Improvements to Gold Upgrade Voucher bookings
Jun 29, 2019, 12:10 am
#16
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Is this just for revenue bookings or can you upgrade Avios bookings? I have a GUF that I’m planning to use later in the year but have an itinerary that would very much benefit from this!
Jun 29, 2019, 1:18 am
#17
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Genuine enhancement ^
Jun 29, 2019, 1:24 am
#18
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Yes. I used a Joker to release LHR-BOS reward availability in F. I booked via the GGL team at the end of May.
Jun 29, 2019, 1:33 am
#20
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And the best answer I can think of is that it may be a trial and so they want to be able to remove it should it go Pete Tong. But they could have done that by announcing it as a 2 month promotion and if all goes well get a second load of goodwill with the announcement "By popular request...."
Jun 29, 2019, 1:35 am
#21
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Hold on. Isn't one of the benefits with a TA that the upgraded class is put into a revenue bucket. So you would earn the upgraded class' TP and Avios? Will this change allow something similar to be done directly with BA?
Jun 29, 2019, 1:43 am
#22
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The closure of the loophole and this policy change may, indeed, have some connection.
Jun 29, 2019, 1:52 am
#23
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And the best answer I can think of is that it may be a trial and so they want to be able to remove it should it go Pete Tong. But they could have done that by announcing it as a 2 month promotion and if all goes well get a second load of goodwill with the announcement "By popular request...."
Having said that, they knew exactly what I was talking about and said they’d already had a good response.
Jul 1, 2019, 3:28 am
#25
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Confirmed on @Raffles blog this morning, with sources being "BA Staff".
I got to 1600 TPs early this year, and only have about 250TP-worth booked for the rest of the year, but there's a 50-50 chance of a NY trip in October and now this carrot dangling... I thought I was done with TP runs for this year!
I got to 1600 TPs early this year, and only have about 250TP-worth booked for the rest of the year, but there's a 50-50 chance of a NY trip in October and now this carrot dangling... I thought I was done with TP runs for this year!
Jul 1, 2019, 3:39 am
#26
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Confirmed on @Raffles blog this morning, with sources being "BA Staff".
Jul 1, 2019, 4:34 am
#28
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Jul 1, 2019, 4:45 am
#29
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Jul 1, 2019, 4:49 am
#30
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I put my size 10 glove on my size 12 keyboard (or something like that...)