Upgrading on AF/CO codeshare thru Paris
May 10, 2000 | 8:57 pm
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Upgrading on AF/CO codeshare thru Paris
I'm flying AF on CO codeshare in a few weeks to get to Vienna. Monday evening flight. Anyone have experience with how full coach is on this flight? Will AF upgrade a Gold if coach is full and Business Class is available?
In any event, I'm prepared with "poor man's business class" - the front row with limitless legroom (but I'd much rather be up front with the hoi polloi).
In any event, I'm prepared with "poor man's business class" - the front row with limitless legroom (but I'd much rather be up front with the hoi polloi).
May 11, 2000 | 1:01 am
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Well, flying the other way around...
I was booked on an AF flight in March as a CO codeshare CDG to IAH. My check-in with AF went ok even though my ticket said CO (in the past... I've found some "codeshare operations" to not be so passenger friendly).
Two hours later, as I tried to enter the jetbridge to board, the gate reader rejected my boarding pass. The gate agt tried it twice, then turned around to her computer to check things out. Her response was "Ohhh ... You've been upgraded to L'Espace127 (Business class)". I figured they were oversold in coach, ad upgraded all the AF eilites needed, then moved to upgrading CO elites (I'm Gold) to handle oversolds. However; during the trip, I walked back thru coach and saw several open seats ... including my original aisle.
I wonder now if...
Even thought my ticket (which was an extremely discounted internet/winter fare of $280 DFW/CDG/DFW) wasn't "upgradeable"; maybe CO purchases so many "biz" and so many "coach" seats on each AF flight; and if after CO has gone thru all upgrade procedures, they uopgrade any elites like they do on a domestic trip ... under the philosophy of "we paid for the seat so we'll put anyone we want in the seats". The service was great and the food was just fantastic !!!!
I was booked on an AF flight in March as a CO codeshare CDG to IAH. My check-in with AF went ok even though my ticket said CO (in the past... I've found some "codeshare operations" to not be so passenger friendly).
Two hours later, as I tried to enter the jetbridge to board, the gate reader rejected my boarding pass. The gate agt tried it twice, then turned around to her computer to check things out. Her response was "Ohhh ... You've been upgraded to L'Espace127 (Business class)". I figured they were oversold in coach, ad upgraded all the AF eilites needed, then moved to upgrading CO elites (I'm Gold) to handle oversolds. However; during the trip, I walked back thru coach and saw several open seats ... including my original aisle.
I wonder now if...
Even thought my ticket (which was an extremely discounted internet/winter fare of $280 DFW/CDG/DFW) wasn't "upgradeable"; maybe CO purchases so many "biz" and so many "coach" seats on each AF flight; and if after CO has gone thru all upgrade procedures, they uopgrade any elites like they do on a domestic trip ... under the philosophy of "we paid for the seat so we'll put anyone we want in the seats". The service was great and the food was just fantastic !!!!
May 11, 2000 | 1:32 am
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Actually, the hoi polloi would be back in steerage, but I'm interested in hearing the answer for future reference.
May 11, 2000 | 3:00 am
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Well, if we're going to be particular here 
, there's no "the" needed when writing "hoi polloi." "hoi" stands for "the" thus "the many" (from Greek) or the common people or masses. Indeed, hoi polloi would be riding in the back, coach.
, there's no "the" needed when writing "hoi polloi." "hoi" stands for "the" thus "the many" (from Greek) or the common people or masses. Indeed, hoi polloi would be riding in the back, coach.
May 11, 2000 | 10:17 am
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Does the hoi polloi come with au jus?
May 12, 2000 | 11:31 am
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Only in BizFirst, but not on NW WBC. 
May 12, 2000 | 11:43 am
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no idea at all, but I recently used points combined with an expensive coach ticket (Grr) and flew business first on continental from ewr to amsterdam and then airfrance business class from paris back to ewr.
Business first was simply awesome. business class on air france kind of sucked. it wasn't that great at all. I flew coach twice last year from iah to cdg and that wasn't much worse. (or rather business wasn't that much better)
brady
Business first was simply awesome. business class on air france kind of sucked. it wasn't that great at all. I flew coach twice last year from iah to cdg and that wasn't much worse. (or rather business wasn't that much better)
brady
May 13, 2000 | 6:14 pm
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You guys are tough . . . that's the last time I use a fancy phrase around here. I wouldn't want to obfuscate my query.
May 13, 2000 | 6:25 pm
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Of course not, elitefrek. We certainly want to be exoteric around here, don't we? 