So - who got a free upgrade this week?
Jun 28, 2015, 3:23 pm
#106
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: London, Sth Africa or LAS
Programs: VS Silver, BA Blue - finally; but hotels.com Gold :)
Posts: 1,858
I abdicated a "throne" on that very flight, the B one.
Jun 30, 2015, 9:10 am
#108
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
Isn't that the entire province they're talking about?
Back on the topic: There's nothing quite so tantalising as being upgraded on DUR-JNB, because it always leaves you wondering for a few hours whether the same magic might happen on JNB-LHR. (It never does. IME.)
Back on the topic: There's nothing quite so tantalising as being upgraded on DUR-JNB, because it always leaves you wondering for a few hours whether the same magic might happen on JNB-LHR. (It never does. IME.)
Jun 30, 2015, 9:24 am
#109
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Wedged somewhere between BTS and VIE ✈
Programs: Star Alliance Gold (A3 Gold), Oneworld Emerald (BA Gold), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 6,338
I'd be interested to know if any BAEC Golds have been upgraded on AA or US flights, or do they always fill their premium seats with their own status passengers?
Jun 30, 2015, 9:29 am
#110
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: CBG
Programs: BAEC Silver; M&M FT
Posts: 233
I've been upgraded to First as a BAEC Silver on US recently; only short hop from BOS-PHL though. It was a "spontaneous" upgrade by the agent at the gate during boarding - no lists/screens involved etc
Jun 30, 2015, 9:34 am
#111
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Berlin
Programs: BAEC; LH M&M; HH Diamond
Posts: 814
Both MrsAITF (Silver) and I were upgraded on an AA DFW-LHR in January this year from J to F. Very glad about this because we got flat beds instead of angle-flat (which we had been dreading). There were also other BAECs who had been upgraded on that flight.
Jun 30, 2015, 10:59 am
#113
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Glasgow
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 533
Jun 30, 2015, 11:33 am
#115
Join Date: Aug 2006
Programs: BAEC Gold/GGL, IHG Diamond AMB
Posts: 1,074
mrs our_kid and I both upgraded Y>J on the 77W MIA-LHR - super cheap O Class tickets too. We were delighted!
Jun 30, 2015, 12:47 pm
#116
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: NW London and NW Sydney
Programs: BA Diamond, Hilton Bronze, A3 Diamond, IHG *G
Posts: 6,344
My wife (Blue) and I (Silver) were upgraded from W to J on overnight DXB-LHR a few days ago.
I don't know if this had anything to do with it but we had a separate ticket to arrive in DXB and we were checked-in by the other OW airline at T-36 (ie. before OLCI was available).
We had chosen seats at the time of booking. Also, we would have booked Y but W was cheaper for some reason, so I'm going to treat this as as a double upgrade
(An unaccompanied minor, about 15 years old was also upgraded to J on the same flight. Perhaps he had status.)
I don't know if this had anything to do with it but we had a separate ticket to arrive in DXB and we were checked-in by the other OW airline at T-36 (ie. before OLCI was available).
We had chosen seats at the time of booking. Also, we would have booked Y but W was cheaper for some reason, so I'm going to treat this as as a double upgrade
(An unaccompanied minor, about 15 years old was also upgraded to J on the same flight. Perhaps he had status.)
Jun 30, 2015, 2:55 pm
#118
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Boston, MA
Programs: AA Million Miler, Mosaic, Delta Platinum
Posts: 1,561
Jun 30, 2015, 6:44 pm
#120
Join Date: Dec 2013
Programs: BA GCH
Posts: 89
I've been bumped up from WT+ to J twice in the past month(!); both to Canada (Vancouver & Montreal) - for both my return flights were already processed as avios upgrades to J. Check in was usually 24hrs on the dot along with mobile boarding pass.
I noticed on the last, to Montreal, looking at the app 2hrs before departure I was bouncing around on a new seat the CW cabin (I already had my mobile boarding pass for WT+ - so made a quick screen grabs to prove if later downgraded). Vancouver, the UG was already applied when I went to check-in.
I'm silver. Last time I was UG was 7yrs ago while silver and flying BA to Auckland (Via QF via LAX) on the QF flight from W to J.
I noticed on the last, to Montreal, looking at the app 2hrs before departure I was bouncing around on a new seat the CW cabin (I already had my mobile boarding pass for WT+ - so made a quick screen grabs to prove if later downgraded). Vancouver, the UG was already applied when I went to check-in.
I'm silver. Last time I was UG was 7yrs ago while silver and flying BA to Auckland (Via QF via LAX) on the QF flight from W to J.