CDG-DXB, directly to J from cheap Y ticket.
Aug 30, 2019, 1:49 am
#803
Join Date: May 2009
Location: EDI
Programs: FB Plat, BA Bronze, Hotels.com
Posts: 400
Two in last 4 months.
JFK toto CDA on a KL ticket where there were about 5 people board before me and I was only person in SkyPriority Zone
EDI to AMS - only to Economy Comfort, free upgraded seat choice in App day before flying. Makes a change from other recent in app offers such as taking a 3rd hold case for £178 when I'm flying hand luggage only
JFK toto CDA on a KL ticket where there were about 5 people board before me and I was only person in SkyPriority Zone
EDI to AMS - only to Economy Comfort, free upgraded seat choice in App day before flying. Makes a change from other recent in app offers such as taking a 3rd hold case for £178 when I'm flying hand luggage only
Aug 30, 2019, 2:06 am
#804
Join Date: May 2015
Location: RBA / TBS
Programs: AF Gold / Accor Gold / Hilton Diamond / TP Silver / A3 Gold
Posts: 2,754
WAW-AMS last week , booked in Y
upgraded at gate because Y was full . Only two paxs flying to ORD paid for J , the rest from Y
Got J meal while others received ameal sandwich
upgraded at gate because Y was full . Only two paxs flying to ORD paid for J , the rest from Y
Got J meal while others received a
Last edited by fifty_two; Aug 30, 2019 at 2:28 am
Sep 1, 2019, 12:46 pm
#806
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: VIE/PRG
Programs: FB Platinum, Marriott Platinum Elite
Posts: 1,592
Nothing this year yet but got some CDG-PRG op ups and GOT-AMS once with Y service tho. Good old days are gone when I scored ugprade to UD on HKG-AMS. On partner airline with KL STE+ I only got AM on MEX-AMS and FCO-PRG on AZ. I just found myself in a state of mind where I book J directly I am not disappointed then...
I am not disappointed then...
Sep 1, 2019, 10:55 pm
#807
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: France
Programs: National EE, Flying Blue/SPG/Sixt platinum, Hertz PC, Club Carlsson, Best Western Diamond, IHG
Posts: 50
Most of them with a status, mainly Gold, 3 years as Platinum recently and will be back Platinum this week but never upgraded (even when I flew the day of my birthday)...
Just have a very decent price (10k miles) for upgrade of my wife on a LAX-CDG flight from Premium Eco low fare to Business at the airport.
Sep 2, 2019, 2:45 am
#808
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Netherlands
Programs: KL Platinum; A3 Gold
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Got my first op-up in years a couple of weeks back, on a packed AMS-DUB flight. They had been looking for €149 for the upgrade during OLCI, but proceeded to seat me in a row with someone else - this was an Embraer so no empty middle seat; I nipped back one row to 2F (seems to be the seat I end up in always with AFKL lately ) after boarding was announced as complete, as 2D/F was the only unoccupied row in the J cabin (which was only 2 rows). I wonder why their seating selection during op-up would do that...
2D was completely wet, by the way, with moisture that appeared to have leaked from the air vents earlier.
) after boarding was announced as complete, as 2D/F was the only unoccupied row in the J cabin (which was only 2 rows). I wonder why their seating selection during op-up would do that...2D was completely wet, by the way, with moisture that appeared to have leaked from the air vents earlier.
Last edited by irishguy28; Sep 2, 2019 at 2:51 am
Sep 2, 2019, 6:13 am
#810
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: NE England
Programs: BA, KLM
Posts: 84
When I was Platinum about 10 years ago I was upgraded lots of times between AMS and MUC, and then I was flying to Cape Town on my own money and not a sniff then; oh how I would have traded those 10-15 European upgrades for a single AMS- Cape Town upgrade!!
Last edited by Dougy Giro; Oct 2, 2019 at 3:19 am