Will an upgrade voucher stick if WT+ is added?
Aug 14, 2002, 8:19 am
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Will an upgrade voucher stick if WT+ is added?
I am looking at booking a flight for myself and my wife to San Diego next May. I will fly in CW either with miles or cash+upgrade voucher. At the moment this flight is still just WT/CW/F but once and if it moves to LHR I guess it will get re-configured to WT+ and NCW.
If I book 2 WT tickets now at a meager cost of 280GBP each and use the voucher to put us into CW with 2 assigned seats and the BA re-configure the aircraft will I win and they loose? Or do you think they will bump me down to WT+
If the first option is likely I will use cash+ the voucher, if the second is the likely option then I will use miles.
Nobody at BA reservations can answer this, any ideas or thought?
p.s. If I get bumped I could always ask for COMPENSATION
If I book 2 WT tickets now at a meager cost of 280GBP each and use the voucher to put us into CW with 2 assigned seats and the BA re-configure the aircraft will I win and they loose? Or do you think they will bump me down to WT+
If the first option is likely I will use cash+ the voucher, if the second is the likely option then I will use miles.
Nobody at BA reservations can answer this, any ideas or thought?
p.s. If I get bumped I could always ask for COMPENSATION
Aug 14, 2002, 8:39 am
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The travel agent makes a regular booking in a normal class but gets an authorization code from their EC service center, so once the booking is made you have a regular D class ticket without any real way of tracing it to an upgraded ticket. The upgrade inventory is not linked to award inventory so once it's booked I can't imagine they would be able or allowed to downgrade you.
- booking R class for upgrades to Concorde
- booking A class for upgrades to FIRST
- booking D class for upgrades to Club World & Club Europe
- booking T class for upgrades to World Traveller Plus (where fitted),
[This message has been edited by ScottC (edited 08-14-2002).]
- booking R class for upgrades to Concorde
- booking A class for upgrades to FIRST
- booking D class for upgrades to Club World & Club Europe
- booking T class for upgrades to World Traveller Plus (where fitted),
[This message has been edited by ScottC (edited 08-14-2002).]
Aug 14, 2002, 8:55 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CTEASDEL:
Thanks Scott
So if it is booked in D class then I will get points and miles...... This makes the 280GBP sound very good</font>
Thanks Scott
So if it is booked in D class then I will get points and miles......
This makes the 280GBP sound very good</font>
Aug 14, 2002, 9:01 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
Don't count on it.... BA has split booked class and travel cabin pretty well in their systems...</font>
Don't count on it.... BA has split booked class and travel cabin pretty well in their systems...</font>
Aug 14, 2002, 9:13 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CTEASDEL:
I was going on your last message about the actual booking class being D so their is no way of them telling is is an UG? I have seen before where I book in say J and Fly F my statement reads LHR-XXX C/F and I only get the points for C. Now if the actual booking class is C and the cabin is C then maybe...</font>
I was going on your last message about the actual booking class being D so their is no way of them telling is is an UG? I have seen before where I book in say J and Fly F my statement reads LHR-XXX C/F and I only get the points for C. Now if the actual booking class is C and the cabin is C then maybe...</font>