2008 Elite Upgrades on Sky Team Airlines?
 

Hello all,

I was on a flight today to MCO and I was reading the Sky Magazine and it said for 2008 that Elite Upgrades would be available with all Sky Team airlines. Has anyone else heard anything about this? It gave no further information.

This is great news, since I am GM. Looking forward to potential upgrades on AF and AZ.

Wow...that would be pretty nice. That also would mean more competition for DL folks getting upgraded on DL.

Perhaps (speculating here quite a bit), this is what Jeff was referencing about "DL giving back" that wasn't quite ready for public announcment....hmmm.

Thanks for the heads-up.

More infos plz. What page of Sky? I will look for this today.

Or name of the article/column, since Sky is available online.

I'm assuming it is in the "Letter". I couldn't find it online. And why is it only now being mentioned? We're already halfway through December.

I also looked at the SkyMiles and Medallion Program Updates and it is not mentioned in either of those sections at DL's website.

Anyone flying today that can confirm and maybe post the print...

SU too?
 

And is it on ALL ST's partners. Could this possibly mean SU too? Oh the joy of SVO to OVB up front instead of in the back.

I'm wishful but also jaded forever by the reality that this too might be too good to be true.

Sounds implausible.
 

Dangit, I flew yesterday and didn't take the copy of Sky that was mine to take with me! :)

Frankly, I'm going to call shenanigans on this - I think the OP misread or misunderstood something.

Are there elite upgrades on all SkyTeam airlines? Of course! Just buy a ticket in certain fare classes, then burn some miles.

Are there likely to be paid day-of-departure upgrades on all SkyTeam airlines? Of course not. SkyTeam members' policies are way too divergent for that. Try asking at KLM. You'll be told (as I've been) that you can just buy a business class ticket, if you're so intent on getting into the front cabin!

Are there likely to be complimentary upgrades on all SkyTeam airlines? Even more implausible. Northwest and Continental are the only two I'm aware of that can even manage that across 2 companies.

As it now stands, as a Northwest platinum-and-then-some, I can't upgrade from cheap Northwest fares internationally. And I can't upgrade from cheap fares on Delta and at least some other partners, even domestically. And I don't see that magically changing, unless Northwest and/or Continental (who have some automation and cooperation already) buy all the other members of SkyTeam (who don't). ;)

I took a copy of Sky this weekend. I just looked through it and do not see what the OP is referring to.

Hmmm... pre-april fool's day joke? :o

Oops..I think I read it in Business Traveler magazine.the latest issue. If anyone can get their hands on a copy of that, I don't have the copy anymore. Sorry for the confusion, but I can't remember which one of the two I read it in. I know it was one of the two for a fact!

No way this is true. There would have been huge fanfare and publicity if it were so. It's probably the usual uninformed speculation in travel publications.

Or someone trying to play a joke on the DL forum. OP specifically said he was on a flight and read it in the inflight magazine. Was there also a copy of Business Traveler in the seatback pocket? I can't see intl ST partners offering elite upgrades when DL doesn't even offer such on intl flights.

Not in the most recent Business Traveller (us version). Perhaps in Global Traveler?