Originally Posted by LondonAussie (Post 34397899)

I too was under the impression op-up's only happened after check-in closed.

I've had maybe 2 or 3 op-up's with BA and IB, all done at the gate upon boarding. One time on IB the agent rather dramatically ripped up my boarding pass without saying anything, so for a few seconds I thought I was being offloaded and denied boarding until she finally said I'd been upgraded and handed me a new boarding pass!

With Qantas upgrades would occasionally happen in the lounge, names would be called over the PA to come see staff at the service desk.

Originally Posted by sammyg901 (Post 34413493)

I suspect that the DFW A380 will be pretty good for upgrades over the next few weeks. JFK always is around this time of year - business travel dips and those CW suite 777s (as the Hi-J 747s were before them) aren't really the ideal config. BA happy to oversell WT & WT+ and roll forward. A banner did used to appear in OCLI if they'd processed it in advance

Originally Posted by testycal (Post 34414484)

If this was indeed an incentive for my wife and daughter I will plan a TP tier run for them to achieve another 90 TP to allow both of them to achieve Silver. They received 360 from the round trip with the WC upgrade leaving the choice quite easy for me to arrange their TP run.