Using personal connections to get (re)upgraded...
Oct 18, 2006, 12:49 pm
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Originally Posted by theworld
Not exactly au fait with this route, but wouldn't he have been downgraded to WT+ rather than the full form econ?
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Oct 18, 2006, 1:04 pm
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Originally Posted by Land-of-Miles
The new EU regulations mean that compensation is payable for a downgrade, if J and W are full then bumoin someone from W to Y and from J to W surely means 2 lots of compensation rather than just 1 for J to Y. Since we are talking about 2 people here that would be 4x rather than 2x.
Oct 18, 2006, 2:28 pm
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Originally Posted by SchmeckFlyer
So, is anybody on this board "guilty" of using connections to score upgrades?
I have only been guilty once, although it was not really my fault (although I hardly complained of course).
I have only been guilty once, although it was not really my fault (although I hardly complained of course).
Oct 18, 2006, 2:39 pm
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Originally Posted by JSC
A quick call to BA chief Willie Walsh's press officer and a reminder New Star owns shares in BA...
After all, this is not his holding but his clients' holding and he should therefore refuse, or not derive or attempt to derive, any personal benefit from it. Nor should there be any implied threat to sell it (or not increase it) because of their treatment of him; any decision should be solely in their clients' interest.
(But in any case, that's too serious a spin on this, and I don't see how the telegraph can accurately know the specifics of his phone call, so I doubt he'll be getting a telling off from the FSA.)
Oct 19, 2006, 12:30 pm
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Okay, a noobie here--I just want to get this straight.
You can have paid for a CW (business class) seat, and get involuntarily downgraded?
And I suppose any compensation would only be from what you paid for CW far in advance to what the cost is of WT+ (or whatever) at the last minute, which is probably nothing or next to nothing?!
Can they screw one like that who is riding a oneworld business award bucket?
Steve
You can have paid for a CW (business class) seat, and get involuntarily downgraded?
And I suppose any compensation would only be from what you paid for CW far in advance to what the cost is of WT+ (or whatever) at the last minute, which is probably nothing or next to nothing?!Can they screw one like that who is riding a oneworld business award bucket?
Steve
Oct 19, 2006, 12:45 pm
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Originally Posted by steve32
Okay, a noobie here--I just want to get this straight.
You can have paid for a CW (business class) seat, and get involuntarily downgraded? And I suppose any compensation would only be from what you paid for CW far in advance to what the cost is of WT+ (or whatever) at the last minute, which is probably nothing or next to nothing?!
Can they screw one like that who is riding a oneworld business award bucket?
Steve
You can have paid for a CW (business class) seat, and get involuntarily downgraded?
And I suppose any compensation would only be from what you paid for CW far in advance to what the cost is of WT+ (or whatever) at the last minute, which is probably nothing or next to nothing?!Can they screw one like that who is riding a oneworld business award bucket?
Steve