Is £69 Club Europe upgrade flexible?
Oct 10, 2013, 5:18 am
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Is £69 Club Europe upgrade flexible?
Quick question before I make a Euro Traveller booking with the intention of utilising the £69 CE upgrade offer (if it comes):
Does upgrading in this way still offer the same flexibility as a regular CE booking, or are you stuck on the flight of the original booking?
Thanks in advance!
Does upgrading in this way still offer the same flexibility as a regular CE booking, or are you stuck on the flight of the original booking?
Thanks in advance!
Oct 10, 2013, 5:41 am
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Oct 10, 2013, 6:22 am
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Oct 10, 2013, 6:36 am
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LTN Phobia has posted a couple of times about this: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/20143648-post12.html and http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/21123327-post7.html.
Last edited by Globaliser; Oct 10, 2013 at 6:45 am
Oct 10, 2013, 6:41 am
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CE booking is not automatically flexible.
CE, like ET, have flexible and non-flexible ticket version.
A cheap upgrade gets you to a non-flexible CE ticket versions.
Several postered in the past have been caught out when they upgrade their flexible ET ticket. Being a cheap upgrade, it was only upgraded to a non-flexible CE ticket.
This is why some corporates prohibit employees from upgrading their tickets on a personal basis.
CE, like ET, have flexible and non-flexible ticket version.
A cheap upgrade gets you to a non-flexible CE ticket versions.
Several postered in the past have been caught out when they upgrade their flexible ET ticket. Being a cheap upgrade, it was only upgraded to a non-flexible CE ticket.
This is why some corporates prohibit employees from upgrading their tickets on a personal basis.
Oct 11, 2013, 11:24 am
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I had a job in AMS earlier this year and used the POUG just before checking in online. I then checked in online for the evening AMS-LGW the next day. As it happened, the job finished earlier than expected so I pitched up at AMS facing a long sit in the lounge drinking cup-a-soup. I asked very nicely at the ticket desk expecting the answer "No", if I could switch to the earlier AMS-LCY flight and was pleasantly surprised that they said "No problem". Took this flight instead and the next day I recieved the full Club Europe TPs, Avios and cabin bonus on my account.
Big thumbs up to the outstation staff at AMS.
Big thumbs up to the outstation staff at AMS.
Oct 11, 2013, 11:38 am
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Oct 11, 2013, 1:18 pm
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I'm glad to hear that others have had better luck, but in my case, POUG'ed tickets have always become completely non-changeable and non-refundable. I very much believe that this is sill the official rule so I wonder if the happier-endings mentioned above might have been due to agents going somewhat out of their way to override a system which restricts the ticket? I certainly would not count on such flexibility in any case.
Oct 11, 2013, 1:23 pm
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I once upgraded from J to F, on what was a company TA ticket. I needed to keep the flexibility for personal reasons, so was worried. I do think ba,com said the ticket would not be flexible afterwards.
I called the company TA, who confirmed the ticket would still be flexible, although not sure he was correct....
I did not need to change the inbound sector in the end, so do not know what would have happened if I had tried to change.
I called the company TA, who confirmed the ticket would still be flexible, although not sure he was correct....
I did not need to change the inbound sector in the end, so do not know what would have happened if I had tried to change.
