Question about specific op-up: birthday
 

I have a question on birthday op-up, I've read many times in here that people get op-up on their birthdays.

Now, my question is this, assuming J has seats available, will a Y ticket definitely be op-up when flying on birthday? If that's the case I'll rearrange my future trips on my birthday.

Thanks

to simply state it: no.

cx will not give guaranteed op-ups for birthdays, loyalty, special occasions, etc etc. it's all at their discretion.

Although it's hardly guaranteed, it does happen. In January, a fellow pax in F on 840 HKG-JFK told me that he had been op-upped J to F because it was his birthday. There were plenty of open seats in all classes.

and...there's of course also cases where it does not happen. a few weeks ago I was traveling with some colleagues, one of them on her birthday. I got op-up to F with 1-2 others, while she stayed in J...J is very full while F is not even after the op-up.

Is she a MPC member?

Strange. Did she asked for the opup?

I think she's an MPC member, but not 100% sure. but one other point is - she actually got a bottle of champagne on board from the crew congratulating on her birthday...

Its not official and never has been, but such op ups are totally at the discretion of the ground airport manager on duty, and the cabin you're booked in.

For what it's worth, I just had a flight in business on Dragonair on my birthday and it went without recognition. I'm in AAdvantage not MPC, though.

You should ask for an op-up, they don't check for birthdays for each passenger.

Happy Belated Birthday!

this is interesting, I never knew about this :confused:. I used to get upgrade from J to F like 50%+ of the time on my KA PVG/PEK flights (not now anymore as J is quite empty usually and I'm traveling Y more often on these flights as well).

Rubbish - 10 of Dragonair's 32 planes have a first class section.

There is no need to ask, your birthday is shown on your passport.

My bad, I always see Dragonair aircrafts only having 2 classes.

Still, you will have to ask to be bumped up.

The normal collective wisdom of the people here is that asking for op-ups on CX almost never improves your chances, and very often decreases them.