Upgrading long-haul flight using avios and/or cash
Jan 8, 2014, 11:47 am
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Upgrading long-haul flight using avios and/or cash
Hi,
Best wishes for this new year to all FT'ers first of all !
I have a quick question for which I can only find partial answer on this forum. I will be travelling with some friends from LAX to LHR on the 388 next march, in WT. I managed to secure emergency exit seats on row 20 for all 3 of us but was wonderning about buying a "last minute upgrade" to WT+, by phoning the gold line a few days before or maybe at the airport.
IF I manage to upgrade using cash to WT+, can I then use some avios to upgrade to CW, considering there is enough availability indeed ? The avios rate for an upgrade from WT+ to CW is 12500 IIRC...
I managed to upgrade my last TATL flight; booked in WT+ to CW using 12500 avios each way, but I initially paid 2800 Euros for the flight... which is not the case here.
Thanks for your help !
Best wishes for this new year to all FT'ers first of all !
I have a quick question for which I can only find partial answer on this forum. I will be travelling with some friends from LAX to LHR on the 388 next march, in WT. I managed to secure emergency exit seats on row 20 for all 3 of us but was wonderning about buying a "last minute upgrade" to WT+, by phoning the gold line a few days before or maybe at the airport.
IF I manage to upgrade using cash to WT+, can I then use some avios to upgrade to CW, considering there is enough availability indeed ? The avios rate for an upgrade from WT+ to CW is 12500 IIRC...
I managed to upgrade my last TATL flight; booked in WT+ to CW using 12500 avios each way, but I initially paid 2800 Euros for the flight... which is not the case here.
Thanks for your help !
Jan 8, 2014, 11:54 am
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If you upgrade to WT+ by paying the (usually high) fare difference then you could indeed UuA to CW if it became available.
If you take advantage of a cheap upgrade either through MMB or at the airport, then you should be put into a class that does not allow UuA, so you can't basically get a cheap CW ticket for a few hundred quid and some Avios.
If you take advantage of a cheap upgrade either through MMB or at the airport, then you should be put into a class that does not allow UuA, so you can't basically get a cheap CW ticket for a few hundred quid and some Avios.
Jan 8, 2014, 12:15 pm
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windowontheaisle was referring to the fact that POUG will upgrade you into a fare class that is not further upgradeable (P class).
See for example:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ade-avios.html
See for example:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ade-avios.html
Jan 8, 2014, 12:31 pm
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Thanks everyone for the answers.
Travelling Ex-ORY (i.e not ex-LHR), I cannot use MMB to get a quote to upgrade my flights. But if I try to "simulate" doing a new booking on BA for my dates of travel with a return in WT+, the price is about 600 Euros more as it books into W so that's a no go... Too bad I am not travelling back a couple of days later, as there is availability in T for ony 200 Euros extra...
Cheers,
Travelling Ex-ORY (i.e not ex-LHR), I cannot use MMB to get a quote to upgrade my flights. But if I try to "simulate" doing a new booking on BA for my dates of travel with a return in WT+, the price is about 600 Euros more as it books into W so that's a no go... Too bad I am not travelling back a couple of days later, as there is availability in T for ony 200 Euros extra...
Cheers,