Using RUs
Jan 11, 2019, 12:24 pm
#32
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Sun Peaks, Taupo.
Programs: NZ Elite, AC SE100K, Westjet Teal, Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite, Nexus, Global Entry
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Jan 11, 2019, 12:32 pm
#33
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: YYZ/SFO/AKL
Programs: NZ*G, back of the bus UA, corner of the MLL AC.
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Jan 11, 2019, 12:51 pm
#34
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
Posts: 1,218
Last night changed one of my flights coming home from USA. It is in one and a half months. My flight had previously been booked PE with an R upgrade. Call up not expecting any good luck and thought I would have to outright pay for J. Low and behold the flight I wanted to had one R space available - and so I snagged it. Sometimes miracles do happen!
Jan 11, 2019, 1:47 pm
#35
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,115
You forget the vast majority of customers don't call the call centre and wouldn't have a clue in the world what a booking class was, let alone the significance of R class.
Jan 11, 2019, 2:16 pm
#36
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: New Zealand
Programs: NZ Elite, QF Platinum (LTS), VA Platinum
Posts: 1,672
Although interesting I don't think R class changes much for me. Tend to fly the dates I'm booked and so far have been pretty lucky with clearance rates for RU. Then you have those that never use the RUs because they're always flying J anyway.
Jan 11, 2019, 8:19 pm
#37
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
Posts: 1,218
I've always wondered how people on the phones view strange customers like us who ring up and go "right... I'd like to check ALL of the R space on all the USA flights." Do they view us as annoying? Do they like the hunt and like getting us on the phone? I'd love to know, haha.
Jan 11, 2019, 10:42 pm
#39
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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Jan 12, 2019, 3:26 pm
#40
Join Date: May 2008
Location: MSP
Programs: DL Plat, NZ Elite, QF Plat
Posts: 1,776
Yep have just confirmed that is the case. R class has been released for my flight post me putting in the upgrade (and is still available) but the upgrade wasn’t automatically cleared.
Jan 12, 2019, 4:34 pm
#41
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
Posts: 1,218
I almost had that cleared up for me when two days ago I booked a flight in late February out of LAX and I got an R space upgrade to BP. I cannot, at all, believe that no other Elites didn't have upgrades sitting and waiting this close out. Someone must have cancelled their R ticket just in time for me to snag it.
Jan 12, 2019, 5:56 pm
#43
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
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