So - who got a free upgrade this week?
Oct 11, 2015, 2:56 pm
#226
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Programs: BA Gold (ex-GGL, maybe future Silver), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 6,201
And again! After being upgraded LGW AMS, AMS LGW also scored me an op up at the gate. No idea how or why as they could have moved the curtain to accommodate all in Y.
I'm now really hoping that I haven't used my three lives already this TP year as I have until June and LGW AMS is not as attractive a candidate as LHR KUL in WTP on Friday night!
I'm now really hoping that I haven't used my three lives already this TP year as I have until June and LGW AMS is not as attractive a candidate as LHR KUL in WTP on Friday night!
Oct 11, 2015, 3:00 pm
#227
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,676
And again! After being upgraded LGW AMS, AMS LGW also scored me an op up at the gate. No idea how or why as they could have moved the curtain to accommodate all in Y.
I'm now really hoping that I haven't used my three lives already this TP year as I have until June and LGW AMS is not as attractive a candidate as LHR KUL in WTP on Friday night!
I'm now really hoping that I haven't used my three lives already this TP year as I have until June and LGW AMS is not as attractive a candidate as LHR KUL in WTP on Friday night!
I was also led to believe that curtains are set in London and not changed in the outstation? Or am I mistaken?
Oct 12, 2015, 2:40 am
#228
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Programs: BA Gold (ex-GGL, maybe future Silver), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 6,201
I think you're right on both points, actually. (Well I'm not sure that the '3 lives' thing is actually disproven but there seem to be enough anecdotal evidence to make it look pretty weak - but three times in a week might still be a big ask!)
As for the curtain position, it seems so - I have a back-to-back on Thursday and there are only three rows of CE for that on both legs.
As for the curtain position, it seems so - I have a back-to-back on Thursday and there are only three rows of CE for that on both legs.
Oct 18, 2015, 8:42 am
#230
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: HPN
Posts: 352
Got op-uped from WTP to CW on the 181 (LHR-JFK) yesterday (Oct 17). In fact the new seat assignment on that leg appeared on the app when I went to OLCI for my domestic leg to LHR the day before.
I suspected I might get an op-up because when I selected my seat at T-7 there were only about four left in WTP. The weird thing is that I had changed the date of my return the week before and the 181 was the only flight I could find with WTP still at my original fare.
I suspected I might get an op-up because when I selected my seat at T-7 there were only about four left in WTP. The weird thing is that I had changed the date of my return the week before and the 181 was the only flight I could find with WTP still at my original fare.
Oct 19, 2015, 2:08 am
#231
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Singapore - the hot, little red dot
Programs: BA, SQ
Posts: 861
Finally yesterday I got the beep beep at the gate, WTP to CW, DXB-LHR travelling with the Mrs.
She had already gone through as I was doing a final "pit stop" and I was wondering why she was waving so frantically from the other side of the gate to let me know where she was.
Quite a few couples were upgraded and CW still had quite a few seats left. Thankfully as the two of the three toilets downstairs were out of action....
Excellent end to our week holiday as we got a complimentary limo from the MAS to the airport, got this upgrade and then at T5 the 423 was there so no waiting around for a bus
She had already gone through as I was doing a final "pit stop" and I was wondering why she was waving so frantically from the other side of the gate to let me know where she was.
Quite a few couples were upgraded and CW still had quite a few seats left. Thankfully as the two of the three toilets downstairs were out of action....
Excellent end to our week holiday as we got a complimentary limo from the MAS to the airport, got this upgrade and then at T5 the 423 was there so no waiting around for a bus
Oct 19, 2015, 3:40 am
#233
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,343
Oct 19, 2015, 4:22 am
#235
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 10
Wife and I were booked in WT on the BA 2158 to St Lucia tomorrow. When I tried to change our seats last night I received an error message saying that wasn't possible, but I could change them for the return flight next week.
When we checked in this morning we saw the map of the WTP cabin, and our BP now says World Traveller Plus.
Can't believe that we have got automatically upgraded before OLCI? We haven't received any email or text. Has anyone else experienced that type of upgrade so far?
When we checked in this morning we saw the map of the WTP cabin, and our BP now says World Traveller Plus.
Can't believe that we have got automatically upgraded before OLCI? We haven't received any email or text. Has anyone else experienced that type of upgrade so far?
Oct 19, 2015, 4:38 am
#236
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,676
Wife and I were booked in WT on the BA 2158 to St Lucia tomorrow. When I tried to change our seats last night I received an error message saying that wasn't possible, but I could change them for the return flight next week.
When we checked in this morning we saw the map of the WTP cabin, and our BP now says World Traveller Plus.
Can't believe that we have got automatically upgraded before OLCI? We haven't received any email or text. Has anyone else experienced that type of upgrade so far?
When we checked in this morning we saw the map of the WTP cabin, and our BP now says World Traveller Plus.
Can't believe that we have got automatically upgraded before OLCI? We haven't received any email or text. Has anyone else experienced that type of upgrade so far?
You should get a nice banner in MMB too ("As a valued member of the executive club ...").
There's a computer system which starts work (supposedly) at about 4 days out and continues moving people around until it's satisfied. I've found it actually starts really working at about 4 hours out. I've watched it at work by refreshing the seat map on one trip around that time.
You could see one person moved out, one moved in, a couple moved out, a couple moved in. It was interesting to watch.
Oct 19, 2015, 4:42 am
#237
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,343
Oct 19, 2015, 10:11 am
#240
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Bristol (ex-Londoner)
Programs: BAEC Blue, VS Flying Club
Posts: 231
There's a computer system which starts work (supposedly) at about 4 days out and continues moving people around until it's satisfied. I've found it actually starts really working at about 4 hours out. I've watched it at work by refreshing the seat map on one trip around that time.