Can you upgrade one person on the booking?
May 22, 2022, 2:14 pm
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Can you upgrade one person on the booking?
As per the title, is it possible to upgrade one person on a booking on just one leg? When I book, I'd like to phone up (within 24hrs) and pay the fare difference to upgrade one person from WT to WT+.
I need all 3 people on the same booking so that the other 2 get the baggage benefits from my status.
I need all 3 people on the same booking so that the other 2 get the baggage benefits from my status.
May 22, 2022, 2:18 pm
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No it isn't possible. Everyone on the same booking must be in the same cabin. The only way you could do this is split the booking and then upgrade the one you want - but it sounds like this won't work for you.
May 22, 2022, 2:21 pm
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Unfortunately you would have to split the booking to do this, so the WTP person was on their own. POUGs then typically won't work due to the splitting process. So probably best to think about an AUP at the airport after you have got the other seats sorted. When you do the AUP ask them to show the seat screen and the AUP is set to that seat.
May 23, 2022, 3:31 am
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Just adding my experience of this as I wondered this also. Had a BA holidays booking, I wanted to upgrade but my companion wasn’t bothered. They split the booking and processed the upgrade for me without issue. Companion got a new PNR locator for their own flight. Hotel was still linked to mine.
May 23, 2022, 5:05 am
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Just adding my experience of this as I wondered this also. Had a BA holidays booking, I wanted to upgrade but my companion wasn’t bothered. They split the booking and processed the upgrade for me without issue. Companion got a new PNR locator for their own flight. Hotel was still linked to mine.
Jan 7, 2024, 4:44 am
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Absolutely, splitting an itinerary to do that is very straightforward and usual (be it to upgrade one, to change the itinerary of one, etc). The reason KARFA and cws say that this won't work here is only because the op precisely does not want to split the booking as they want the other passengers to benefit from the extra luggage allowance related to their own status. If the booking is split, that will be lost. It's a bit of a "eat your cake and have it" situation.
Jan 7, 2024, 5:03 am
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The unfortunate answer to this is 'maybe'. If nothing changes, no aircraft swaps etc then there is a chance the assignments might hold. The longer between you splitting the booking and the flight the bigger the risk is
Jan 7, 2024, 5:06 am
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Formally you are at risk of them losing their seat assignments, but they may well stick, particularly if you don't experience any equipment changes, and I would guess even more so if you upgraded with the final 72 hours, the point at which seat selection moves over to the FLY modules. Obviously if they did lose their seat assignments you don't have much scope to challenge that, you would at this point be on a separate booking.
Jan 7, 2024, 6:52 am
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I want to add my recent experience but I have not 100% certainty that it would have worked as I have not gone ahead and done it:
on my last Online Upgrade offer, I had the option to select who I wanted to upgrade out of a 4 people in the same booking and I could have selected to accept the adult offer and not the kids option (intention was to then let my 15yo fly in CE in my upgraded seat whilst me and the younger kids remained in ET) . I considered this as I was evaluating to confirm my status before expiration but as I needed even more TP, I decided to go for a status milestone early in my new TP year.
Is the agreed consensus that I would not have been able to complete my partial upgrade if I had gone ahead?
on my last Online Upgrade offer, I had the option to select who I wanted to upgrade out of a 4 people in the same booking and I could have selected to accept the adult offer and not the kids option (intention was to then let my 15yo fly in CE in my upgraded seat whilst me and the younger kids remained in ET) . I considered this as I was evaluating to confirm my status before expiration but as I needed even more TP, I decided to go for a status milestone early in my new TP year.
Is the agreed consensus that I would not have been able to complete my partial upgrade if I had gone ahead?