Anybody ever got op-up when flying with children?
Jun 19, 2011, 10:54 am
#1
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Join Date: May 2009
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Anybody ever got op-up when flying with children?
Just wondering will CX discriminate you if you travel with a young child (say 3-12 years old) and you notice that CX bypass you for op-up (you are DM but you never get op-up when flying with 3-12 years old.) I can see that happening, but wondering if anyone actually experienced this.
Jun 19, 2011, 10:57 am
#2
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Portland, OR
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Just wondering will CX discriminate you if you travel with a young child (say 3-12 years old) and you notice that CX bypass you for op-up (you are DM but you never get op-up when flying with 3-12 years old.) I can see that happening, but wondering if anyone actually experienced this.
Jun 19, 2011, 9:20 pm
#4
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Jun 19, 2011, 9:57 pm
#5
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Jun 19, 2011, 10:46 pm
#6
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Hong Kong
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In the end I declined both upgrades and we all travelled in Y.
Jun 19, 2011, 10:55 pm
#7
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In 2009 I was travelling with my wife, daughter and maid (I was alone on a PNR, wife/daughter on another PNR, maid on a 3rd). I had reached some milestone (I don't remember what) and they wanted to upgrade me. I said what's the point in upgrading me alone without my family? Check in agent made a phone call, said they would upgrade wife as well. I asked what I was supposed to do with my 2 year old daughter. They said they don't upgrade kids and she can stay with the maid.
In the end I declined both upgrades and we all travelled in Y.
In the end I declined both upgrades and we all travelled in Y.
Jun 20, 2011, 1:10 am
#8
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: HKG
Programs: CX Diamond, AA Exec Plat, SPG Platinum, Hyatt Diamond
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I would have taken it!! I'm sure your daughter wouldn't have minded!
On another note got upgraded 2 years ago from J to F - we were 4 of us in J (but 1 was infant) but they only offered 1 op-up so I paid fair difference for infant seat and sent my wife & infant to F... it is honestly very difficult for an almost 2 year old infant to sit with someone longhaul in the herringbone configuration...
On another note got upgraded 2 years ago from J to F - we were 4 of us in J (but 1 was infant) but they only offered 1 op-up so I paid fair difference for infant seat and sent my wife & infant to F... it is honestly very difficult for an almost 2 year old infant to sit with someone longhaul in the herringbone configuration...
Jun 20, 2011, 7:11 am
#10
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I'm travelling from KUL-YYZ soon with my wife and 1 yr old daughter on the same PNR, myself a silver and my wife's a green. In my previous flight when travelling by myself to LHR, I have been op-upped on both the KUL-HKG and HKG-KUL legs without any attempts to get bn1 - both legs were late check-ins.
For this trip, I've gotten the bn1 for both KUL-HKG and HKG-YYZ, so we'll see what happens next.
For this trip, I've gotten the bn1 for both KUL-HKG and HKG-YYZ, so we'll see what happens next.
Jun 20, 2011, 7:28 am
#11
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Yes, on MNL-HKG, spouse, 2 year old, and I were all upgraded to J. Our 2 year old was a month shy of 3 (and sitting in his own herringbone seat). That's the only time the whole family was offered. I have been offered upgrades 3 other times when with the family but always only for one person. In each case I passed the offer to the spouse who wasn't interested.
Jun 20, 2011, 5:53 pm
#12
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About 3 years back I (then Gold) was travelling HKG-MNL in redemption J on the same PNR as my wife and her son. I was upgraded to F at the gate, at which point it would have created quite a delay in the boarding to try to reverse it, so I took it and then offered a seat swap to the person who was then in my previously allocated J seat. The cabin crew were fine with that and the person was quite a happy bunny since she had already been op-upped from Y!
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Jun 21, 2011, 4:01 am
#13
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: HKG
Programs: CX, BA
Posts: 239
HKG doesn't op-up small children/infants (quite a number of times, the check-in agent called to check if she could op-up my daughter but to no avail) but you may get lucky at outports. I've found Japan to be most generous.
Jun 21, 2011, 4:07 am
#14
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: HKG
Programs: CX, BA
Posts: 239
As DM, I noticed they won't automatically bypass you but will inform you that there is an upgrade for you only - even on occasions upgrading me would mean leaving my 5 yr old child alone! (just in case anyone is wondering, I've always declined)
Jun 21, 2011, 8:42 am
#15
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: DFW - DL MM/SM, AA 5MM/CK, MR LT Titanium
Posts: 827
We've been upgraded several times traveling on CX - both op-ups and courtesy upgrades - but in the interest of full disclosure the child in question is an 11-year-old EXP (OWE). Clearly, YMMV with a non-status 2-year-old.