For red-eyes the day before your birthday, but the flight goes through your birthday, does it count?

NOPE

Doing SIN - HKG - CDG on my birthday tonight/today in Y (Q booking class).

Family of 3 got upgraded on the CDG flight to PEY.

Any status with CX, or just with BAEC Bronze?

Then its an operational upgrade.

If its a birthday upgrade, it will only be you, and only if you have CX MPC elite status. BA Bronze won't cut it.

You + 1 as GO earlier this year

My recent experience on a KA flight:

Flew on my exact birthday. Booked in J so was not expecting an upgrade at all, but getting a paper birthday card (which you don't often see nowadays) would be nice.

It turned out that there was no recgonition at all from check in and throughout the flight. After landing I asked the ISM whether they still do birthday cards for MPO members. She said yes and there could even be an upgrade. Then I (shamelessly) replied “Today's my birthday.” She looked genuinely surprised and then scrambled to grab one from the compartment and rushed to get the crew at the front galley to sign it before disembarking.

Oh well. Made it one of the memorable birthday experience for me. Not sure what went wrong here.

I wonder where DOB is stored on your MPO/AM profile. Whenever I make a booking on the CX website, it auto fills all the details except my DOB. Is this even a stored field in their DB?

I am very certain it is. Birthday cannot be changed and therefore needs not be displayed. Name can be changed but not by the member, and is displayed as non-editable.

I wish I would be a MPO elite member.
I will fly CX on my bday, but I'm just OW emerald :(

Sorry, should have been more clear. I have to fill in the DOB everytime I book a flight on the CX website even though I'm logged in. I wasn't sure if that's because my profile hasn't stored the DOB or because MPO doesn't actually keep the DOB in their DB.

It happened to me countless times that KA lost my membership information, and in two extreme cases, my flight segments disappeared from my itineraries.

Once I didn't realize until I didn't receive a lounge invitation. The check-in agent fixed that immediately but my luggage was already sent, and my bag came out with the non-priority bags. There was another time I noticed when she didn't tag first priority. She told me the system didn't show my membership (and she didn't ask even though I was checking in at an F counter :confused:). Since then I made a habit of presenting my card or asking if they had my membership number at checkin.

Have you checked if your AM# is on your BP?

Just checked. It has my correct MPO number but interestingly it showed as AM not the usual GO/SAPPHIRE. My status hasn't changed for years.

Maybe that's why.

Oh... CX's IT again. I took a PEK-HKG flight two days ago, and the PEK lounge agent asked if my friend has an invitation. I said I was GO, and it happened that the lounge invitation showed I was traveling J. The lounge agent typed in my MPC number and confirmed. Both of us got in. I then took a look at my BP. Fortunately all information on my BP was correct with my GO status printed too. There is still room for improvement for CX's IT.

I had not seen this thread before but as a data point my other half and I were both upgraded PEY to J a couple of months ago, on the flight back from LGW. Taking off the day before her birthday and landing on the morning of. She is a DM but the check in staff expressly said it was a birthday upgrade.